Felting Patterns & Templates

Printable templates, measurements and shaping guides you can follow exactly, or adapt once you know what the shapes are doing.

Patterns

What a felting pattern actually contains, why templates must be drawn oversized, and how to adapt any pattern to the wool you have.

4 min read Beginner

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Sculpt wool into animals, figures and decorations with barbed needles. Start with the basics, then work up to armatures, faces and fine detail.

Warm water, soap and friction turn loose fibre into solid fabric. Learn layouts, shrinkage and resists for scarves, soaps, vessels and flat felt.

Felt merino through open-weave fabric to create light, drapey textiles. Fabric choice, fibre weight and migration, explained clearly.

Complete makes with photos at every stage — animals, flowers, ornaments and home decorations, sorted by how much experience they need.

The core techniques, one skill at a time — each written as a sequence you can follow at the table with wool in your hands.

Which needles, wool and mats are actually worth buying — what the gauges mean, what to skip, and what a starter kit really needs.

Fixes for the things that go wrong: fuzzy surfaces, broken needles, wool that will not felt, and shapes that refuse to hold.