Frogging it!!

As fellow knitters might know, the term "frogging it" or simply, "frog", means to tear out the knitted piece completely and to start it over again.

I've done that at least three times with this scarf, maybe more. I've never gotten to more than 5 rows on it without messing it up and making it look very wonky. I am practicing not picking up stitches on each row. I've found out that keeping the yarn down when you move your work back to the hand you hold the yarn with helps tremendously. If you hold it up and over the needle, it looks like two stitches.