Advice on keeping yarn strands the same tension while doing colorwork
Recently, I've ventured into stranded colorwork with my knitting and I would like to ask about people's experience with tension and holding the yarn.
I'm a continental knitter, and for colorwork I hold both colors in one hand. I wrap the two strands around my pinkie, then have the dominant color go over my index finger and the secondary color go over my middle and index finger. I tried other methods (holding one strand in each hand, those weird ring things, etc.) and this felt the most natural. It's the least headachy way that I can get the tension right and also not be annoyed at the way the yarn feels in/on my hand.
I also hate long floats, so I secure/catch those floats. A local yarn store owner told me it was called something with weaving the floats but I honestly don't remember what she called it.
I've made a couple of sweaters, one with a pretty involved color pattern, another with a less involved one. Here is my problem: although my tension is pretty decent, there are stitches here and there that are too tight or too loose which I hate. I think my main problem is that when holding the two yarns in one hand and securing the floats, at long intervals of one color, the other color loosens from disuse, and the tension on my finger is thrown off. When that tension is thrown off, then weaving the strands and securing the floats become very difficult.
I can't figure out how to make sure that, in those long intervals, both strands maintain the same tension. At the moment, I knit until it becomes too annoying, then rewrap the yarn around my fingers. I think doing that is contributing to some of the wonky stitches. If anyone has any tips or experiences that would be great. It's already difficult to find things for continental knitting (although it's much better than it was 15 years ago), so the research I've done hasn't been super fruitful.