I think the issue that was causing you to have way too much yarn with the other method is that you were measuring _all_ the yarn used to knit the 10 stitches. As you said, this incudes the working yarn. If you pull the stitches out gently and only measure from the original slip knot, the measurement will be an accurate representation of how much tail yarn was used for 10 stitches. I'm guessing that the online tutorial(s) you're referring to didn't communicate this clearly. Your trick of dividing by 2 also works, but there's less math involved if you just measure from the slip knot to begin with. 😊
I think the issue that was causing you to have way too much yarn with the other method is that you were measuring _all_ the yarn used to knit the 10 stitches. As you said, this incudes the working yarn. If you pull the stitches out gently and only measure from the original slip knot, the measurement will be an accurate representation of how much tail yarn was used for 10 stitches. I'm guessing that the online tutorial(s) you're referring to didn't communicate this clearly. Your trick of dividing by 2 also works, but there's less math involved if you just measure from the slip knot to begin with. 😊
Great point, makes good sense!