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Gifts — page 4

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Felted Pumpkins

The ribs are everything. Whether you needle felt or wet felt one, a pumpkin without deep segments is just an orange ball — and the fix is a length of thread.

4 min read Beginner

Tips & Troubleshooting

Felted Soap Benefits

A bar of soap wrapped in felt is a flannel and a soap dish in one. What it actually does for the bar, for your skin, and the hygiene question people always ask.

4 min read Beginner

Projects

How to Make Felt Dolls

Two quite different crafts share the name: needle felted wool dolls, and dolls sewn from felt fabric. Both are beginner projects, and the choice changes everything.

7 min read Beginner

Projects

How to Make Felt Food

Play food from felt is the rare craft where crude shapes work better than accurate ones — and where the sewn and needle felted methods each win at different foods.

3 min read Beginner

Tutorials

Felt Applique

Felt is the ideal appliqué material because it has no fraying edge. Which felt to use, how to hold shapes down while you stitch, and the four edge stitches worth knowing.

4 min read Beginner

Tutorials

How to Sew Beads on Felt

Felt is the best backing for bead embroidery there is — stable, unfraying and thick enough to bury a knot. The three stitches that hold beads, and how to finish the back.

4 min read Intermediate

Projects

Felted Christmas Balls

A tree full of wool baubles that survive being dropped by children and cats. Three methods, what each one actually weighs, and how to hang them so the loop holds.

4 min read Beginner

Supplies & Tools

Wool Felt Desk Mat

A slab of dense wool felt under a keyboard is quieter, warmer and kinder to a desk than any synthetic mat — provided it is the right thickness and actually wool.

4 min read Beginner

Patterns

Felted Bag Knitting Pattern

A simple felted bag pattern with the arithmetic explained, so you can size it to any yarn instead of hoping somebody else's gauge matches yours.

4 min read Intermediate