I wondered where the gauge was set on the needle, the tip or the barrel. Now I know. I am disabled and can not get out on my own. Prayed for a knitting mentor. I have found one. Thank you.

Thank you, Suzanne! I’ve been knitting off and on for about 60 years and tension has always been a problem. Not any more! I’ve learned so much from your videos. Can’t thank you enough.

A lifesaver for my knitting-a simple connection that no one has ever made for me. Thank you!!!

This simple tip transformed my knitting! I've just started a pattern with a large portion of stockinette; I've never been able to make it look so neat! It looks incredibly professional. Thank you!

I have been doing all of the “don’ts”-I have a lot to work on-thank you!

Huge! I think you pinpointed exactly what my newbie mistakes are.

OMG! Have been a knitter for over 30 years and consider myself of intermediate skill. I recently taught myself how to knit continental style. It has been a struggle, to be sure. You’re instruction on even tension has been EYE OPENING! How did I not know this? So glad I found your channel. You’re the bomb!

I’ve been knitting for a few months (COVID) hobby and have spent today watching your videos one after another. So helpful! But this particular hint completely improved my stitches. I thought I would be to knew to knit on the tips but it’s SO much easier. !!!

I've been knitting for 61 years, and lately my tension has been all over the place. Thank you for this tip (no pun intended)! I'm going to go give it a try right now.

I've been knitting for 20 years and my tension was always very loose because I was knitting on the barrels. This video made everything so clear! Thank you so much!

Thank you for sharing the video! Being a self taught knitter, I always had loose stitches, but never knew why or how to correct it. This video gave me some fantastic insight and I was able to get my stitches tighter. :)

Wow! Thank you so much for your demonstration! I’ve been knitting for years and have always had problems with tension.

Thanks for the wonderful video and for being a great teacher! You present knitting tips so well! I just completed my first knitting project English style. Two days ago I decided to learn Continental knitting. Wow! What a difference! I love it and will soon start a second shawl for my second daughter. Needless to say, or maybe that would be needles to say, I will be doing Continental knitting and taking your advice!

Your videos are super helpful! Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us!❤

I don't just like this tip, I LOVE it...Working on the tips...❤

Love your instructions. You are like having a knitting teacher in my pocket,or phone, to pull a out whenever I need it!

I watch your videos again and again. The stitches really don’t fall off. It is amazing how it comes together when one goes through your videos!

Practice has become my go to word 🥴 thank you. In my saved file.

You truly are a fantastic mentir, Suzanne 😊 Thank you sharing these tips that help us improve our knitting ☺️

Excellent tip! Thank you!!

Thanks Suzanne, that makes a huge difference in my knitting.

Thank you Suzanne for this highlighting lesson! I was almost giving up knitting because my tension was always too loose, making all the mistakes you mentioned. Also I couldn’t reach an even tension with the Norwegian purl, now I’m trying to master a different continental purl which is very hard for me but the result is astonishing

Great demonstration. Thank you.

This very clear video has really helped me even out my tension, throwing. Thanks so very much!

Thank you! You are so generous, you take the time to explain. I know with practice my stitches will be uniform. In time maybe as nice as your stitches. I'm on it. Thanks again. Love your teaching.

This was the best tip for having better looking stitches. It made the biggest differences in my tension. Ty so much.

I am so grateful to you. I have been so frustrated with the loss of time in the style I was knitting. I would push the yarn up to the barrel of both hands and unevenly on the right. Thank you ever so much for your expert advice!

Oh my goodness! This changed everything for me! Thank you!

Hi Suzanne, Thanks for such a great tutorial on getting good tension and more even stitching. I’m a new/beginner knitter and this is an area I’m having trouble in. Thanks to this video you have helped me so much. I’m working on a shawl that’s done in garter stitch I’m 30 rows into it so I’ll have plenty of practice with your tension tip. I love your video’s thanks for sharing.

Thank you so much , Suzanne! I have struggled through too many years of wonky stitches ( self taught knitter) this really clarifies it.

Hello Suzanne. I discovered you when going through some Fiberchats interviews and immediately began binge watching your channel! For the first time in my many years of knitting I am actually practising improving my edges and using the tips of the needles more effectively. My tension which is usually tight, is even tighter, which is not what I wanted but i am becoming more relaxed as I practise. Thank you so much. Never too old to learn hey!

Thank you so much for this very helpful video. I am learning so much from your videos. I am a thrower and have been doing my knitting down on the barrel like you said not to do. I have very uneven stitches and I never can get gauge...my gosh, this certainly explains why! I’m anxious to start practicing knitting on the tips. Thank you for taking time to make these great videos.

Thank you this helped me so much. I had problems even with a simple square with different tension in garter stitch

Awesome help. Thanks. Keep on the tips of the needles.

Thank you, i mostly crochet but have been trying to make this cute little frog recently with knitting. Ive tried to knit before but struggled with it. My first attempt at the frog was very loose and when you showed the example of what you see some people do I was like aha…thats why lol. Thank you

This is very helpful! I am a knitter of about 40 years and a thrower but knit 2 handed for colorwork and my continental tension is all over the place. I am determined to knit a very complicated fair isle sweater and wanted to improve my continental tension prior beginning that project. I was tempted to fast forward this through the English segment- but am happy I watched that part too. I have improved my tension for both methods overall- a big thank you!

I am 90 yrs old and knitting a long time. Didn’t know the things you are teaching. Thank you so much. 😊

Thankyou Suzanne for this video. Having re-taken up knitting in the pandemic I’ve knitted a few things, some of them better than others. I now want to refine and perfect my knitting. Your video was so clear and helpful. Thankyou so much !

I have watched many videos about my tension problems as I am a crocheter and wanted to learn to knit, as a beginner even tension is one of my biggest issue. Most of the video tutorials that I have watched nobody is really emphasizing how big the effect on knitting between just the tip of the needle rather than pushing it with the barrel and causes it to stretch. your video really really does make sense and helped fix my tension issues. Thank you and so happy to have found your video.

Thanks so much for the video this has really helped with my purl row tension!

You are the only person I have found that explains tension so profanity.

Thank you for this useful tip...my knitting looks so much neater since i have followed your instructions. 😊🙏

So detailed.😀😍.saved me during my assignments .thanks.

I asked a question in your FB group and you answered it with this KZfaq video. Very helpful.

Thank you so much for this video. Being self taught fairly recently, I could not figure out why my stitches were so inconsistent. This really helped. Love your videos. Thanks again.

Wonderful video! I will pay more attention to my needle tips from now on. I've made a big effort to abandon my childhood throwing & convert to Norwegian 'picking'. It's becoming more and more natural & efficient. I love the way you teach, right to the point and with all the best explanations! Thank you!

ah so that’s what i was doing incorrectly! i’m originally a crocheter so i’ve been getting very confused as to why my knit stitches were so noticeably uneven. turns out, i was doing the one thing you aren’t supposed to: pulling the needles apart between stitches. thanks!

Immediate improvement! Thank you, thank you!

Definitely a great tip. Thank you, Suzanne!

This is exactly what I needee, thank you!!!

Thank you so much for posting this. I somehow, in my years away from knitting, developed a bad habit and wondered why my gauge was so far off. I was able to adjust my gauge enough to get what I needed for the mitten pattern I was working on by forming stitches on the tips and keeping the tips close together.

Thank you so much for this making this video. I have spent years trying to figure out why my knitting has gone loose and my tension is always off. and this was the answer. I just did a sweater hat and mittens for my grandson, and my daughter sent a message. love the little outfit mum, feels really nice and fits perfect. I don't know when I started pulling yarn high onto needle, but that's what I have been doing.

I am so glad I found you. I gave up knitting because I ws getting holes in my rows and I could not get a good looking knit. I am going to practice what you just showed about holding the yarn closer to the tip of the needle and see if that works for me. Thanks

Very very helpful!! Thank you!!

Your tutorials are spot on! Thank You!

So mighty well explained. Thank you 🥰🥰

This is such a helpful video. Thank you.

Your videos are so fun to watch! I just got into knitting about a year or so ago and I absolutely fear making mistakes, because if I do, I end up ripping the whole thing out. So I knit awfully slow and count every single stitch to avoid mistakes. Your videos give me confidence.

This is helping me a lot! Thank you

Thank you for this helpful video. Along with knitting with the tips is seeing what you are doing with your left thumb, holding the previous knit stitch in place. I just knitted 10 rows of perfectly even stitches.

Thank you very much, Suzanne. After watching your video my knitting improved very much. Watcher from Belgium.

My knitting tension has improved out of sight. Great tip and most helpful, thanks

Thank you! I stumbled upon this video in my search to figure out how and why I couldn’t get gauge. I have literally been knitting incorrectly from the beginning. I used this tip and my gauge swatch amazingly got smaller tighter and neater. Life saver!

Thanks, I'm definitely going to try this.

I found this so very helpful .. thank you so very much

Oh my goodness! I get it! Thank you!

Brilliant! I've *really* been struggling to control my tension since I injured my right wrist and hand several months ago. Although I've mostly healed, my hand tires more easily now and I get intermittent numbness or pain as I'm knitting. All of those things cause momentary changes in the way I hold my needles and form stitches, which affects my ability to keep an even tension going. This simple change of forming stitches on my needle tips has increased the length of time I can knit comfortably and my stitches are even more uniform and evenly tensioned than they were pre-injury! Thank you SO much for this and for all your videos and tutorials. You're a gem. :-)

This is new and precise info for me. I appreciate having a tutorial on even the smallest part. This part is small but should make a big difference in getting a more professional even stitch. I will be using this today. Thanks.

Very helpful. Thank you.

Very helpful, thanks for the insight.

Thank you again this will help me definitely I will try ❤❤❤❤

Thank you, good information. Exactly what I want to work on.

This is true for portuguese style knitting too! Tank you. Kisses from Portugal.

Thank you this helped a bunch!

Hi, Suzanne. I just found your channel yesterday when someone kindly shared one of your videos on the Knitting Paradise forum. I am a 66 yr old native Floridian. Mom taught me to knit English style more than 55 years ago. There are crocheters in my family, but Mom was the only knitter I have ever known, as unbelievable as that sounds. I piddled around with making scarves, hats and occasional sweaters over the years until I stumbled upon Knitting Paradise about three years ago. A whole new world opened up to me and I have been working on learning new techniques and now consider myself a competent intermediate knitter. I also transitioned from throwing to right handed flicking about two years ago and found that improved my tension quite a bit, though my purls still tend to be very slightly looser than my knit stitches. I’m starting to think about trying Continental and watched your series of short videos on that subject. After today’s housework is done, I will sit down with my sticks and string and give it a try. Wish me luck!

Thank you, thank you!

I think I’ve been stretching the yarn between stitches so am never able to make recommended gauge and working on the barrel instead of the tips. The demonstration will really help! Many thanks.

Great tutorial!

Thank you!

This helps. Thanks☺️!

This fixed everything. thank you

I noticed on Fruity Knitting that they were working of their needs. Then I made a sweater and the yoke looks completely different from the in round part. This is my answer. Practice is next. Thanks so much

Awesome video as usual Suzanne, this is truly a game changer tip. When I first started knitting in the 60s I wondered why the stitches looked good sometimes and crummy other times! Just knowing about the barrel connection would have been a light bulb moment that took me a while to figure out on my own.

This was super helpful. Thank you so much. 😊

I often use bamboo needles that yarn doesn't glide on so well. That being said, though I'm a lefty, I have a difficult time doing continental because I've crocheted many years, left-handed, and my finger just doesn't want to stay airborne. 😁. I'm practicing the Continental method, here and there, though, because it looks awesome. Thank you for your videos. They are a joy to watch.

I'm taking another stab at continental knitting as I want to knit more efficiently, not necessarily faster. Suzanne's needle "tips" and her method of holding the yarn in the left hand (over both the index and middle fingers) has brought a huge improvement to my technique. Thank you, Suzanne!

Very helpful tip. I wish 'Even Tension' tips are mentioned more often. Thank you

I knit continental and have been struggling with understanding tension and my uneven stitches ever since i was a kid TT_TT Thank you so much!!

Thank you for the great tip. I didn't realize my mistake.

Thanks again🌸🌼🌹

Very useful! Thank you

Thank you Suzanne! I know now this is why I had trouble with my continental knitting after watching your informative video. I’ve recently switched to the American style flicking method where I’ve found I can keep the proximity of the yarn closer between the needles as well as work closer to the tips. But I like using different knitting techniques so will try this again when I’m in the mood to go “continental” again. Thanks for the great tip.

How is it possible that I have never heard this before! I knew it was the barrel that sized the stitch, but I thought it happened when you wrapped the yarn, so I have always pushed the needle through and wrapped the barrel. Now it appears that everyone knew to knit on the tips of the needles but me. I guess this is one of the things you are taught if you are not self taught and try to figure everything out for yourself. Thanks again, Suzanne!

A great explanation on making a nice even stitch

Thank you this help me .

Thank you you just showed me why my gauge can be over by a couple of stitches over 4”

Very helpful! 😌

Awesome tips re tips!!

Very helpful!

Hello, Suzanne. I'm Sergio from Seville, Spain. Just to thank you for this video. It's difficult to watch videos like this that, for me , are so valuable and necessary for a better knitting. I encourage you to keep on doing them ! Thank you and Happy Knitting !!