Of course you can!
Your tension is stitch by stitch so it should not affect the finished product. Personally I knit like I write - a bit uneven and tense. Mum knitted Dad a cricket jersey on regular needles and it even had all-over cables.
Remember knitting is like breadmaking - whatever you end up with you can use. (Eat or wear). You just might do it better next time
And (as the Mother Superior and the Mistress of Novices agreed in The sound of Music ) the wool of the black sheep is just as warm as the wool of the white
....but don't let me get started on that particular "kink" of mine