Tips & Troubleshooting
Why Won't My Wool Felt?
Wool that stays fluffy after an hour of work is almost never a technique problem. Work through these seven causes in order and you will find it.
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Wet Felting
Wet Felting for Beginners
Warm water, soap and friction turn loose fibre into cloth. Learn the layout, the rubbing, the fulling and the point where most beginners stop too early.
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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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Needle Felting
Needle Felting for Beginners
How the barbs actually work, which of the four needle gauges to reach for, how to hold and angle the needle, how to join one piece to another, and a first project that teaches all of it.
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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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Projects
Needle Felted Animals for Beginners
Nineteen animals on this site and about five shapes between them. The construction method that builds all of them, and the order to make them in so each one teaches the next.
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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
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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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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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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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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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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