Supplies & Tools
Felting Needles Explained
What the gauge number means, how triangle, star and reverse needles differ, and the smallest set that will cover everything a beginner makes.
4 min read
Felting Supplies & Tool Guides
Which needles, wool and mats are actually worth buying — what the gauges mean, what to skip, and what a starter kit really needs.
Supplies & Tools
Felting Supplies for Beginners
A starter kit that costs less than a takeaway, what to add once you know you like it, and the equipment that mostly sits in a drawer.
3 min read
Wet Felting
Best Soap for Felting
Soap does two jobs in wet felting — it lubricates and it raises the pH so the scales open. Which soaps do both, and why washing-up liquid is a compromise.
4 min read Beginner
Supplies & Tools
Roving vs Top vs Batting
Three words for wool that has been prepared three different ways, used almost interchangeably by shops. What each really is, and which felts faster.
3 min read Beginner
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Best Wool for Felting
Merino, corriedale, core wool, batts and tops explained — which fibre felts fastest, which gives the best surface, and which will never felt at all.
4 min read
Supplies & Tools
Wool Locks
Wensleydale, teeswater and other longwool curls are sold as intact locks rather than tops. How to attach them, wash them and use them without losing the curl.
4 min read Intermediate
Supplies & Tools
Corriedale Wool
Halfway between merino and a carpet fleece, and better than either at most felting jobs. What corriedale is, how it behaves, and when merino is still the right answer.
3 min read Beginner
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Core Wool
The cheap coarse wool that fills the inside of every needle felted sculpture. Why using merino for a core wastes both money and time, and what to buy instead.
4 min read Beginner
Supplies & Tools
Industrial Felt Machines
Everything sold as felt by the metre came off one of three machines. A needle loom entangles the web, a hardening plate shrinks it, and a calender presses it to thickness.
4 min read
Supplies & Tools
Wool Blending Board
A board of carding cloth on a frame lets you paint a colour blend fibre by fibre and pull it off as a rolag. What it does that carders cannot, and how to build one.
4 min read Intermediate
Tips & Troubleshooting
Felt Hat Burn Test
Wool smoulders, smells of burnt hair and crushes to ash. Polyester melts into a hard bead. Thirty seconds and one loose fibre tells you what you actually bought.
3 min read
Needle Felting
Needle Felting Eyes
Eyes are the last thing you add and the first thing anyone looks at. The three types, how to sink them so they belong in the face, and the highlight that brings them alive.
4 min read Intermediate
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Other sections
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.
Projects
Complete makes with photos at every stage — animals, flowers, ornaments and home decorations, sorted by how much experience they need.
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.
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.