7 Tips to Improve Yarn Tension in Crochet [+ a Crochet Tension Regulator]

Today's tutorial is about improving your attention. This is one of the questions I get the most because it's so frustrating. I hate that all I can say is practice, practice, and even though practice is the most important thing when working on your

tension

. It is not a very satisfactory solution, so today we are going to review why attention is so important and how to

improve

it. I'll also show you how to make this super cute voltage

regulator

and how to use it for the first time. The tip I have for you is to pull from the center of this scheme, so this is a typical ball of

yarn

that you'll find in the store and it has two ends, one on the outside, you'll find it here and then there's one on the inside and sometimes this one was very easy to find, sometimes they're sitting right there on the edge and you can just pull it out and it's easy to get out, other times you have to really get into what I do if you can't. find it, stick it with your index finger and thumb to find the center of the ball and usually you'll find a clump that looks like this, you pull it all the way out and then you just try to find the end, sometimes a whole chunk comes out, which is Also known as

yarn

vomit, which isn't very fun, but if you notice you're pulling out a bigger piece, try putting it back in and maybe try the other side, it really depends on what skein of yarn you have.

If you are using it, it will be easy to get ahead or if you will have to go searching. My second tip for you is to wind your thread scheme in a case, so this is a little urine cake and you use a fancy little device called a thread winder or a ball winder and it just turns it into this little cake and that's it. way it's easy to pull from the outside or even from the inside like this so you can see it slowly unraveling in the middle which also brings me to the third tip which is to invest in a wool bowl, this is one of the three wool bolts I have and I really love it, my mom bought me this one, I honestly don't know where she got it from, probably on Amazon, so what you do is take your wool cake and place it inside your wool container that way, you can use the end of the end thread and place it here and there as you work, your thread just spins there, there is no movement or falling. on the couch this looks like it got a little tangled, but it doesn't fall all over the couch, none of that crazy nonsense, it just comes off very easily, which really helps

improve

your

tension

.

The fourth tip I have for you is to use a beginner-friendly brush. yarn, so when I say beginner friendly, you can really use any yarn, but I wouldn't use a novelty yarn if you're a beginner. Obviously I wouldn't recommend using this to practice your points because you won't really be able to see. Your stitches also with cotton thread like this one. This is a sugar and cream ball and the thread is beautiful, perfect for wipes, but since it is 100% cotton, it is a little harder to work with, so you may not want to use a 100% cotton thread. like Lillie sugar and cream, just stick with your typical acrylic yarn while you learn.

Tip number five is to go up or down the hook size, so let's say you're working on a project and your Chane base is much tighter than the rest. of your work and this happens to you a lot. I would use a larger hook size for the base chain and then once you get to the rest of your work, go back to the recommended hook size in the pattern if your chain is much larger. looser than the rest of your work, then I would go down a hook size. What I mean when I say go down or up one hook size, let's say you start with a five millimeter hook to go up one hook size would be two five points. five millimeters going down the size of a hook would be two four point five, so you're only going down half a millimeter.

The sixth tip is to find out if you have loose or tight

crochet

now, before we get into that, there are times when your mood can affect your attention, so let's say you had a very stressful day at work and came home To

crochet

and relax a little at the beginning of your project, it may fit a little tighter, but as you crochet your stitches may become tighter. looser because you are becoming more relaxed, so first make sure that is not the problem. If you see this continually and don't think it's related then I would definitely try to figure out if you are a tight or loose crocheter and that if so that's completely fine, we all crochet differently, just knowing what you are will help you adjust in the future.

You will find a video I found by Mikey in the crochet crowd and within this video he talks all about tight and loose. crochet mistakes, how to know if you are one or the other, what the difference looks like, etc. You can find the full written tutorial for this video in the description below and that's where you'll find the video, our last and final tip. To make this handy voltage

regulator

now I just want to say first of all that I am NOT the designer behind this cool idea, but I will show you how to make it yourself and how to use it so that this voltage regulator is used so that when you hold your thread instead of finding some crazy fancy way to hold it, you're just going to run it through this regulator and I'm going to show you how to do it in just a minute, so now how about we learn how to do this.

Super cute little regulator, so first you need a worsted yarn, which is a medium number four, so I'm just going to use this blue yarn that I have here to make a slip knot and a crochet bug pattern, she It says to use a four. millimeter hook but I couldn't find mine so I'm just going to use a 4.25 millimeter one so we're going to chain nine one two three four five six seven eight nine now join your chain to the first chain so you can slip stitch, like this you insert the hook into the first chain, yarn over through the first chain and then pass through the second chain so you have made a slip stitch to create a circle, now chain three one two three, this counts as a double crochet stitch and We will work a double crochet in each chain, so remember that this chain three counts as one stitch, so we will not do double crochets in this hole, we will work in the next chain, so 1, 2 and 9, then you will do a slip stitch at the top of your chain 3, so here is our chain 3 1 2 3 slip stitch at the top and then you will chain 3 1 2 3, that was our first row.

I like to turn mine around so I'm not working strangely, okay? we are chaining we change 3 and then you will continue to work again 1 double crochet in each of the 9 stitches and this counts as the first stitch so we will move on to the next stitch so 1 2 now remember that this was the slip stitch from the previous round, like this that we are not working on that point, we are sewing at the top of our chain 3 and now we have our second row complete, now we make one more row of the row we just made, chain 3 and double crochet in the next 9 stitches, so we're closing out our final round for the tension regulator, we're going to slide the stitch to the top of chain 3 from the beginning and we're done, so now we're going to cut our Thread and pull, pull tight and then you'll have your own tension regulator.

Now I'm not going to weave the ends because I just want to show you how this works, so what we're going to do is stick our finger in and it might feel a little tight, but that's because it's going to regulate that tension for you, so this is how you put it on your finger now to use it. I'll use white thread so you can see how you create your Slipknot first. Remember because this is on your finger, it will feel a little strange at first once you get the hang of it, although it will make a lot more sense, so you have this tension regulator on your finger, you will have your slip hook and a slip knot right here. and your hook insert your hook into one of the top two high points, then you're going to place your slipknot on top of your hook and you're going to use your other hand to try to tighten this so we'll tighten our slipknot onto our hook and we'll do that. pull it out and pull it all the way out so the end comes out and then we pull it back through and now you're holding it the same way you just used your attention regulator to pull the thread so I'm I'm going to go ahead and just chain a couple together so you can see how it works.

Look how it's coming out now. If you feel like you need a little more tension, you can go through three of the high points and it will hold it down. a little more I think one of the reasons I really love this tension regulator is because it's almost exactly how I crochet except I don't have this, almost all I use is my index finger to tension my thread, yeah, there it is have. That's how to create a voltage regulator yourself and how to use it and that's it for today's tutorial on how to improve your voltage.

If you have questions about any of these

tips

, please leave them in the comments below. You can also find the full written tutorial on my Ogoni macaroni comm blogs and I will leave that link in the description. I hope you enjoyed today's video, if so please like and subscribe for more crochet tutorials. See you next time.