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A thrift-store sweater, shrunk on purpose, is the cheapest thick wool fabric there is. Which sweaters will felt, how to do it in a machine or by hand, and how to get a whole sweater used.
7 min read Beginner
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
Knit an absurdly large wool bowl, shrink it by a third in a hot wash, and dry it over a form. The pattern, the arithmetic, and why the entrance is easier cut than knitted.
7 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
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
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
Felt is the easiest fabric an embroidery machine will ever meet — no fraying, no grain, and it is its own stabiliser. Almost. The two places it goes wrong are density and hooping.
4 min read
A bag charm gets knocked against doorframes every day, so it has to be felted harder than it looks. Twenty minutes each, and a hardware fitting that will not shed it.
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
Two complete patterns from one eleven-stitch leaf repeat — a straight scarf you can start tonight, and a top-down triangular shawl with a leaf border.
4 min read Intermediate
Three balls of felted wool in a tumble dryer cut drying time by roughly a fifth and replace fabric softener entirely. Making them takes an afternoon.
5 min read Beginner
A seamless felted bag, made from one resist, thick enough to carry a book. Includes the three ways of attaching handles that do not eventually rip out.
4 min read Intermediate
