Tutorials
Felt Applique
Felt is the ideal appliqué material because it has no fraying edge. Which felt to use, how to hold shapes down while you stitch, and the four edge stitches worth knowing.
4 min read Beginner
Felting Projects to Make — page 7
Wet Felting
Cobweb Felting
Cobweb felt is wool laid so thinly it has holes in it on purpose — lace-light, full of gaps, and the most forgiving advanced technique in wet felting.
4 min read Intermediate
Projects
How to Needle Felt Flowers
Petals, centres, leaves and stems. The flat-shape technique that makes botanical work fast, and why irregularity is an advantage here.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Needle Felted Animals for Beginners
Nineteen animals on this site and about five shapes between them. The construction method that builds all of them, and the order to make them in so each one teaches the next.
10 min read Beginner
Wet Felting
How to Make Felted Soap
Wrap a bar of soap in wool and felt it with your hands. The fastest way to understand wet felting, and the wool becomes a built-in washcloth that never slips.
4 min read Beginner
Wet Felting
How to Wet Felt a Scarf
A first wearable piece. How thin to lay the wool, how much length to add for shrinkage, and why a scarf needs less felting than you would think.
4 min read Intermediate
Tutorials
How to Make Felt Balls
The wet felting method for wool balls: fast, repeatable and much better than needle felting when you need a garland's worth rather than one.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Felted Christmas Ornaments
Needle felted in the round or cut and stitched from felt sheet: the two routes to a felt ornament, a star template that comes out even, animals that hang level, and twelve designs sized so a whole set gets finished before December.
17 min read Beginner
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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.