basketweave scarf, need to learn how to correct knitting mistakes on my own, A.C. Moore's in-store knitting and crocheting party

the 12 inches of my friend's basketweave scarf was wonderful but getting bogged down in too many knitting errors when knitted too fast or when tired.
So the kind owner of Knit and Stitch had a suggestion that I do the middle 3 feet in garter stitch and the last foot in basketweave. I may do that in order to knit this scarf faster, so I started the continued midsection of the same scarf in garter stitch.

Total finished length to be 5 ft. roughly 400 or so rows, done around 70 or so.
I will try doing a few rows a day in order to get some additional progress.
Must get this scarf project done so I can stop talking about this same basketweave scarf. And into my dear friend's hands by the end of November, 2006 for his birthday. Or his Christmas present.

Come February 22nd, I will start a beginning sweater class called "My First Sweater" knitting a baby-sized sweater with buttons and with minimal shaping. Cutting my teeth a little on increasing and decreasing which of course is "old hat" to most knitters out there who've knitted for a while.

I having another scarf project going so that when one knitting project gets errors in need of help, there is always at least one project error-free and in good shape to knit to fall back on.

I really need a class in making deliberate knitting mistakes and having to straighten them out. Am always too dependent on more experienced knitters to bail me out.

Tomorrow, Saturday January 28th, there is a knitting or crocheting party at a local arts and crafts store in Rockville, Maryland called A.C. Moore. There will be instruction in knitting, crocheting. using a kid's knitting machine, etc.