2007-03-17 16:22:50 · 4 answers · asked by jons_girl18 1 in Games & Recreation ➔ Hobbies & Crafts
If by shrinking up you mean that it is getting tighter and tighter on the needles and harder to knit the stitches, you are keeping it too tight, loosen up a bit. This is common for new knitters, you just need to relax. Also, make sure that when you are forming your new stitches that you are wrapping the yarn fully around the barrel of the needle, not just the point. The stitches should, at any rate, hug the needle, not strangle it. Another problem you may be having is that you may be knitting into the wrong side of the stitch consistently which twists them and tightens them up. You work into the side of the stitch where the yarn comes from the stitch that came before it, not after it.
2007-03-18 05:38:21 · answer #1 · answered by mickiinpodunk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a difficult answer to give you. Are you asking if the further on you knit, the yarn seems to be getting thinner? If that is your question, you are causing too much tension on the yarn as it comes out of the skein. Are you pulling enough yarn out to allow you to make your stitches, without any extra tension? If I have guessed your problem, I can give you an east solution. When you get a skein, pull out the center strand of yarn, and roll it in a ball. It is easier to loosen the yarn off a ball.
2007-03-18 01:51:18 · answer #2 · answered by Pat C 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you mean it's getting tighter then that's a tension problem. You just need to relax a bit more.
2007-03-19 10:02:34 · answer #3 · answered by gerrifriend 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, it will still do that no matter what u do
2007-03-17 23:33:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋