craftgrrl | loopy stitch thing

I was searching for a photo of a stitch that I am madly in love with. I saw it on a shawl a while back, and some people showed me stitches CLOSE to what it was, but not quite it... and then I forgot about it for a while, until there was a girl in class sitting in front of me with a hat made of this stitch, so now I've just got to know. Some people said it's made with a crazy daisy tool or something? But I feel like there's got to be a way to do this by hand! I couldn't find photos of it, which is weird, since I've been seeing this stitch a lot lately.. It looks pretty much like this:

They are ALL loops. None of these 'petal' type things are made with chains. It's just loop after loop connected to more loops and more loops here and there, and I have tried a bunch of random things crocheting and just can't figure it out. I'm going crazy, lol.

But also, I also found some other cool crochet things which I thought you guys might be interested in. :)