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Ready to go deeper into drafting worsted? Jacey digs way into what worsted drafting is, how it works, and why you’d do it. She covers staple length and how it affects your drafting distance, fiber type, adjusting your tension, how to keep out from between your hands (and how it changes your yarn if you let it sneak in there), and the difference in short back and short forward drafting.

Jacey explains the differences between styles of spinning wheels, their parts, and how they work. She covers castle/upright wheels, saxony wheels, and e-spinners. She also goes over each tensioning system (bobbin-led/irish tension, flyer-led/scotch tension, and double drive) and how they function.

Dear, wonderful Stephenie Gaustad uses her Alden Amos double drive wheel to talk about how double-drive drive systems function. She talks about the relation between whorl/pulley size and bobbin end size and how when you’re starting out, it helps to just trying different adjustments until you get it right.

Stephenie Gaustad gives you the lowdown on how a bobbin-led single drive wheel works. She talks about what yarns this generally greedy drive system excels at making and what it struggles with.

Stephenie Gaustad digs in on how the simple but effective flyer-led (scotch tension) wheel works. She discusses the advantages of this system and how to modify it for specific uses.