Talking from my own experience, if you have a local yarn store, simply walk in and say you've just started to learn and need help. Absolutely ALL the yarn stores I've been to have extremely helpful staff and are usually tickled pink when they find a new knitter!
If not, sign up for an invite to Ravelry (http://www.ravelry.com). It takes a few days (I think mine took about 10 days), but is well worth it was there are groups (like communities on LJ) that are for particular areas/regions, and you might be able to hook up with a knitting group that's local to you.
Then novice_knitters is a good, helpful community for new knitters and also has further links to instructional sites on its profile page.
You can do it, honestly. It's that first step, figuring out the how-to, that is the biggest! Once you've done that, you'll be cruising. Heck, come here for a few days, and I'll teach you! :-)
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If not, sign up for an invite to Ravelry (http://www.ravelry.com). It takes a few days (I think mine took about 10 days), but is well worth it was there are groups (like communities on LJ) that are for particular areas/regions, and you might be able to hook up with a knitting group that's local to you.
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You can do it, honestly. It's that first step, figuring out the how-to, that is the biggest! Once you've done that, you'll be cruising. Heck, come here for a few days, and I'll teach you! :-)