My first Frog, ribbit ribbit

I recently (ok well probably not SO recently) began knitting my first non-scarf object. They were Sarah's Arm Warmers from Ravelry. I knit the first 16 rows properly. I was confused about my first time cabling so I asked around. I thought the pattern that read "repeat cable pattern 5 times" meant I should repeat the last row which included the cable 5 times. After about 3 rows of repeating the wrong row, I realized my knitting was inside out. Shortly afterward, I realized that I wasn't supposed to cable every row, only row 8. :(

It was at that moment when I realized that I could not simply pull it apart stitch by stitch on DPN's (or could I?) and I had to pull it all apart. :0(
RIBBIT, RIBBIT, RIBBIT
I will start again soon. I'd post pics of my frog but who wants to look at a gray skein of yarn?