The owl I did yesterday I made the back using the aran mottled wool. I didn't have enough of the wool to do the back of the owl today in all mottled aran (it didn't go very far) so I had to do the back the same as the front white aran AND mottled aran.
The mottled aran was from a wool shop in Burnham in a "bargain bucket" for 30p for a brand new ball. The cream aran was off Elaine.