Yes, do a scarf first. Something you won't get attached to when you make your first mistakes. In my experience, the following are challenges to a first time knitter:
- casting on (why is the start so hard to get right?) - keeping a uniform tension (practice, practice) - knitting on four needles (socks & mittens, etc. However, knitting on an appropriate sized circular needle isn't difficult) - taking back after you've made a mistake (or worse, dropped a stitch) and then fixing it - figuring out the pattern shorthand & translating it into what you do with the yarn - knitting with tiny and fancy yarns
Yes, I knit; although I haven't done anything other than make patterns for race29irl in a long while.
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- casting on (why is the start so hard to get right?)
- keeping a uniform tension (practice, practice)
- knitting on four needles (socks & mittens, etc. However, knitting on an appropriate sized circular needle isn't difficult)
- taking back after you've made a mistake (or worse, dropped a stitch) and then fixing it
- figuring out the pattern shorthand & translating it into what you do with the yarn
- knitting with tiny and fancy yarns
Yes, I knit; although I haven't done anything other than make patterns for