IAWTC. This is exactly what I did when I was starting. Just trying one bit, ripping out, and practicing again.
I said somewhere, once I'd finished my first scarf, that if you counted just the sheer knitting I'd done (and not all the ripping back) I had actually knit about three or four scarves. That is the Way Of Knitting. Keep going, be forgiving with yourself and you'll get there!
(Oh, and cables are just like ribs, only you swap places with the stitches and knit across, and voila! Cable! I held off of them for ages because I thought they'd be totally hard, and they are my favorite thing now, because they're so simple and they look so complicated. The only challenge is paying attention to whether you're making the ribs cross right over left or left over right. But they are FUN.)
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Date: 2008-08-16 02:54 pm (UTC)I said somewhere, once I'd finished my first scarf, that if you counted just the sheer knitting I'd done (and not all the ripping back) I had actually knit about three or four scarves. That is the Way Of Knitting. Keep going, be forgiving with yourself and you'll get there!
(Oh, and cables are just like ribs, only you swap places with the stitches and knit across, and voila! Cable! I held off of them for ages because I thought they'd be totally hard, and they are my favorite thing now, because they're so simple and they look so complicated. The only challenge is paying attention to whether you're making the ribs cross right over left or left over right. But they are FUN.)