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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
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
Speed comes from cutting motion, not from hurrying. The fastest knitters in the world move the yarn a few millimetres per stitch and never let go of the needle.
4 min read
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
Quilters and felters both buy wool batting and want opposite things from it. What the bonding and scrim on quilt wadding do, and why it will not felt.
3 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
Wool paintings are laid, not brushed, and they move when they get wet. How to compose a felted picture that still looks like your sketch afterwards.
4 min read Intermediate
A felted bowl is a closed pocket with a hole cut in the top. The making is easy; getting it to sit flat and hold its walls up is the part worth reading about.
4 min read Intermediate
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
A sheet of plastic between two layers of wool is the entire technique behind felted bags, bowls, hats and slippers. How to cut one, wrap it and get it out.
5 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
Everything in needle felting is one motion repeated. The difference between beginner work and good work is knowing which eight variations of it to use where.
4 min read Intermediate
