Projects
How to Make Felt Mice
A mouse is one shape. Get the teardrop right — fat at the back, tapering to a point at the nose — and the ears, tail and eyes take five minutes.
4 min read Beginner
Topic
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Supplies & Tools
Merino Wool for Felting
Merino is the fibre most felting shops sell most of, and it is the wrong choice for about half the projects people buy it for. Here is the split.
4 min read Beginner
Supplies & Tools
Wool Batting for Felting
Carded batts felt faster than combed tops and cost less per gram. What batting is, which kind to buy, and why quilters and felters want different things from it.
4 min read Beginner
Supplies & Tools
Wool Felt Fabric
Pure wool felt, wool blend and acrylic craft felt look almost identical on a shelf and behave nothing alike. What the labels mean and what each is good for.
3 min read Beginner
Tips & Troubleshooting
What Is Felted Fabric
Three materials, three processes, one confusing set of names. How felted fabric is made, how it differs from felt, and why boiled wool is neither exactly.
3 min read Beginner
Tips & Troubleshooting
Is Merino Wool Itchy
Wool prickle is a mechanical effect with a measurable threshold, not an allergy. Where merino sits on that scale, and why felting changes how it feels.
3 min read Beginner
Supplies & Tools
Felting Mat Alternatives
The mat only has one job — to receive the needle after it leaves the wool. Several things in your house already do it, and some do it better than foam.
3 min read Beginner
Tips & Troubleshooting
Is Needle Felting Dangerous
The honest answer: you will stab yourself, it will hurt, and that is the whole of the risk for most people. Here is what to do about it and the two rarer concerns.
4 min read Beginner
Tutorials
How to Felt Without a Felting Needle
Needles are one route to felt, and the newer one. Water, soap, friction and a washing machine do the whole job with nothing sharp involved.
3 min read Beginner
Tutorials
How to Make Felt Beads
Felt beads are small felt balls with a hole through them, and the hole is the difficult part. Three ways to make one that does not close up as the wool shrinks.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Wool Dryer Balls
Three balls of felted wool in a tumble dryer cut drying time by roughly a fifth and replace fabric softener entirely. Making them takes an afternoon.
4 min read Beginner
Tips & Troubleshooting
Wool Dryer Balls vs Dryer Sheets
One softens fabric by beating it, the other by coating it in a waxy film. That single difference decides which is better for towels, sportswear and your dryer.
3 min read Beginner