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
Step-by-Step Felting Tutorials — page 5
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
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 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
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.
7 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
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
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
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
Needle Felting
Needle Felting for Beginners
How the barbs actually work, which of the four needle gauges to reach for, how to hold and angle the needle, how to join one piece to another, and a first project that teaches all of it.
10 min read Beginner
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
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
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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.