Blue woven items are my biggest sellers! And luckily I also really like blue. Usually I add some brown or beige tones to my scarves to make the blue really pop, but this time I had some mint blue and greens to get woven up, so here we are!
This project uses wool that was purchased in 2021, and scoured and spun in 2024.
It’s wool that goes way back!
In this photo left to right:
Brown alpaca
White shetland
Light brown Finn
Dark brown Finn
March of 2025 I was aiming for a moss green. I got that, and threw in some Shetland wool afterwards, and it came out this lovely minty teal!
I used this green in a bunch of projects in 2025, and I’ve got just a handful or so left!
The teal was all spun using distaff and spindles, and plied on the Great Wheel.
I was working on filling this entire basket with rolags all the way up to the top of the handle, but they started to fall out at this point.
These are all merino, which is the most fun to spin on the Great Wheel, so that’s what I did!
Warping the loom is my least favorite part of this whole process, and in this photo it was finally done!
The skein with both blue and green in it makes the most beautiful woven patterns. It all blends together when that technique is throughout the entire piece, but in this scarf it pops!
I finished just after new years and celebrated with a little snowy photo shoot under our spruce trees! It was a warm day for winter for us, around 37 degrees, which I only remember because it had the audacity to rain on us!
This scarf, being 100% wool and alpaca, was very warm, and under the protection of the trees I was surprisingly comfortable!
We had a lot of fun shooting in the snow with this nice and long scarf!
It’s currently available on etsy.
This is one of the longest process scarves I have ever done, meaning it used up a lot of wool that I’ve had for a while! I really don’t like letting things sit around, so I’m glad I found a way to use it up!
If you spin, what’s the longest a wool or yarn has hung around before you used it up?
Happy spinning!
The Apple Creek Farm 
Leave a comment