Q: Dude. I screwed up...
A: Easy to fix! You can always undo a row and start it over, as long as you pay attention to the stitches. If you missed a stitch, called "dropping" a stitch, you can get instructions for how to pick it back up here.
Q: How do I make a striped scarf?
A: Making stripes, or just randomly switching colors as you please, is way easy: just tie the new yarn onto the old one. To hide the knot, tie the yarns together at the beginning or end of a row, then you can start the new row with the new color.
Q: What's the difference between knit and crochet?
A: Crochet uses a hook instead of needles, and works by making chains of loops. There are a lot of really strange crochet patterns out there...
Knit for a good cause!
Warm Up America is a group that is knitting afghans for people in need all over America. All you have to do is knit a rectangle and send it to them, and the group will sew together everyone's rectangles into hundreds of patchwork afghans!
Resources
There are bazillions of websites where you can get free patterns, knitting help, buy yarns and join the knitting community! You can even look for a knitting club in your area. Of course, I have a weekly knitting club. It's great for learning new stitches from each other, yarn shopping together and feeling productive while we're just hanging out. We have more scarves than anyone else in the entire state of New York.
Check out www.stichnbitch.org.
And here's a cool book: Stitch 'N Bitch: The Knitter's Handbook
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