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.
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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.
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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.
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Tips & Troubleshooting
Common Needle Felting Mistakes
Soft shapes, fuzzy surfaces, visible seams and snapped needles almost always trace back to the same handful of habits. Here is how to spot and fix each one.
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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.
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Knitting
Autumn Leaves Knitting Pattern
One eleven-stitch repeat, one right-side row to remember, and every wrong-side row purled. It makes columns of leaves — or, with four plain rows between, leaves scattered across the fabric.
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Supplies & Tools
Roving vs Top vs Batting
Three words for wool that has been prepared three different ways, used almost interchangeably by shops. What each really is, and which felts faster.
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Knitting
How to Knit a Leaf
A knitted leaf is a triangle worked twice — increase to the widest point, decrease back to a tip. Twenty-one rows, three stitches to start, and it works in any yarn you have.
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Supplies & Tools
Best Wool for Felting
Merino, corriedale, core wool, batts and tops explained — which fibre felts fastest, which gives the best surface, and which will never felt at all.
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Tutorials
Needle Felting Classes
Needle felting is the easiest fibre craft to teach yourself and one of the most rewarding to be taught, for one specific reason: someone can look at your work and tell you it is not dense enough.
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Projects
How to Needle Felt Flowers
Petals, centres, leaves and stems. The flat-shape technique that makes botanical work fast, and why irregularity is an advantage here.
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Tutorials
Wet Felting Classes
Guilds, craft schools, fibre festivals and studio makers run most of the teaching, and almost none of it shows up in a search for "classes near me". Here is where to actually look.
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