Topic
Crochet loses 20 to 30% in the wash where knitting loses 30 to 40%. Every measurement, hook size and cycle length on a crochet slipper follows from that one difference.
10 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
The highest point of a brown bear is its shoulder, not its head. Build the muscle hump over the shoulder blades, dish the face and pull the snout out long, and it stops being a teddy.
7 min read Intermediate
Flat needle felting onto a background, built up like an oil painting — dark to light, back to front. The method, the materials and the framing.
5 min read Intermediate
One felted jumper makes two or three pairs. The template, where to place it to use the cuffs, and the fleece lining that turns them from craft into kit.
4 min read Beginner
The one animal where the material and the subject are the same thing. How to build the body, and why curly locks beat any amount of needling for the fleece.
4 min read Beginner
Foxes are made of triangles — a wedge head, pointed ears, a sharp muzzle — and one enormous tail. Get the wedge right and the rest follows.
4 min read Intermediate
One armature and one method covers every breed. What actually changes between a dachshund and a labrador, and the four measurements that make a dog recognisable.
5 min read Intermediate
A portrait is not a better sculpture — it is a different problem. How to read a photograph, which four features carry the likeness, and what to charge.
4 min read Advanced
Cats read as cats because of the skull, not the fur. The proportions that make the difference, plus ears, whiskers and the sleeping pose that hides every hard part.
6 min read Intermediate
Two balls, two ears and a tail. The simplest sculpture worth making, plus what to change to get a lop, a hare or a sitting rabbit that does not topple.
4 min read Beginner
A striped oval with wings. Small, quick, sells well at craft fairs, and the one project where getting the stripes wrong ruins everything.
4 min read Beginner
