>You may already be doing this. If not, try it. Thin down each of the >rovings by splitting and/or predrafting down close to the size of the final >yarn. Then take the 2 rovings and predraft them together so that they are >close to the final size of the yarn.
Right, I tried doing this (didn't mention I was stripping the roving down in my first post). The roving falls apart if it's too thin, unfortunately - short cotton fibers and all. I'm going to try predrafting and putting in just a skosh of twist. I sort of expected that the half wool or half silk would hold it together, but that's not the case. I'm also picking out the dreaded VM. I wish New World Textiles would process their cotton just a *little* more. I was spinning this on a handspindle last night, doing a park-and-long-draw. I'll try again on a wheel and see if I can't get the stuff to draft together a little better. Because the half silk one is a tussah blend, it has a different color than the half wool - and therefore makes it easy to see how the drafting shifts from one to the other, etc. Haneke makes a yarn that is Merino/Pima/Silk (20/65/15), I've written to ask if they carry that at all in an unspun form. It was, surprisingly, the only *yarn* I could find that had all three fibers in it. Too bad it's not the weight I was hoping for! It's also a little pricey... -j. PS Fantasy Fibers does not appear to sell anything cottony. To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
