Topic
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
Wool onto wool works beautifully. Wool onto cotton needs a trick, and wool onto a fleece jumper barely works at all. Which fabrics take needled fibre and why.
3 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.
4 min read Intermediate
Cobweb felt is wool laid so thinly it has holes in it on purpose — lace-light, full of gaps, and the most forgiving advanced technique in wet felting.
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
Knit it huge and loose, wash it hot, and it becomes dense fabric that never frays. The rules for hitting a target size instead of a felted disappointment.
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
Two routes to felted slippers — knit them enormous and shrink them, or wet felt them over a resist. Plus the sole problem, which nobody warns you about.
4 min read Intermediate
Several hundred felt balls, a strong thread and a long evening. How many balls a rug actually needs, how to string them, and how to stop it curling.
4 min read Intermediate
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.
4 min read Intermediate
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
