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Needle Felted Angel

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

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Felted Heart

The shape everyone gets slightly wrong. Three ways to make a heart in wool, and the one adjustment that stops it looking like a leaf.

4 min read Beginner

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Needle Felted Horse

A horse is half body and half leg, and the wire skeleton settles that before any wool goes on. Build the barrel deeper than the legs are long and you have made a pony.

7 min read Intermediate

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Needle Felted Sheep

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

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Needle Felted Fox

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

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Needle Felted Bee

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

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Needle Felted Bear

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

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Needle Felted Bunny

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

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Needle Felted Pet Portraits

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

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Needle Felted Dog

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

Wet Felting

How to Make Felted Soap

Wrap a bar of soap in wool and felt it with your hands. The fastest way to understand wet felting, and the wool becomes a built-in washcloth that never slips.

4 min read Beginner

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Needle Felted Cat

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