PLEASE HELP! I'm losing faith!

[coalminerswife]

I am REALLY new to knitting (about 2 hours old) and have been trying to teach myself using this website. The instructions are amazing, and I can cast on really comfortably now. I am using the English stich (German?) and am giong REALLY slow so that I don't add stiches. Here is my problem:

When I am done with my last stich in a row, I have a big loop at the end and it is unrealistic to go onto the next row. I mean a BIG loop. I have started over (frogged?) so many times I am about to poke my eyeball out with one of the needles!

Please, someone, anyone, help a woman who wants to keep her kids warm this winter! They may be wrapped head to toe in skinny scarves, but something is better than nothing.

Thanks in advance!