Knitting tension tips

Tips to prevent problems with tension in knitting. Too loose, too tight or inconsistent tension affect the final look of your knitted project.

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Hello and as promised, welcome to a post all about tension. Tension has many meanings in modern life and while this one may not cause muscle spasm (although that depends on how tight you have knitt…

Lesson five in the free online How to Knit course by Talena Winters explains how to hold your yarn to create good tension in your work for even stitches in your fabric.

Purling continental style can be more of a struggle than knitting. It was very awkward for me at first, but now I’m sharing my tips for working faster and with better tension.

English and Continental are the 2 most well-known knitting styles. I switched to Continental after many years of knitting English style and it did a lot to improve my speed and tension, as well as reduce strain. Could it be what you need too?

Do your stitches sit tightly on the needles, so you can hardly move them? Does the finished knit feel stiff and is it too small? You may be knitting too tightly, let's fix that today. I've lots of tips on loosening up your stitches as you knit, we'll get it sorted!

Did you know that almost every knitter's row tension can vary? For some the looser tension is on the knit stitch side and others it's the purl. I’ll show you how to fix that problem!

Do your swatches always look bumpy? You might be suffering from rowing out! Rowing out is inconsistent tension in which every other row is looser than the one above or below it. It's often caused by looser purl stitches compared to knit stitches. In this blog post I'll discuss about a common knitting problem called rowing out, what causes it, and suggest three possible solutions to fixing it: changing needle size, the way you tension yarn, or the way you purl.