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.
4 min read Beginner
Topic
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Projects
Felted Christmas Ornaments
Needle felted in the round or cut and stitched from felt sheet — the two routes to a felt ornament, which one suits which shape, and twelve designs sized so a whole set gets finished before December.
10 min read Beginner
Supplies & Tools
Wool Roving for Felting
Corriedale for almost everything, cheap carded wool for the inside, merino only where it shows. Which roving suits needle felting, what it costs, and how to work out how much a project actually needs.
7 min read Beginner
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
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
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