I am so sorry to hear you haven't been feeling well.  Thanks for the compliment and no worries on watching the videos, take as long as you need... they aren't going anywhere.  I understand sometimes we have rough times and don't feel well.  I haven't been feeling well and haven't made too many videos recently, a few yarn haul unboxing and I made a short less than 5min slideshow showing many of the blankets I've made over the years.  I hope you feel better soon.  Gentle hugs.

Joanne Hiller thanks yea, I finished my physical therapy session today and I hate having arthritis as well... it sucks.  The doctor's keep changing their minds as to what I have but I still don't feel well.

Here is a link using that block stitch to make a baby blanket but using it in motifs, very pretty and less gaps: https://thecrochetcrowd.com/crochet-modern-baby-granny-blanket-pattern/

Joanne Hiller I forgot to mention...I have made 2 blankets with that stitch I first used a Mary Maxim kit but I modified it a bit.  I gave that one away as a present (used Bernat Pop! yarn) and the other one I gave to a friend as their wedding present (green one using Caron Ombre jumbo yarn).  The third one I'm working on is that modern granny pattern but I want to try to figure out or try a pattern for it that has less gaps.

https://youtu.be/cIsIcPgkLEo?si=D4K9yaBE9zCYT1ao

Joanne Hiller You're welcome.  I hope your aquatic aerobics class went well. I hope to feel better and have more energy so I can start going to classes like those.  I saw a very nice post today on my YouTube feed with this stitch, theirs looks like it has less gaps than the pattern below from the Crochet crowd and they also used it to make a hexi cardi which I thought looked sooo pretty!! I haven't watched the videos yet but here are the links below.  These YouTube channels are new to me too so not sure about the quality of their videos.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=051xIu800AA&t=11s

Hexi cardi in modern granny stitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKoT45NXxrY&t=2s

hexagon style blanket with this stitch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGcIaM9nKzU

The Crochet crowd has a free ebook all filled with different Modern granny square blanket stitch patterns. https://thecrochetcrowd.com/crochet-mg-modern-granny-patterns-ebook-jeanne-steinhilber/

I have a pencil grip and my hand doesn't touch the metal tip it's lower on the plastic handle.  The metal Susan bate hooks I have are very old and I haven't used them in more than 15 years and I never had that happen to me.  With the handle I have had a bit of peel and the Susan Bates name on the plastic rub off a bit.  Also my hands tend to be very very dry too so I've never had issues of any hook colors rubbing off on me. I did have that happen with the blue yarn from an O-go Peacock colorway.

Joanne Hiller You're welcome. This one is made in a rectangle and center out...but I'm sure you can make it row by row instead.  Here is the link to the video tutorial of the blanket I was talking about above: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glhZISlucTU&t=1s

very pretty it looks like the brick or block stitch, sometimes also called Modern granny. I have seen it worked center out in a square. The Crochet crowd - Jeanine has a free pattern I believe which is the one I'm doing with blue and yellow yarn.  This one looks like it's done in rows, one row of four double crochets and the following row is maybe a chain 3 or chain 4 and a single crochet for the whole row across. 3 rows of Single crochets around the whole blanket for the border.

Let me know if you need the links to the other sites, usually what I do is I type the product name in Google and then I click on the shopping tab to find the cheapest prices of the yarn or product.