Needle Felting
Needle Felting Fur
Smooth felt looks like felt. Four methods for making a surface that reads as fur, and when each one is the right answer.
4 min read Advanced
Step-by-Step Felting Tutorials — page 2
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
Needle Felting
Needle Felted Face
Faces are made by taking wool away, not adding it. The order of operations that gets a head from a ball to a character, for animals and dolls alike.
4 min read Advanced
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
Needle Felting
How to Needle Felt a Ball
The foundation shape behind almost every felted figure. Learn how to build a ball that is genuinely round, genuinely firm, and smooth on the surface.
4 min read Beginner
Supplies & Tools
Wool Combs
Combs remove short fibre and align the rest, which carders cannot do. What the pitch and tine count mean, which size to buy, and how to make a usable pair for very little.
4 min read Intermediate
Tutorials
Felting Crochet
Crochet felts more slowly than knitting and shrinks less predictably, because the stitches are thicker and lock the yarn tighter. Allow for both and it makes the sturdiest felted fabric there is.
4 min read Intermediate
Tutorials
How to Make Felt Balls
The wet felting method for wool balls: fast, repeatable and much better than needle felting when you need a garland's worth rather than one.
4 min read Beginner
Wet Felting
Wet Felting Animals
Wet felting makes bodies, not faces. Build the animal as a hollow form over a resist, full it hard, then dry-felt the detail on top — that combination is how the best felted animals are made.
4 min read Intermediate
Tutorials
How to Blend Wool Colours
Hand carders, the drum carder and the two methods that need no equipment at all. How wool colour mixing differs from paint, and why it does.
4 min read Intermediate
Patterns
Felting Patterns for Beginners
What a felting pattern actually contains, why templates must be drawn oversized, and how to adapt any pattern to the wool you have.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
How to Make Felt Mice
A mouse is one shape. Get the teardrop right — fat at the back, tapering to a point at the nose — and the ears, tail and eyes take five minutes.
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.
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.
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.