Blending hand painted wool

I like playing with colour and the depth that different colours bring to a finished yarn. I am also enamoured with the feel of fibre. The feel as I spin it, the feel as I knit or crochet it, and the feel as it is worn on my body. Sometimes I feel like adding a bit of a different texture into the wool, and when I use hand painted wool sliver or roving, the are multiple option for affected colour as well. My current project is a wool/ramie blend, using hand painted fleece artist bfl wool:

And ramie, which is a plant fibre:

In this case I carded te wool and ramie and then used a diz to create a blended "roving" which I wound up into nests. A diz is a tool with a small hole in it, used to pull the wool through, and I pull right from the cards. I could also create a rolag from the cards, but I like spinning from a roving. The nests are small, fluffy, and soft:

I organize the nests in the order they were carded from the sliver of wool. The hand painted colours are muted because of the white ramie added, but the colours are still distinguishable:

From here, I could choose to alternate the nests in the spinning to make a different variation in colour changes, but I plan to spin them in the order they were carded. I will be spinning a light weight single and then Navajo plying to make a 3 ply yarn. 

Due to the technique used to prepare this fibre I am spinning a woollen yarn, using a long draw method. 

When it is done, I will show you, but the result will be soft and silky!  I can't wait!