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Projects and guides that assume no prior felting experience.
How to make felted acorns the classic way, with real acorn caps: baking the caps to kill weevils, sizing a wool nut to each cap, gluing it with a hanging loop, and all-felt caps for when you have none. With a sizing table, garland spacing and ornament ideas.
9 min read Beginner
Felt snowflakes from a folded-paper template with six points, not eight: which felt holds open spokes, how to cut them cleanly, sizes and times, two-layer embroidered and beaded flakes, and spacing for a snowflake garland.
8 min read Beginner
A three-layer felt poinsettia pattern with bract sizes, a beaded center and a wire stem for picks and wreaths, plus a spiny holly leaf template, a holly garland layout and pale felt mistletoe with white berries.
8 min read Beginner
How to make felt letters: stuffed initial ornaments and flat letters for NOEL, JOY and name garlands. Letter sizes with felt and stuffing per letter, fonts that cut cleanly, the letters with awkward holes, freezer paper cutting, edge stitches, loops that hang straight, and garland spacing.
10 min read Beginner
Make a Christmas ornament that looks like your dog: trace a side-view photo into a felt pattern, show the ears, muzzle and tail of the breed, match the coat with layered felt patches, then add a ribbon collar, a name and the year. Plus a small needle felted version at ornament scale.
9 min read Beginner
A planner for felt Christmas decorations beyond the tree: wreaths, door hangers, garlands, stockings, tree skirts, advent calendars, napkin rings, place cards and gift tags, with time, skill and materials for each, and how to choose between sheet felt, needle felting and wet felting.
10 min read
Three ways to make a felt candy cane: a flat two-layer ornament with appliquéd stripes, a stuffed tube on a wire core with a wrapped stripe, and a twisted rope cane needle felted or wet felted from red and white wool. With sizes, stripe spacing and a hook that does not flop.
8 min read Beginner
Five felt bookmarks with real measurements: a heart corner bookmark from two 3 in triangles, a 2 × 6½ in strip with a tassel, animal heads that peek over the page, an elastic band, and a needle felted topper on a ribbon. Which felt to use so the spine is not strained, and how to keep glue off the pages.
8 min read Beginner
A wool felt needle book with pinked pages, sized for three uses, sewn in an evening or made with a wet felted cover. Plus a felted wool pincushion: how much wool for each size, how firm to felt it, and tomato, strawberry, jar-lid and wrist versions.
8 min read Beginner
A smooth pebble wrapped in a few grams of wool and rubbed in soapy water until the felt shrinks tight onto it. How much wool each size of stone takes, the stocking trick, cut-open geode stones, and what felted stones are good for.
9 min read Beginner
A 4 inch felt gingerbread man pattern with every piece measured, the cookie cutter trick for cutting it, white icing in rickrack or embroidery, and a needle felted version firmed inside the same cutter. Plus a gingerbread house ornament and a garland.
13 min read Beginner
Felt earrings that weigh almost nothing, brooches that sit upright, bead bracelets and necklaces: how dense to felt each one, how to fix the metal parts so they never pull out, and how to keep felt jewelry looking new.
8 min read Beginner
