Learning to Crochet

Hey everyone! I just wanted to show you a bit of learning progress. In my last (and first, eek!) Friday Favourites I said how much I wanted to learn to crochet and make a granny square blankets and cover my house in them. Well I decided to do something about my lack of knowledge in the crochet hook and chose to phone a friend. She brought over her crochet book and herself, we sat down on my bed and slowly started to crochet. I was quite literally all fingers and thumbs for a bit, but once I got the position I was crocheting away. When we're in the same room we both turn into utter chatterboxes, I almost lost where I was several times due to talking about Norwegians.
So the crochet/blob/circle thing on the left was my first attempt, whilst chatting and learning what 3ch 1tr ch ss and mc meant in the crochet world. It is very loose and doesn't look like a square at all, not in the slightest, but I'm pretty proud that it looks like a piece of crochet nonetheless. The one on the right was done at 1am whilst FaceTimeing my delicious boyfriend - he kept laughing at the concentration on my face, I kinda do the whole sticky out tongue thing when I'm making stuff. With my second attempt I used a smaller hook (4mm instead of 4.5mm) and pulled the wool tighter so it wouldn't be so floppy. I also used a reference from ♥elycia's new granny square project (she has posted more, eeee!) to increase the amount of stitches from 2 triple crochet (tr) to 3tr, and 6tr on a corner which gives it better shape. Sheesh I'm talking like I know what all this means, hah. Basically I've added more stitches to make it sturdier and more.. wholesome. A wholesome granny square!
Anyway, I'm really pleased with my progress and hope to get even better, I'm still not sure how to hide all my loose endy bits, any suggestions?
I'm going out today to stock up on wools, as I used up a lot of mine in another project. I need to buy a massive batch of white wool for the surrounding colour on all the granny squares. Eeep, such excite, very craft, many squares.

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