How do you do tight stitches without warping the tufting cloth?

A lot of tufters doing real tight stitches, basically leaving no space between that ends up making the rugs look fantastic. However, sometimes ended up with a warped canvas. Is there a technique to doing tight stitches? Should  be spacing them normally and then filling in the gaps after the tufts are initially in?

1,A few things to remedy this....

Decrease tension

Increase the speed of your gun and use less resistance. Essential let the gun walk up by itself while maintaining pressure against the cloth but not downward pressure.

Angle the gun slightly up while tufting.

2,There's a few ways you can decrease yarn tension...

Your yarn feed. If your yarn is tightly wound and not pulling freely it will increase the tension. If you have it hooked through the eye hooks on your frame it will increase tension. To completely get rid of tension, best bet is to cake it or cone it and have it directly benethe you on the floor. Never use those frame dowels for cakes or skeins. Those are only meant for cones on cardboard.

Putting less downward resistance on your gun while tufting like a mentioned before and letting it walk up. Also angling your gun up slightly while you tuft will space out your stitches more.

Your speed has a little to do with it. You have to constantly adjust your tufting technique depending on what speed you are tufting at. Higher speed means more stitches a second. Therefore you need to angle your gun slightly higher than you would at a slower speed or completely let the gun walk up itself. Slower speed means less stitches per second, so you would want to increase your resistances or tension.

3,Increase tension with soft yarn.

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