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Step-by-Step Felting 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.

Projects

Sweater Mittens

One felted jumper makes two or three pairs. The template, where to place it to use the cuffs, and the fleece lining that turns them from craft into kit.

4 min read Beginner

Projects

Felted Sweater Projects

One felted jumper is about half a square metre of thick, cut-friendly wool. Fifteen things to make from it, ordered by how much fabric each one needs.

4 min read Beginner

Patterns

Felt Cat Patterns

Felt does not fray, so a cat pattern is four shapes and no hemming. How to draw your own template, and what changes when the cat is going to be chewed.

6 min read Beginner

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

Projects

Felt Valentine Crafts

Felt does not fray, cuts cleanly and comes in every red there is. A dozen Valentine projects sorted by how long they actually take.

4 min read Beginner

Projects

Felt Bottle Bag

A wine bottle is its own resist. Wrap it in wool, felt it in place, and you get a sleeve that fits exactly — one evening, no pattern, no sewing.

4 min read Beginner

Wet Felting

Wet Felting for Beginners

Warm water, soap and friction turn loose fibre into cloth. Learn the layout, the rubbing, the fulling and the point where most beginners stop too early.

4 min read Beginner

Tutorials

Needle Felting Classes

Needle felting is the easiest fibre craft to teach yourself and one of the most rewarding to be taught, for one specific reason: someone can look at your work and tell you it is not dense enough.

3 min read Beginner

Needle Felting

Wool Painting

Flat needle felting onto a background, built up like an oil painting — dark to light, back to front. The method, the materials and the framing.

5 min read Intermediate

Tutorials

Wet Felting Classes

Guilds, craft schools, fibre festivals and studio makers run most of the teaching, and almost none of it shows up in a search for "classes near me". Here is where to actually look.

4 min read Beginner

Nuno Felting

Nuno Felting for Beginners

The technique that makes felt light enough to wear in warm weather. How wool migrates through an open weave, how much to use, and why less is always more.

4 min read Intermediate

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