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Tension (Verb and Noun)

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Tension (Verb and Noun)

Glossary Cateogry: Other

To tension your yarn is to hold it comfortably in your fingers so that you can knit with it. The tension is the tightness or looseness of your stitches in consequence of how you are holding the yarn.


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