Projects
Needle Felted Pet Portraits
A portrait is not a better sculpture — it is a different problem. How to read a photograph, which four features carry the likeness, and what to charge.
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Topic
Advanced
Detailed, technique-heavy makes for experienced felters.
Needle Felting
Needle Felting Fur
Smooth felt looks like felt. Four methods for making a surface that reads as fur, and when each one is the right answer.
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Needle Felting
Needle Felted Face
Faces are made by taking wool away, not adding it. The order of operations that gets a head from a ball to a character, for animals and dolls alike.
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Projects
Felt Birkin Bag
Two different things go by this name — a felt tote in the Birkin silhouette, and the felt organiser that sits inside a real one. Both come down to how stiff the felt is.
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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.
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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.
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Supplies & Tools
Felt Hat Blanks
A hat blank is felt already shaped into a rough cone or capeline, waiting to be blocked. Which shape to buy, what the grades mean, and what it costs to start.
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