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
Step-by-Step Felting Tutorials — page 3
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
Supplies & Tools
Prefelt Wool
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
Tutorials
Carding Wool by Hand
How to card wool with hand carders, what a good batt looks like, and why felters get more out of carding than spinners do — custom colour blends, mostly.
4 min read Intermediate
Tutorials
Dyeing Wool Roving
Dyeing your own fibre is cheaper than buying it dyed, gives colours nobody sells, and is easy to do badly — the one thing that ruins roving is agitation.
4 min read Intermediate
Needle Felting
Wire Armature for Needle Felting
How to build a wire armature that lets a felted figure stand, bend and stay bent — and how to wrap it so the needles never meet the wire.
4 min read Intermediate
Needle Felting
Needle Felting Techniques
Everything in needle felting is one motion repeated. The difference between beginner work and good work is knowing which eight variations of it to use where.
4 min read Intermediate
Needle Felting
Needle Felting on Fabric
Wool onto wool works beautifully. Wool onto cotton needs a trick, and wool onto a fleece jumper barely works at all. Which fabrics take needled fibre and why.
3 min read Intermediate
Wet Felting
Resist Felting
A sheet of plastic between two layers of wool is the entire technique behind felted bags, bowls, hats and slippers. How to cut one, wrap it and get it out.
4 min read Intermediate
Wet Felting
Cobweb Felting
Cobweb felt is wool laid so thinly it has holes in it on purpose — lace-light, full of gaps, and the most forgiving advanced technique in wet felting.
4 min read Intermediate
Wet Felting
Wet Felting Art
Wool paintings are laid, not brushed, and they move when they get wet. How to compose a felted picture that still looks like your sketch afterwards.
4 min read Intermediate
Tutorials
Felting in Knitting
Knit it huge and loose, wash it hot, and it becomes dense fabric that never frays. The rules for hitting a target size instead of a felted disappointment.
4 min read Intermediate
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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.