Topic
Combs remove short fibre and align the rest, which carders cannot do. What the pitch and tine count mean, which size to buy, and how to make a usable pair for very little.
4 min read Intermediate
Crochet felts more slowly than knitting and shrinks less predictably, because the stitches are thicker and lock the yarn tighter. Allow for both and it makes the sturdiest felted fabric there is.
4 min read Intermediate
Silk gauze, chiffon, muslin, scrim — how to judge whether a fabric will let wool through before you commit a project to it.
4 min read Intermediate
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
Wet felting makes bodies, not faces. Build the animal as a hollow form over a resist, full it hard, then dry-felt the detail on top — that combination is how the best felted animals are made.
4 min read Intermediate
Hand carders, the drum carder and the two methods that need no equipment at all. How wool colour mixing differs from paint, and why it does.
4 min read Intermediate
Felt shrinks by a third or more, and not evenly in both directions. How to measure your own shrinkage rate and size a project so it fits when it is finished.
4 min read Intermediate
Prefelt is wool stopped halfway — solid enough to cut into shapes, loose enough to still felt onto something else. It is the neatest way to get crisp detail into felt.
4 min read Intermediate
How to card wool with hand carders, what a good batt looks like, and why felters get more out of carding than spinners do — custom colour blends, mostly.
4 min read Intermediate
Dyeing your own fibre is cheaper than buying it dyed, gives colours nobody sells, and is easy to do badly — the one thing that ruins roving is agitation.
4 min read Intermediate
A felting machine is a sewing machine with no thread and twelve barbed needles. What it does well, what it cannot do at all, and whether you need one.
4 min read Intermediate
How to build a wire armature that lets a felted figure stand, bend and stay bent — and how to wrap it so the needles never meet the wire.
4 min read Intermediate
