Ask Tara is a  weekly-ish feature in which I attempt to answer your questions about spinning, dyeing or confusing knitting acronyms. If you have a question, ask it in the comments and I’ll answer it here with either a post or a video!

Sodalimegirl, a YouTube viewer, asks:

Could you  show how you initially get your wool onto the wheel and how it gets all set up to spin. In your videos you already have spun wool on the wheel when you do your demos.

Excellent question! This is something so innate, I barely think about it. In preparing for this video, I realized I might do it completely different from someone else. How do you do it?

Here’s how I start each skein of yarn:

What do you think?

Is this how you get started? If not, how?

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