Tutorials
Dyeing Wool with Onion Skins
Onion skins give strong golds, ambers and rusts from something you throw away, and unusually among natural dyes they work without a mordant.
4 min read Intermediate
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Supplies & Tools
Alpaca Felting
Alpaca has fewer scales than sheep wool, so it felts more slowly and drapes far better. Where that trade-off helps, and where you should blend it with wool instead.
4 min read Intermediate
Supplies & Tools
Wool Felt Desk Mat
A slab of dense wool felt under a keyboard is quieter, warmer and kinder to a desk than any synthetic mat — provided it is the right thickness and actually wool.
4 min read Beginner
Supplies & Tools
Felting Yarn
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
Supplies & Tools
Wool Batting for Quilts
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
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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.
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.