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Beginner — page 3

Projects

Needle Felted Hedgehog

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

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

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

Tutorials

Felting Sweaters

A thrift-store sweater, shrunk on purpose, is the cheapest thick wool fabric there is. Which sweaters will felt, how to do it in a machine or by hand, and how to get a whole sweater used.

7 min read Beginner

Projects

Felted Heart

The shape everyone gets slightly wrong. Three ways to make a heart in wool, and the one adjustment that stops it looking like a leaf.

4 min read Beginner

Projects

Felt Valentine Crafts

Felt does not fray, cuts cleanly and comes in every red there is. A dozen Valentine projects sorted by how long they actually take.

4 min read Beginner

Patterns

Felt Cat Patterns

Felt does not fray, so a cat pattern is four shapes and no hemming. How to draw your own template, and what changes when the cat is going to be chewed.

6 min read Beginner

Supplies & Tools

Corriedale Wool

Halfway between merino and a carpet fleece, and better than either at most felting jobs. What corriedale is, how it behaves, and when merino is still the right answer.

5 min read Beginner

Supplies & Tools

Core Wool

The cheap coarse wool that fills the inside of every needle felted sculpture. Why using merino for a core wastes both money and time, and what to buy instead.

4 min read Beginner

Wet Felting

Best Soap for Felting

Soap does two jobs in wet felting — it lubricates and it raises the pH so the scales open. Which soaps do both, and why washing-up liquid is a compromise.

4 min read Beginner