Corriedale for almost everything, cheap carded wool for the inside, merino only where it shows. Which roving suits needle felting, what it costs, and how to work out how much a project actually needs.
7 min read Beginner
Roving is not only for felting. Weaving, spinning, doll hair, punch needle and wreaths all take loose wool, and several of them need no equipment at all.
7 min read Beginner
Pure wool felt, wool blend and acrylic craft felt look almost identical on a shelf and behave nothing alike. What the labels mean and what each is good for.
3 min read Beginner
Quilters and felters both buy wool batting and want opposite things from it. What the bonding and scrim on quilt wadding do, and why it will not felt.
3 min read Intermediate
Carded batts felt faster than combed tops and cost less per gram. What batting is, which kind to buy, and why quilters and felters want different things from it.
4 min read Beginner
Prefelt is wool stopped halfway — solid enough to cut into shapes, loose enough to still felt onto something else. It is the neatest way to get crisp detail into felt.
4 min read Intermediate
Merino is the fibre most felting shops sell most of, and it is the wrong choice for about half the projects people buy it for. Here is the split.
4 min read Beginner
Wool prickle is a mechanical effect with a measurable threshold, not an allergy. Where merino sits on that scale, and why felting changes how it feels.
3 min read Beginner
Half of all felted knitting projects fail at the yarn shop. How to read a label, how to test a swatch, and which yarns felt hardest.
4 min read Beginner
The mat only has one job: to receive the needle after it leaves the wool. How foam, brush and wool felting pads compare, how to make one, and which household stand-ins work and which snap needles.
5 min read Beginner
A felting machine is a sewing machine with no thread and twelve barbed needles. What it does well, what it cannot do at all, and whether you need one.
4 min read Intermediate
A felt rug pad is not the same thing as a non-slip pad, and buying the wrong one is why rugs still creep across hardwood floors.
3 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.
Complete makes with photos at every stage — animals, flowers, ornaments and home decorations, sorted by how much experience they need.
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.
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.
