It's a natural wool color...Lion Brand's Fisherman's Wool. Back in the days when I knit socks for reenactors, I bought a ton of it...I still have a lot of it. And I'm not putting the effort in knitting something this complicated in a polyester yarn I will hardly ever use. I knitted a raglan sweater once like that, and it's been worn maybe 3 times...
I keep saying I'm going to knit my hubby a fancy gansy or aran style sweater, which of course I will steal regularly, and I have some good patterns, but nothing's come of it yet...
It sounds lucious. I love working with natural fibers, but I'm allergic to wool...:o[