Wet Felting
Wet Felting a Hat
A felted hat is a resist project with one unforgiving constraint — it has to fit a head. How to size the resist, and how to stop when it fits.
4 min read Advanced
Step-by-Step Felting Tutorials — page 4
Wet Felting
Wet Felting a Bag
A seamless felted bag, made from one resist, thick enough to carry a book. Includes the three ways of attaching handles that do not eventually rip out.
4 min read Intermediate
Tutorials
How to Make Felt Beads
Felt beads are small felt balls with a hole through them, and the hole is the difficult part. Three ways to make one that does not close up as the wool shrinks.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Wool Dryer Balls
Three balls of felted wool in a tumble dryer cut drying time by roughly a fifth and replace fabric softener entirely. Making them takes an afternoon.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Felted Gnome
A gnome is a cone, a beard and a hat, which makes it the easiest recognisable figure in needle felting — and the hat is the only part that needs thought.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Felted Mushrooms
Two shapes, one join, and the gills underneath that make the difference between a mushroom and a red ball on a stick.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Felted Pumpkins
The ribs are everything. Whether you needle felt or wet felt one, a pumpkin without deep segments is just an orange ball — and the fix is a length of thread.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Felt Ball Rug
Several hundred felt balls, a strong thread and a long evening. How many balls a rug actually needs, how to string them, and how to stop it curling.
4 min read Intermediate
Tips & Troubleshooting
Felting with Dog Hair
Undercoat felts, guard hair does not, and the difference decides whether you get a keepsake or a bag of fluff. How to collect, wash and work with it.
4 min read Intermediate
Tips & Troubleshooting
Felting with Cat Hair
Cat fur felts more readily than dog hair and gives you far less of it. What to make with the small amount you get, and the one safety point worth knowing.
4 min read Intermediate
Projects
Felted Rug
A wet felted rug is one enormous flat piece of felt. The making is simple; the thickness, the fulling and the floor it goes on are what decide whether it lasts.
4 min read Advanced
Projects
How to Make Felt Dolls
Two quite different crafts share the name: needle felted wool dolls, and dolls sewn from felt fabric. Both are beginner projects, and the choice changes everything.
4 min read Beginner
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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.
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.