Needle Felting
How to Needle Felt a Ball
The foundation shape behind almost every felted figure. Learn how to build a ball that is genuinely round, genuinely firm, and smooth on the surface.
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Topic
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Tips & Troubleshooting
Protecting Wool from Moths
Moths eat keratin, and a fibre stash is a buffet. What actually kills eggs, why cedar and lavender are not enough, and how to store wool so it survives.
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Tutorials
How to Make Felt Balls
The wet felting method for wool balls: fast, repeatable and much better than needle felting when you need a garland's worth rather than one.
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Wet Felting
Wet Felting Books
Felting books split into three kinds — technique manuals, project collections and artist monographs. Most people buy the second kind first and wish they had bought the first.
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Supplies & Tools
Needle Felting Pen
A pen holds three to seven needles and covers ground several times faster than one. Where that speed is worth having, where it ruins the work, and which tool to buy.
4 min read Beginner
Tips & Troubleshooting
Can You Wash Felt
Wool felt, craft felt and needle felted sculpture behave completely differently in water. How to wash each without destroying it.
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Tips & Troubleshooting
What Is Felting
Wool is the only common fibre that permanently tangles itself into cloth. What actually happens to the fibre, and the four different crafts that all get called felting.
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Wet Felting
Bamboo Mat for Felting
The mat is not padding. Its ridges grip the wool through the plastic and shear it slightly with every roll, and that shear is what turns a fragile web into fabric.
3 min read Beginner
Tips & Troubleshooting
Why Felting Needles Break
Needles almost never break because they were cheap. Four habits account for nearly every snapped needle, and all four are easy to unlearn.
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Patterns
Felting Patterns for Beginners
What a felting pattern actually contains, why templates must be drawn oversized, and how to adapt any pattern to the wool you have.
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Projects
Felted Christmas Ornaments
Baubles, puddings, robins, stars and garlands — ornaments built from the two or three shapes you already know, sized so a set gets done before December.
4 min read Beginner
Supplies & Tools
Wool Roving for Felting
What roving is, how it differs from tops and batts, which breeds are sold in it, and how much you need before you spend money on the wrong fibre.
4 min read Beginner