When I say six months, I'm estimating, but it took about that long for me to feel confident enough to try anything a pattern threw at me. Mostly, all I made when I first learned were scarves, and fairly simple ones at that.
I think the thing that threw me was listening to my mother tell me that it wasn't uncommon for new knitters to accidentally increase or decrease, and so I didn't want to learn, lest increasing or decreasing became a bad habit. In retrospect, I'm aware of exactly how stupid this sounds.
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Date: 2008-06-27 12:39 pm (UTC)I think the thing that threw me was listening to my mother tell me that it wasn't uncommon for new knitters to accidentally increase or decrease, and so I didn't want to learn, lest increasing or decreasing became a bad habit. In retrospect, I'm aware of exactly how stupid this sounds.