Projects
Needle Felted Sheep
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
Topic
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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
Projects
Needle Felted Owl
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
Projects
How to Make Fake Cobwebs
Stretched wadding, hot glue strings, a spinning drill and a hairspray-and-cotton trick. Which one to use depends on whether the web needs to hang, stick or survive rain.
3 min read Beginner
Projects
Needle Felted Bee
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
Projects
Needle Felted Animals for Beginners
Every felted animal is a few balls and sausages joined together. Learn the construction method that works for any creature, and which animals forgive beginners.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Needle Felted Easter Eggs
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
Projects
Needle Felted Bunny
Two balls, two ears and a tail. The simplest sculpture worth making, plus what to change to get a lop, a hare or a sitting rabbit that does not topple.
4 min read Beginner
Knitting
How to Cast On Knitting
Long-tail for almost everything, knitted-on when you are learning, cable when the edge must be firm, backward loop when you need three stitches in the middle of a row.
4 min read Beginner
Supplies & Tools
Felting Needles Explained
What the gauge number means, how triangle, star and reverse needles differ, and the smallest set that will cover everything a beginner makes.
4 min read
Supplies & Tools
Felting Supplies for Beginners
A starter kit that costs less than a takeaway, what to add once you know you like it, and the equipment that mostly sits in a drawer.
3 min read
Wet Felting
How to Make Felted Soap
Wrap a bar of soap in wool and felt it with your hands. The fastest way to understand wet felting, and the wool becomes a built-in washcloth that never slips.
4 min read Beginner