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Are you new to working with fleece? Here’s a place to start… Jacey introduces good clean fiber and what we’re going to do with it!

Maggie Casey, the woman who has taught more people to spin than anyone we know, talks about the best fiber to start with if you’re new to working with fleece. Spoiler, it’s a medium wool!

Maggie Casey, author of Start Spinning, walks us through the first step when you’ve got good clean fiber — teasing! It’s slow and meditative and she gives you the best method she’s found after working her way through thousands of fleeces.

Learn to make light and fluffy rolags with fiber expert, Maggie Casey.

It happens to all of us, our yarn end gets buried in the yarn on our bobbin. Here are the best ways that PLY readers have found to recover it.

The Canadian Production Wheel (CPW) was engineered to spin fine yarn fast. It is a double-drive, Saxony-style wheel with a large drive wheel. This article explores the history of this wheel.