How to Tension Your Yarn when Knitting
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2024
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This video knitting tutorial will help you learn how to tension your yarn when knitting. I get a lot of questions about how I hold my yarn when I knit. There are many ways to hold your yarn. This is just one way. If you have another way that works for you don't feel like you need to change. This method will work for both english style and continental style knitting. Having good tension will make your knitting more even and even help you knit faster.
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I've been knitting for a little over a month now and was still struggling with tension until I saw your video. You are the only one who actually slows it way down to explain in full detail how to hold the yarn for correct tension. We all know that even tension is imperative for knitting anything other than a blanket. After watching your video, and practicing for a few hours, I have got it down now with no loose loop at the end of my row. Bonus that my speed has picked up already as well. I have become even more addicted to knitting now thanks to you. I feel fully confident I can take on that cardigan I want to knit. By far the most important video for me. Thank you so very much.
This was great, thanks, been searching for "how to sell knitted items" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Veyillian Noncarlett Eradicator - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now )? Ive heard some awesome things about it and my cousin got great success with it.
So many people say, "just have the right amount of tension, not too much, not too little." That... is in no way helpful. I think everyone with a question kind of FIGURED that. So I’m thrilled someone is actually explaining some measures people can take! Also, I have chronic pain, so the heads up about irritation or pain is really appreciated.
Glad you found it useful Amara! There are lots of ways to tension your yarn. This is just what works for me.
This is a great tutorial. I knit Continental style (and I'm not left-handed) and recently have been learning Fair Isle and holding the second color in my right hand. Up until this point I have been having a lot of difficulty because it's not as fast and smooth as Continental. The way you do it is so much easier than the other tutorials I've just watched. Thank you! I'm determined to become an ambidextrous knitter!
i hope you see this since the video is so old. i never leave comments, but you have really helped me. i have been trying on and off for many days to try to learn flicking, but have not been able to figure out how to hold my fingers for the tension to stay constant and the thread to stay on my finger. your video has made all the difference, so thank you soooooo much:)
It's wonderful to see another gentleman knitting!! This video was incredibly helpful. I don't know how many dozens of your videos I have watched in the last week, but THIS ONE was transformational. I had no idea how much my yarn-holding was slowing me down and making very ugly knit fabric--uneven always. Mil gracias.
thank you thank you thank you for a great instructional video. You actually slowed down to teach unlike other videos. So glad I found this one!
This is how I knit!! I never seen anyone else show my knitting style. Thanks❤
I love the way you slowed down and explained this thoroughly. I just started knitting and I am very clumsy and have been looking for a style that is easy to understand. Thank you!
This was great, I was holding my yarn the complete opposite way, and took WAY more effort and made knitting a hassle, now my stitches arent too tight, and my yarn glides much easier. Thank you!
Thank you for taking the time to make this video. I am a beginning knitter and an advanced crocheter. I thought tensioning the yarn would conflict with my "crochet style" but your throw method actually compliments it and has helped me to obtain even stitches. Thank you!
As a fellow advanced crocheter this has given me renewed hope in knitting using this method.
Very helpful, thanks! I've only started knitting yesterday. I started out way too tight, then way too loose, and am now trying to find a good tension in between.
thank you for this video! it was perfect and very detailed. when i was taught how to knit, i was taught to completely move my hand off the needle when throwing the yarn around, and now that i knit more it creates too much strain on my shoulder so i wanted to find an easier way. every other technique shown on youtube for holding yarn just wasn't working for me, especially because i didn't know how to continue pulling yarn through my fingers. your explanation is perfect and it's made knitting enjoyable again. thank you!! :D
I love knitting but I had a lot of trouble with my tension being too tight. I have no problem with crocheting. Your demonstration & explanation of how you hold the yarn & it was very easy for me to catch on. It has been a big help. Thank you. By the way, I don’t know how you & others slowly demonstrate how to hold the yarn & how to knit or crochet & explain how you do so without having an anxiety attack. Hahaha.
Your tips really helped me so much. I had struggled with my tension often giving up on knitting because of it, but since I watched your video, my project turned out really well. I like the way you explain things, slowly and easy to understand. Thank you!
That's great! So glad we could help. :)
This has really helped me improve my technique thank you so much!
Thank you! I’m starting my first pair of socks on DPN and between the smaller needles and the thinner yarn my previous method of tensioning just wasn’t working. This is going to make things so much easier once I get over the four needles at once thing.
JFC. you just changed my life. 5 seconds ago my knitting was so tight I could not even move the stitches along a bamboo needle
This is so helpful! Thank you l!
Wonderful. Life saver!
You described tension better than I have seen anywhere.
Well, normally I use my third hand; but in this video, I just used a tripod.
English knitting does not require dropping the yarn at all when knitting. It has been around a long time, I learned to knit over 50 years ago as it is the way my mother taught me, so it isn't new, only to those who have not seen it done before.
Just hold on the needle with the pinky and ring finger and you will not have to drop the yarn. Everyone's knitting can be fine tuned as we stop paying close attention when watching movies.
Thank you so much. The stitches I make using this method are too tight to pearl through :-D but I have only knitted 20 stitches :-) I will keep practicing.
Very nice tip, thanks for sharing it! :-)
Thanks! I have been trying to learn to knit and my tension was very loose. This shouldvhelp a lot!
Thank you for this video. Wonderfully detailed and clear explanations. Im a crocheter, so continental knitting comes more naturally to me. Would you mind going over how your right hand is gripping the needle throughout the stitch? I see your 3 fingers curl back, but are they all also holding the needle the entire time or is it yourthumb & index? ? I see you must let go at some point and hold with your left hand to grab more yarn, but I'm having trouble coordinating that bit. Thank you
Would you please make a video of you using more than one colour at a time, in a fairisle pattern without dropping the wool all of the time.
I have been searching for a better way to put tension in my knitting. Thank you so very much!!!!
I’m a continental knitter but need to practice this method for color work
Thank you
jumper sweater pullover please
Can this work for continental knitters?
I am having trouble moving the yarn forward seamlessly on my left hand. Can you provide some ideas or demonstrate how to do that? Thank you.
Please could you tell me how you hold the camera for making the video? lol.
Would you happen to have a tutorial of you performing the 1st row right after the cast on row? What stitch do you use after casting on? Does that even matter?
That could be any number of stitches, depending on what you are knitting. There isn't really a special trick to knitting the first row over other rows. But most people would probably start with the knit stitch, and yes we do have a tutorial on that.
I sometimes find wide gaps between the ridges when I'm knitting. I think its been like that since I've started way back. I want my work to look nice and even but it never does. Is this because of my tension? I'm more if a thrower and I've nvr weaved my yarn between my fingers. Any suggestions or help would be great!
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How does this tension method work with bulky yarn?
Would like to see how you hold your yarn when crocheting. Thanks
For Pearl stitch also hold wool like this
Does your finger positioning change when performing a purl stitch? I am more of a crocheter but I have a business and knitting seems to be a popular request. I hold my finger positioning much like yours however, in Crocheting, I am left handed and in knitting I am right handed. I'm not sure why that is, I'm a right handed person generally. I noticed that the yarn passing OVER your index finger in the Knit stitch is really the best positioning you could do for that particular stitch. To me, it would seem that you would have to pivot your wrist a lot more to wrap the yarn in front of the needle in a purl stitch. I'm just a bit curious. I have issues with LOOSE stitches on the LATCH on row. And then tight purl stitches but loose (really more of a normal even stitch-just loser than the purls) knit stitches. Any input would be helpful! Love your video! Very detailed!
Nope. At least with english style knitting like I do, it doesn't change position.
Show me the pearl stitch also
i tried this there is to much yarn i gets in the way.
A year later and I STILL can’t figure out out how to get them yarn to even move through my fingers when wrapped like that. How does the yarn even MOVE?
I am an English knitter and a thrower. I have problem with my tension. I can now see that I have not been holding the yarn correctly for years.
That is also how I tension my yarn.
Some too tight some too loose. Yeah that's my problem. Seems like everything's going okay and then I hit this stretch of stitches and it feels like I'm trying to drive a stake through Dracula's heart.
I don't get it
Do it even more slowly, please???
I’m sorry to disagree with you but you don’t have to be left handed in order to Continental Knit. I’m right handed & I have no problem using my left hand to knit with. Many righties can knit with their left hand. You just need to practice.