Tutorials
How to Felt a Wool Sweater
Deliberately shrinking a jumper turns a charity shop find into thick, cut-friendly fabric. The settings that work, and the ones that produce a stiff board.
4 min read Beginner
Felting Tips & Troubleshooting
Fixes for the things that go wrong: fuzzy surfaces, broken needles, wool that will not felt, and shapes that refuse to hold.
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
Tips & Troubleshooting
Common Needle Felting Mistakes
Soft shapes, fuzzy surfaces, visible seams and snapped needles almost always trace back to the same handful of habits. Here is how to spot and fix each one.
4 min read Beginner
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
Supplies & Tools
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
Tips & Troubleshooting
Why Won't My Wool Felt?
Wool that stays fluffy after an hour of work is almost never a technique problem. Work through these seven causes in order and you will find it.
4 min read
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
Supplies & Tools
Felt Cutting Machine
Felt has no grain and no weave, which makes it ideal for machine cutting and awful for a blade that expects resistance. Which machine cuts which thickness, and the settings that actually work.
4 min read
Supplies & Tools
Felt Hat Accessories
A hat band changes the hat more than anything else you can buy for it. The rest of the list is care equipment — and two items on it save a hat that would otherwise be ruined.
3 min read
Tips & Troubleshooting
Protecting Wool from Moths
Moths eat keratin, and a fibre stash is a buffet. What actually kills eggs, why cedar and lavender are not enough, and how to store wool so it survives.
4 min read Beginner
Tips & Troubleshooting
Can You Wash Felt
Wool felt, craft felt and needle felted sculpture behave completely differently in water. How to wash each without destroying it.
4 min read Beginner
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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.
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.
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.