new knitter having a significant amount of trouble with my tension! help!! does anyone have any tips of the trade?

on a postive note :) Amy what an awesome site!! Greatly appreciated!

Welcome Ashley!

This thread has some tips on working on tension: http://www.knittinghelp.com/knitting/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17

~Amy

I think one piece of advice that really helped me was "keep your needles at a 45 degree angle."

Once I started doing that, I found my tension got a great deal better.