Raggedy RO comes in many hues! This skein is on its way today to Susan Weese in Colorado. She knitted the baby hat earlier on in the Blog with the Spring Raggedy RO. Barely off of the knitty knotty and Susan whisked them away. She also couldn't live without the 2 light skeins which are still drying after being spun and washed.
The gray is the ply yarn. One ply is Raggedy RO colors and the gray ply is wool fiber from Germany. I can just see the little German sheep springing on the dikes in the Northern part of the country. In the 70's and early 80's we lived in Schleswig, Germany. I moved there and married my husband Juergen. As you see we are her in Prescott, Arizona now soaking up the sun. Each spring we would take a 30 minute drive to the sea city of Husum and visit "Nord Strand" which is the Island north of Husum. There we would walk on the top of the green grass dikes. The sheep would be grazing along the path and the lambs would be jumping over and around the hay bails. We didn't tell our son Erik that we were on our way later on that day to Kiel to the grandparents house to eat lamb. They were just to cute to think of dinner.
I love to spin with this natural colored gray German fiber. I sometimes dye this fiber with Gaywool dyes which creates rich colored yarn. These two for Susan I left the beautiful natural gray.