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 5
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.
5 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
Needle Felting
Needle Felting Ideas for Beginners
Projects chosen by what they teach, not by how they look in a photograph — each one adds a skill you will use in everything you make afterwards.
3 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
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
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
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
Tips & Troubleshooting
Felting with Dog Hair
Undercoat felts, guard hair does not, and the difference decides whether you get a keepsake or a bag of fluff. How to collect, wash and work with it.
7 min read Intermediate
Tips & Troubleshooting
Felting with Cat Hair
Cat fur felts more readily than dog hair and gives you far less of it. What to make with the small amount you get, and the one safety point worth knowing.
4 min read Intermediate
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.
5 min read Beginner
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