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By: Alisson Moore
How to reduce tension when knitting.
1) Bring the end of the yarn up between the 4th and 5th fingers, from the
palmside to the backside of your hand.
2) Loop the yarn across the top of the 5th finger, bring it back down to the
palmside, back up between the 4th and 5th fingers. (Basically, loop it around
the little finger, starting from the palmar surface of your hand, starting
between the 4th and 5th fingers.)
3) After bring the yarn has looped around the 5th finger, weave it over the
top of the 4th finger (moving toward your thumb), under your middle finger, and
over your index finger. Hold the yarn, and eventual piece of crochet or
knitting produced, between your thumb and index or 3rd finger.
This will seem very clumsy at first, but stick with it. It is also quite
confusing when you first start holding the yarn this way, but it will ensure a
very even tension in the end. To make it worse, any time you drop your yarn,
force yourself to hold the yarn like this again, before you even get back to
your project! (ARGH!!!)
Of course, once you start back to your project, you might wonder how to do it
without weaving your whole project between your fingers...this is the trick:
take your little finger to the closest part of your project and begin there.
You should be able to end up every time in the right spot. Maybe practice this
incessantly for awhile... (ARGH! ARGH!! ARGH!!!)
I've taught a number of people to knit, both north and south paws, and using
this tensioning method, once past the throes of learning the craft, they have
produced very nice, evenly knitted and crocheted projects.