I taught myself to crochet recently

with this book: The Happy Hooker and help from my mom, Diane. This book is chock full of great projects, as well as excellent tutorials and how to's. I love Bust Mag Editor Deb Stoller's voice - clear, concise and totally saucy and witty. She's a pistol! I used her first book Stitch 'N Bitch to get over my inability to move past knit squares. And the rest was knitting history.