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A swatch has an important role to make knitting process successful. You have to con-trol a yarn tension well to shape a knitting density and keep it stay as stable as possible throughout a whole knitting process. Basically, in a yarn band they have informing a good knitting density to the yarn and the needles which are suitable to it. But is it possible to get knitting density staying just the same like every time? This is a trouble of this study, and in supporting of study is formed a question: In which ways the yarn tension and knitting density changes will influence to differences of loop tension and course tension, and how these differences will be diverging the information of knitting density of the yarn band? The purpose of this study was to research to two the most important measuring parameters: the yarn tension and knitting density. This study was carried out as a quasi-experimental study. The material of this study has included 240 swatches, which have knitted by a researcher herself. Swatches were knitted from different yarn ma-terials and thickness of yarns varied. The sizes of needles were primally chosen ac-cording to recommended for yarn bands. But there were some cases too when the choice didn't follow recommended needle sizes. A colour code meter was built for this study and it included eight different colour codes. Via swatches, the effects of yarn tension in the formation of knitting density were analysed, and the results were also closely compared with the yarn bands. On the grounds of results on this study you can not to control yarn tension perfectly. Because there are lots of different variable factors, which will influence more or less to the knitting process, yarn tension will change every time. Also, the different knitting sur-faces affect the fact that the knitting density of the swatch is different from that of the yarn band’s knitting density. For this reason, the model swatch is very important to knit to make sure of the correct knitting density and to achieve what will aiming through knit-ting.