A first-person column from the Minnesota Weaver spinning series in which a beginning spinner describes choosing fleeces and spinning yarn to suit specific projects. She covers a Columbia fleece spun for a knitted cardigan, lamb's wool spun to imitate a commercial blarney-spun yarn, and a Romney fleece spun, mordanted and dyed for a rya rug. She also mentions a planned rya from Lincoln wool dyed with indigo and logwood, and urges spinners to plan what the handspun will be used for.

A one-page column from the Minnesota Weaver, April 1980, in which spinner Sue John of Wausau, Wisconsin, describes six "learning experiences" from her early spinning. The lessons cover buying a dirty fleece, dye bleeding in handspun yarn, choosing a fleece by staple, grade and crimp, machine carding that blended colored fleece, the cost of buying greasy Lincoln fleece from abroad, and underestimating the yardage in a pound of alpaca. The page also carries short notices of Minnesota and South Dakota shows, exhibits and craft festival deadlines for 1980.