A pig skull runs in one straight line from between the eyes to the end of the snout. Leave a step where the forehead meets the nose and you have built a small pink bear instead.
7 min read Beginner
The body takes twenty minutes. The spines take the rest, and there are four ways to make them — only two of which look right.
4 min read Beginner
A horse is half body and half leg, and the wire skeleton settles that before any wool goes on. Build the barrel deeper than the legs are long and you have made a pony.
7 min read Intermediate
The one animal where the material and the subject are the same thing. How to build the body, and why curly locks beat any amount of needling for the fleece.
4 min read Beginner
A tortoise is a tall dome on four columns. A sea turtle is flat and wide with flippers. Most felted turtles are an unhappy average of the two.
7 min read Beginner
Foxes are made of triangles — a wedge head, pointed ears, a sharp muzzle — and one enormous tail. Get the wedge right and the rest follows.
4 min read Intermediate
An owl is a rounded cone with a face on the front. Why that makes it the easiest bird to felt, and how the facial disc turns a lump into a barn owl.
4 min read Beginner
A cow face ends in a broad flat pad, wider than the bridge of the nose above it. Taper the face towards the nose instead and you have made a deer in Holstein markings.
7 min read Intermediate
A fawn is the version worth making. The legs are too fine to stand without an armature, and the spots have to be pressed in as separate dots at the very end.
7 min read Beginner
A striped oval with wings. Small, quick, sells well at craft fairs, and the one project where getting the stripes wrong ruins everything.
4 min read Beginner
Nineteen animals on this site and about five shapes between them. The construction method that builds all of them, and the order to make them in so each one teaches the next.
10 min read Beginner
A wooden egg wrapped in wool takes ten minutes; a solid felted one takes forty. Both methods, plus the decoration that stops them looking like coloured lumps.
4 min read Beginner
Warm water, soap and friction turn loose fibre into solid fabric. Learn layouts, shrinkage and resists for scarves, soaps, vessels and flat felt.
Felt merino through open-weave fabric to create light, drapey textiles. Fabric choice, fibre weight and migration, explained clearly.
Complete makes with photos at every stage — animals, flowers, ornaments and home decorations, sorted by how much experience they need.
Printable templates, measurements and shaping guides you can follow exactly, or adapt once you know what the shapes are doing.
The core techniques, one skill at a time — each written as a sequence you can follow at the table with wool in your hands.
Which needles, wool and mats are actually worth buying — what the gauges mean, what to skip, and what a starter kit really needs.
Fixes for the things that go wrong: fuzzy surfaces, broken needles, wool that will not felt, and shapes that refuse to hold.
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.
Why leaves fall when they do, what a cobweb actually is, and the seasonal makes that follow from both.
What to do with the pumpkin once it is carved — cooking from fresh, including the parts most people throw away.
