its only yarn! if you mess up, you can unravel.
i learned color work when i was young (age 9!) and too stupid to know it was supposed to be scary or hard.
i did pretty good too, for a first effort… (but even then, i saw mistakes and flaws (mostly gauge). i still find i need to go up a needle size when knitting fair isle…
in June Archive of my blog there is a fair isle hat i knit with Paton’s classic merino. normally i’d use a US size 8 needle for that yarn… but i knit the hat on size 9’s and the gauge is still tighter than i normally get on size 8’s.
the hat is stretchy, and the pattern doesn’t pull in (or corregate) but the gauge is WAY different.
this is why i think its important to knit a big swatch (a 20 inch head band is about equal to a sweater front or back… )
keeping your knitting loose , and making sure you knit the right size is very important so a big swatch is a good place to start!