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How to Make Felt Dolls

Two quite different crafts share the name: needle felted wool dolls, and dolls sewn from felt fabric. Both are beginner projects, and the choice changes everything.

7 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

Tutorials

How to Felt Without a Felting Needle

Needles are one route to felt, and the newer one. Water, soap and friction do the whole job with nothing sharp involved: five methods with quantities, water temperatures and timings, and what to use if you only need a needle substitute.

5 min read Beginner

Supplies & Tools

Felting Yarn

Half of all felted knitting projects fail at the yarn shop. How to read a label, how to test a swatch, and which yarns felt hardest.

4 min read Beginner

Supplies & Tools

Felting Mat Alternatives

The mat only has one job: to receive the needle after it leaves the wool. How foam, brush and wool felting pads compare, how to make one, and which household stand-ins work and which snap needles.

5 min read Beginner

Tips & Troubleshooting

Felted Soap Benefits

A bar of soap wrapped in felt is a flannel and a soap dish in one. What it actually does for the bar, for your skin, and the hygiene question people always ask.

5 min read Beginner

Projects

Felted Pumpkins

The ribs are everything. Whether you needle felt or wet felt one, a pumpkin without deep segments is just an orange ball — and the fix is a length of thread.

4 min read Beginner

Projects

Felted Mushrooms

Two shapes, one join, and the gills underneath that make the difference between a mushroom and a red ball on a stick.

8 min read Beginner

Projects

Felted Gnome

A gnome is a cone under a hat. Get the hat proportion right and it works; get it wrong and nothing else saves it. Includes a drawable flat pattern with real measurements.

9 min read Beginner

Projects

Felted Christmas Balls

A tree full of wool baubles that survive being dropped by children and cats. Three methods, what each one actually weighs, and how to hang them so the loop holds.

4 min read Beginner

Supplies & Tools

Felt Rug Pads

A felt rug pad is not the same thing as a non-slip pad, and buying the wrong one is why rugs still creep across hardwood floors.

3 min read Beginner