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Next steps once the basic techniques feel comfortable.
A symptom-by-symptom troubleshooting guide for nuno felting: wool that will not migrate through silk, wool that lifts after drying, bald patches, uneven ruffles, wavy edges, color bleeding, fabric that is not really silk, and how much nuno shrinks.
9 min read
How to size, build and mount a felt tree topper: a two-layer or five-panel stuffed star, a felt angel on a cone, or a needle felted star, with the sleeve that fits over the top shoot and the stiffening that stops it drooping.
10 min read Intermediate
Three ways to make a felt reindeer: a flat sewn ornament with stiff antlers and a Rudolph nose, a round reindeer face, and a needle felted standing reindeer on a wire frame. With a reindeer vs deer proportions table.
10 min read Intermediate
Small felt purses three ways: a coin purse and zip pouch sewn from 3 mm wool felt with no hems, a seamless wet felted purse with the resist math worked out, and a knitted purse felted in the washer. Closures, straps, needle felted decoration and care.
8 min read Intermediate
How to needle felt a polar bear that doesn't look like a white teddy: the long neck, low-set ears, Roman nose and missing shoulder hump, which white wool to use and how to keep it clean, wool weights for a 3 in ornament and a 5 in standing bear, and a flat felt ornament pattern.
10 min read Intermediate
How to make a felt nativity three ways: a set of flat ornaments or a garland built from simple shapes, a felt board nativity that small children can arrange, and needle felted cone figures. With a full piece list and a stable backdrop.
9 min read Intermediate
How to make a dressed Christmas mouse ornament that hangs upright: a needle felted mouse with wire in its arms so it can hold a candy cane or a gift, a sewn version from sheet felt with every piece measured, plus ears, tails, tiny sweaters and scarves.
10 min read Intermediate
How to make a felt advent calendar three ways: a 28 x 24 in wall hanging with 24 numbered pockets, a felt wall tree with a pocket strip of ornaments underneath, and 24 mini stockings on a string, with the sheet count worked out, three ways to make the numbers, and fillings that are not candy.
9 min read Intermediate
Sitting up on its big hind feet, a squirrel is mostly tail: nearly as long as the rest of it, curving up the back. How to wire and furnish that tail, shape the sitting pose, fit the paws round an acorn, and colour a grey or a red squirrel.
9 min read Intermediate
Mohair felts slowly and loosely on its own, which is exactly why its locks keep their curl on a felted surface. Kid, yearling and adult grades, blending with merino, attaching locks for doll hair and Santa beards, mohair yarn in wet and nuno felting, and washing locks safely.
8 min read Intermediate
Four thin wings felted flat on a foam pad, a wire along each front edge so they hold a pose, and a body with clubbed antennae. Sizes, wool weights, monarch markings and five other species, plus brooch, clip and plant pick mounts.
13 min read Intermediate
How to make a felted vest with no seams: nuno or all wool, measuring and sizing the resist so it shrinks to fit, how much wool to buy, cutting the neck and armholes, and fulling it to size on your own body.
8 min read Intermediate
