To provide a method and an apparatus both for performing a yarn- piecing operation, enabling a success rate in performing the yarn-piecing operation by transferring a part of a yarn wound in a package into a spinning station to be improved.

When performing a yarn-piecing operation by winding in a package P a spun yarn 9 drawn from a spinning station 6, by pulling the end part of the spun yarn 9 wound in the package P in the case of spun yarn breakage and by transferring the end part of the yarn 9 as a lead yarn Y into the spinning station 6, the lead yarn Y being transferred into the spinning station 6 is transferred into the spinning station 6 while being blown by compressed air so as for the slack of the yarn Y to be pulled in.