Help untwisting my lofts

 From:  mnrsiat
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Often when I loft between two closed curves, the loft surface is "twisted", for example the corner of one curve is connected to the neighboring corner of the next curve, instead of to the corresponding corner. Sometimes there is a handle I can slide to straighten this out, but not always. Is there a way to set the starting point of the curves so that the loft will connect them straight? Or is there some other technique I can use to fix this when the Loft command does not allow me to alter the twist?

thanks, Rachel