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Answer: very carefully. Ideally, you get an umbrella swift (a special rack to lay it on) and a yarn winder (that makes a nice center pull ball) and work with it carefully. If you got the skein at a yarn shop they should have (and let you use) both items. If not, but you HAVE an umbrella swift, set it...
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I know nothing about spinning dog hair so I have no opinion on that. But if you are unsure of yourself, and have a limited or finite amount of dog hair, don't use it to practice on. We get better in time by working on our craft. you are probably doing very well but you want to do better. A class...
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You sound like a perfectly NORMAL Newbie. As another columnist says on a totally other subject: it gets better. I would suggest concentrating on wool for now, it may be easier. Do what I have heard is called Park and draft: twist up your wool, stop the wheel, draft it out and then draw it in and do it...
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Hello, my name is Richard and I'm an addict. It's something I never thought about until I allowed my fiancee to take me to a fiber festival last fall. It was a trick, she suggested we go on a motorcycle ride. While all the yarn knitting devices were of no interest, I was fascinated by the spinning...
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Hi My name is Doralee and I have opened Doralee's Handspininng in Sanford Maine. I am starting to teach classes and have run in to the problem of getting across core ideas of spinning techniques to students who want to learn spinning but are having a hard time getting over the fact they have to let...