Topic
What to look for, what things cost, and what is worth the money.
Seven felt hat shapes women actually wear, with brim widths in inches, how to pick one for your coat, your hair and your day rather than a face-shape chart, sizing over long or thick hair, and keeping a wool felt hat in shape.
8 min read
How to choose a felt cowboy hat and keep it in shape: wool felt against rabbit and beaver blends, what the X on the label does and does not tell you, crown creases and brim widths, sizing in inches, and what to do after rain.
9 min read
Angelina is a fine, glittering polyester fibre, and the heat-bondable kind fuses into sheets under an iron. Which type to buy, how to fuse it, and how to keep it from shedding out of wet and needle felted work.
5 min read Intermediate
Starter kit, project kit, wet felting kit and gift kit are four different purchases sold under one word. Which one suits what you want to make, what a needle felting kit should contain, and what almost every kit leaves out.
8 min read Beginner
Felted Sky is a family-run American maker of beginner needle felting kits. What the Sculpting with Wool boxes contain, the one thing to check before ordering, and how to keep going once the wool is gone.
6 min read Beginner
Combs remove short fibre and align the rest, which carders cannot do. What the pitch and tine count mean, which size to buy, and how to make a usable pair for very little.
4 min read Intermediate
A pen holds three to seven needles and covers ground several times faster than one. Where that speed is worth having, where it ruins the work, and which tool to buy.
5 min read Beginner
Halfway between merino and a carpet fleece, and better than either at most felting jobs. What corriedale is, how it behaves, and when merino is still the right answer.
5 min read Beginner
The cheap coarse wool that fills the inside of every needle felted sculpture. Why using merino for a core wastes both money and time, and what to buy instead.
7 min read Beginner
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.
4 min read Beginner
Felting books split into three kinds — technique manuals, project collections and artist monographs. Most people buy the second kind first and wish they had bought the first.
3 min read
