Three ways to make a felt candy cane: a flat two-layer ornament with appliquéd stripes, a stuffed tube on a wire core with a wrapped stripe, and a twisted rope cane needle felted or wet felted from red and white wool. With sizes, stripe spacing and a hook that does not flop.
8 min read Beginner
Five felt bookmarks with real measurements: a heart corner bookmark from two 3 in triangles, a 2 × 6½ in strip with a tassel, animal heads that peek over the page, an elastic band, and a needle felted topper on a ribbon. Which felt to use so the spine is not strained, and how to keep glue off the pages.
8 min read Beginner
How to make a felt advent calendar three ways: a 28 x 24 in wall hanging with 24 numbered pockets, a felt wall tree with a pocket strip of ornaments underneath, and 24 mini stockings on a string, with the sheet count worked out, three ways to make the numbers, and fillings that are not candy.
9 min read Intermediate
Sitting up on its big hind feet, a squirrel is mostly tail: nearly as long as the rest of it, curving up the back. How to wire and furnish that tail, shape the sitting pose, fit the paws round an acorn, and colour a grey or a red squirrel.
9 min read Intermediate
Most of a dragon's outline is neck, tail and wing rather than body, so the pose and the wire decide the build. Which pose balances, wire gauges, wool weights for three sizes, wired wings, scales, spines, horns, eyes and colours.
9 min read Advanced
A wool felt needle book with pinked pages, sized for three uses, sewn in an evening or made with a wet felted cover. Plus a felted wool pincushion: how much wool for each size, how firm to felt it, and tomato, strawberry, jar-lid and wrist versions.
8 min read Beginner
Four thin wings felted flat on a foam pad, a wire along each front edge so they hold a pose, and a body with clubbed antennae. Sizes, wool weights, monarch markings and five other species, plus brooch, clip and plant pick mounts.
13 min read Intermediate
A smooth pebble wrapped in a few grams of wool and rubbed in soapy water until the felt shrinks tight onto it. How much wool each size of stone takes, the stocking trick, cut-open geode stones, and what felted stones are good for.
9 min read Beginner
A 4 inch felt gingerbread man pattern with every piece measured, the cookie cutter trick for cutting it, white icing in rickrack or embroidery, and a needle felted version firmed inside the same cutter. Plus a gingerbread house ornament and a garland.
13 min read Beginner
How to make a felted vest with no seams: nuno or all wool, measuring and sizing the resist so it shrinks to fit, how much wool to buy, cutting the neck and armholes, and fulling it to size on your own body.
8 min read Intermediate
Felt earrings that weigh almost nothing, brooches that sit upright, bead bracelets and necklaces: how dense to felt each one, how to fix the metal parts so they never pull out, and how to keep felt jewelry looking new.
8 min read Beginner
Which wool toys cats really play with, how hard to felt them so they survive claws and teeth, catnip versus silvervine, what to leave off, and a short note on dogs.
8 min read Beginner
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.
Printable templates, measurements and shaping guides you can follow exactly, or adapt once you know what the shapes are doing.
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.
The knitting side of working with wool — leaf patterns, casting on, needle sizes and knitting faster — including the pieces that go on to be felted.
Why leaves fall when they do, what a cobweb actually is, and the seasonal makes that follow from both.
What to do with the pumpkin once it is carved — cooking from fresh, including the parts most people throw away.
