Topic
Felted creatures, from simple rounded shapes to detailed sculptures.
Three ways to make a felt reindeer: a flat sewn ornament with stiff antlers and a Rudolph nose, a round reindeer face, and a needle felted standing reindeer on a wire frame. With a reindeer vs deer proportions table.
10 min read Intermediate
How to needle felt a polar bear that doesn't look like a white teddy: the long neck, low-set ears, Roman nose and missing shoulder hump, which white wool to use and how to keep it clean, wool weights for a 3 in ornament and a 5 in standing bear, and a flat felt ornament pattern.
10 min read Intermediate
How to make a dressed Christmas mouse ornament that hangs upright: a needle felted mouse with wire in its arms so it can hold a candy cane or a gift, a sewn version from sheet felt with every piece measured, plus ears, tails, tiny sweaters and scarves.
10 min read Intermediate
Make a Christmas ornament that looks like your dog: trace a side-view photo into a felt pattern, show the ears, muzzle and tail of the breed, match the coat with layered felt patches, then add a ribbon collar, a name and the year. Plus a small needle felted version at ornament scale.
9 min read Beginner
Sitting up on its big hind feet, a squirrel is mostly tail: nearly as long as the rest of it, curving up the back. How to wire and furnish that tail, shape the sitting pose, fit the paws round an acorn, and colour a grey or a red squirrel.
9 min read Intermediate
Most of a dragon's outline is neck, tail and wing rather than body, so the pose and the wire decide the build. Which pose balances, wire gauges, wool weights for three sizes, wired wings, scales, spines, horns, eyes and colours.
9 min read Advanced
Four thin wings felted flat on a foam pad, a wire along each front edge so they hold a pose, and a body with clubbed antennae. Sizes, wool weights, monarch markings and five other species, plus brooch, clip and plant pick mounts.
13 min read Intermediate
How to needle felt a bird: the teardrop body every small bird shares, the markings that turn it into a cardinal, chickadee, bluebird or robin, wire legs, and felt bird ornaments that hang level.
7 min read Intermediate
Tortoise or sea turtle is the first decision, because they differ in every part. How to felt a firm shell as its own piece, mark the plates, build either animal, and sew a patchwork felt turtle from sheet felt.
7 min read Beginner
Felted pigs go wrong in two predictable ways: a dip above the snout that makes a bear, and pink wool that makes a sweet. How to avoid both, which ears belong to which breed, and how much wool a piglet really takes.
6 min read Beginner
A felted penguin is two colours and one line between them. How to keep that line sharp instead of grey, what changes between an emperor, a gentoo and a little blue, and a felt penguin ornament for the tree.
7 min read Beginner
A needle felted horse is decided on paper before any wool: legs as long as the body is deep. How to set that in wire, build the head and mane, and make a flat felt rocking horse or Dala horse ornament.
7 min read Intermediate
