Projects
Needle Felted Bee
A striped oval with wings. Small, quick, sells well at craft fairs, and the one project where getting the stripes wrong ruins everything.
4 min read Beginner
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Tutorials
Felting Sweaters
A thrift-store sweater, shrunk on purpose, is the cheapest thick wool fabric there is. Which sweaters will felt, how to do it in a machine or by hand, and how to get a whole sweater used.
7 min read Beginner
Projects
Felted Heart
The shape everyone gets slightly wrong. Three ways to make a heart in wool, and the one adjustment that stops it looking like a leaf.
4 min read Beginner
Patterns
Felted Cat Cave
Knit an absurdly large wool bowl, shrink it by a third in a hot wash, and dry it over a form. The pattern, the arithmetic, and why the entrance is easier cut than knitted.
7 min read Intermediate
Projects
Felt Valentine Crafts
Felt does not fray, cuts cleanly and comes in every red there is. A dozen Valentine projects sorted by how long they actually take.
4 min read Beginner
Patterns
Felt Cat Patterns
Felt does not fray, so a cat pattern is four shapes and no hemming. How to draw your own template, and what changes when the cat is going to be chewed.
6 min read Beginner
Projects
Wool Roving Dreads
A wool dread is a length of roving rolled between wet, soapy palms until it locks. Twenty minutes of rolling per dread, and the difference between good and bad ones is entirely in the fulling.
4 min read Intermediate
Wet Felting
Wet Felting Animals
Wet felting makes bodies, not faces. Build the animal as a hollow form over a resist, full it hard, then dry-felt the detail on top — that combination is how the best felted animals are made.
4 min read Intermediate
Projects
Needle Felted Angel
An angel is three shapes you already know how to make. Get the cone standing straight and the rest is decoration.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
How to Make Felt Mice
A mouse is one shape. Get the teardrop right — fat at the back, tapering to a point at the nose — and the ears, tail and eyes take five minutes.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
How to Make Fake Cobwebs
Stretched wadding, hot glue strings, a spinning drill and a hairspray-and-cotton trick. Which one to use depends on whether the web needs to hang, stick or survive rain.
3 min read Beginner
Supplies & Tools
Felt Machine Embroidery Designs
Felt is the easiest fabric an embroidery machine will ever meet — no fraying, no grain, and it is its own stabiliser. Almost. The two places it goes wrong are density and hooping.
4 min read
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Needle Felting
Sculpt wool into animals, figures and decorations with barbed needles. Start with the basics, then work up to armatures, faces and fine detail.
Wet Felting
Warm water, soap and friction turn loose fibre into solid fabric. Learn layouts, shrinkage and resists for scarves, soaps, vessels and flat felt.
Nuno Felting
Felt merino through open-weave fabric to create light, drapey textiles. Fabric choice, fibre weight and migration, explained clearly.
Patterns
Printable templates, measurements and shaping guides you can follow exactly, or adapt once you know what the shapes are doing.
Tutorials
The core techniques, one skill at a time — each written as a sequence you can follow at the table with wool in your hands.
Supplies & Tools
Which needles, wool and mats are actually worth buying — what the gauges mean, what to skip, and what a starter kit really needs.
Tips & Troubleshooting
Fixes for the things that go wrong: fuzzy surfaces, broken needles, wool that will not felt, and shapes that refuse to hold.
Knitting
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.
Seasonal & Nature
Why leaves fall when they do, what a cobweb actually is, and the seasonal makes that follow from both.
Recipes
What to do with the pumpkin once it is carved — cooking from fresh, including the parts most people throw away.