Topic
Wet felting makes bodies, not faces. Build the animal as a hollow form over a resist, full it hard, then dry-felt the detail on top — that combination is how the best felted animals are made.
4 min read Intermediate
A mouse is one shape. Get the teardrop right — fat at the back, tapering to a point at the nose — and the ears, tail and eyes take five minutes.
4 min read Beginner
The animal is the easy part. The reason most felt hair clips end up in the bin is the join between the felt and the metal, and glue is never the answer.
4 min read Beginner
How to build a wire armature that lets a felted figure stand, bend and stay bent — and how to wrap it so the needles never meet the wire.
4 min read Intermediate
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.
10 min read Beginner
