My mother used to do Crochet.
Yes making things from loops of yarn or strands of other materials using a hook! Its fun but I feel it can be tedious. 
Yes I believe I tried learning to Crochet once, but I probably got bored after a couple days.
I always thought it was the same as knitting, but its not. When you corchet you finish the stich before doing the next one. When you knit your keeping several stitches unfinished at a time. 
Ineresting,  I believe it involved a different yarn too, and only a needle.  right?
Yes chrochet is done with a hook why knitting is done with one or two needles! They can be made of wood, plastic, or metal!
Any idea where crochet originated?
crochet" subsequently designating both a specific type of fabric and the hooked needle used to produce it. Although the fabric is not known to be crochet in the present sense, a genealogical relationship between the techniques sharing that name appears likely.
Origins.
Knitted textiles survive from early periods, but the first substantive evidence of crocheted fabric relates to its appearance in Europe during the 19th century. Earlier work identified as crochet was commonly made by nålebinding, a different looped yarn technique.
The first known published instructions for crochet
Crochet
Crochet (; ) is a process of creating fabric by interlocking loops of yarn, thread, or strands of other materials using a crochet hook. The name is derived from the French term "crochet", meaning 'small hook'. These are made of materials such as metal, wood, or plastic and are manufactured commercially and produced in artisan workshops. The salient difference between crochet and knitting, beyond the implements used for their production, is that each stitch in crochet is completed before the next one is begun