Knitting Tension. How to knit with ease.
Hello I'm Kristen and welcome back to my channel STUDIO KNIT
so knitting tension is how evenly the yarn feeds into your
knitted work from the yarn ball our goal is to have a moderate even tension
throughout our knitting both while casting on and while knitting there are
a few good reasons we do not want our knitting tension to be too tight or too
loose for starters your knitted piece will look its best when you're knitting
with an even tension otherwise your work may have stitches that are a mix of tall
short tight loose resulting in looking pretty wonky it's really common for
beginning knitters to start casting on and knitting too tightly you'll know
that you're knitting your stitches too tightly when it's really hard to insert
your needle into your stitches remember your stitches cannot be any smaller than
your knitting needle size right so there's no need for your yarn to squeeze
those needles just lightly wrap your yarn around your needles so it's
touching all the way around but not holding on for dear life test out your
stitches to see if they can move along your needle like this without too much
effort your hands will thank you knitting really tightly it often results
in stressed-out hands if you feel your hands are starting to hurt from knitting
just try to knit a little bit looser and you also might want to take breaks and
do some hand exercises and a bit of massage before knitting you also might
want to check your mood if you are stressed out or angry you may tend to
knit on the tighter side so when you're ready to knit take this opportunity to
check in with yourself take a breath and just relax into your knitting knitting
lessly it's not quite as common for beginning knitters but it can happen so
just make sure your yarn is holding onto your knitting needle and it's not
looping around really loosely with a lot of space between test out your stitches
to make sure the yarn is holding onto your needle
but not in huge open loops oh and if this video has been helpful to you
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tension again and even steady moderate tension it's your goal so while knitting
make sure your yarn is wrapped around the needle hugging it with a nice even
tension getting into a rhythm with your knitting it's helpful too if you find
yourself getting interrupted putting down your knitting needles a lot between
your stitches your tension might become uneven personally I like to keep a
really nice steady rhythm with my knitting and of course a slow rhythm is
perfectly fine I also try to complete my knitting stitches along the row not
putting it down until I have completed that entire row once you've gotten into
your rhythm and been knitting for a little while you'll find yourself
naturally knitting evenly you found your groove and you're no longer thinking
about it checking tension with a gauge swatch I just wanted to quickly mention
that as you start to check out knitting patterns you'll start to see a mention
of checking your gauge with a knitted swatch this is a way to determine if
your knitting with the correct tension needle yarn size to make a project a
specific size I feel this is not something you need to concern yourself
with right now I just wanted you to be aware that there are knitting projects
that require correct sizing so in the future you will be creating a little
swatch that is checking your tension but for now just have fun knitting as evenly
as possible check out my entire absolute beginner knitting series to get started
knitting now available on teachable thanks so much for watching and I will
see you next time guys.
BYE!