Topic
Felted ornaments, decorations and gifts for the festive season.
A hanging animal is seen from every side and has to balance on one cord. What that means for the loop position, the weight, and how much detail is worth felting.
11 min read Intermediate
Felt does not fray, so a cat pattern is four shapes and no hemming. How to draw your own template, and what changes when the cat is going to be chewed.
6 min read Beginner
A star is the least forgiving ornament shape there is, because the eye measures the five points against each other. Draw the template properly and the rest is twenty minutes of cutting and stitching.
10 min read Beginner
A penguin is two colours meeting along one line, and that line has to be sharp. Blend the black into the white and you get a grey smudge that no amount of extra work will fix.
6 min read Beginner
An angel is three shapes you already know how to make. Get the cone standing straight and the rest is decoration.
4 min read Beginner
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
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
Two shapes, one join, and the gills underneath that make the difference between a mushroom and a red ball on a stick.
4 min read Beginner
Felt is the best backing for bead embroidery there is — stable, unfraying and thick enough to bury a knot. The three stitches that hold beads, and how to finish the back.
4 min read Intermediate
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
