Knitting
Falling Leaves Knitting Pattern
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
Topic
Gifts — page 3
Needle Felting
Wool Painting
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
Supplies & Tools
Felt Machine Embroidery Designs
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
Wet Felting
How to Wet Felt a Scarf
A first wearable piece. How thin to lay the wool, how much length to add for shrinkage, and why a scarf needs less felting than you would think.
4 min read Intermediate
Projects
Felted Christmas Ornaments
Needle felted in the round or cut and stitched from felt sheet — the two routes to a felt ornament, which one suits which shape, and twelve designs sized so a whole set gets finished before December.
10 min read Beginner
Projects
How to Make Felt Mice
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
Wet Felting
Wet Felting a Bag
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
Projects
Felted Slippers
Felted slippers are made four different ways — knitted, crocheted, wet felted over a resist, or cut from an old jumper. Which one you should use depends on which craft you already have in your hands.
10 min read Intermediate
Tutorials
How to Make Felt Beads
Felt beads are small felt balls with a hole through them, and the hole is the difficult part. Three ways to make one that does not close up as the wool shrinks.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Wool Dryer Balls
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.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Felted Gnome
A gnome is a cone under a hat. Get the hat proportion right and it works; get it wrong and nothing else saves it. Includes a drawable flat pattern with real measurements.
9 min read Beginner
Projects
Felted Mushrooms
Two shapes, one join, and the gills underneath that make the difference between a mushroom and a red ball on a stick.
4 min read Beginner