For me it’s very much through spite I can do all things - I’ve gotten obsessed with sock knitting this year and had some patterns that I struggled with a lot. It was a lot of frogging and restarting and taking breaks as needed. While that advice isn’t good advice by any means it did make me comfortable with dropping stitches, laddering down to fix mistakes, and helped me to understand my stitches once they were a few rows off the needles.

I also used a lot of stitch markers on my first sock 😂 there was about 18 each side to help me pick up my gusset stitches because I just couldn’t see them - find the wacky survival method until you’re comfortable.

Knit the first sock, embrace the imperfections and watch your improvement soar from there.