My first knitting project was a scarf, and I put it on pause for a while (I’m in college and got very busy). I’m coming back to it, and I see a lot of mistakes I’d like to correct. Can I just unravel the scarf and then start from the beginning with the yarn I unraveled?
Yes you can.
The yarn you unravel will be quite wibbly as it will have settled a little into its knitnstotch shapes but this shouldn’t really matter especially for earlier projects.
I belive some knitters wash yarn after it has been used before to kind of relax it back into its straighter form and then re roll it.
I wouldn’t bother with that though.
By the way there a video tutorials on how to fix individual stitches even if they are many rows down from your live stitches. You might prefer to fix some of the mistakes you have found rather than undoing it all and starting again.
Let us know if you need help with fixing stitches.
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Thank you so much! In this case, I added too many stitches to each row, so the scarf was too wide, and I was using the bee stitch and reversed the pattern accidentally at one point, so I’ll definitely be unraveling and redoing. Thank you again for your advice and knowledge 
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Just be careful about being too much of a perfectionist…I restarted a friend’s baby blanket - several times - my husband was concerned the blanket wouldn’t be finished before the baby went to college. 
Mary
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