Projects
How to Make Felt Food
Play food from felt is the rare craft where crude shapes work better than accurate ones — and where the sewn and needle felted methods each win at different foods.
3 min read Beginner
Step-by-Step Felting Tutorials — page 5
Tutorials
Felt Applique
Felt is the ideal appliqué material because it has no fraying edge. Which felt to use, how to hold shapes down while you stitch, and the four edge stitches worth knowing.
4 min read Beginner
Tutorials
How to Sew Beads on Felt
Felt is the best backing for bead embroidery there is — stable, unfraying and thick enough to bury a knot. The three stitches that hold beads, and how to finish the back.
4 min read Intermediate
Projects
Felted Christmas Balls
A tree full of wool baubles, made from about 4 g each, that survive being dropped by children and cats. Three methods, and how to hang them so the loop holds.
3 min read Beginner
Tutorials
Dyeing Wool with Food Colouring
Food colouring is an acid dye in everything but name. With vinegar and gentle heat it bonds permanently to wool, using pans you can still cook in afterwards.
4 min read Beginner
Tutorials
Dyeing Wool with Onion Skins
Onion skins give strong golds, ambers and rusts from something you throw away, and unusually among natural dyes they work without a mordant.
4 min read Intermediate
Tips & Troubleshooting
Dyeing a Wool Sweater
Dyeing a finished wool garment is the same chemistry as dyeing fibre, with one extra hazard — everything that makes the dye bond also makes wool felt.
4 min read Intermediate
Patterns
Felted Bag Knitting Pattern
A simple felted bag pattern with the arithmetic explained, so you can size it to any yarn instead of hoping somebody else's gauge matches yours.
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.