Patterns
Felt Cat Patterns
Felt does not fray, so a cat pattern is four shapes and no hemming. How to draw your own template, and what changes when the cat is going to be chewed.
6 min read Beginner
Topic
Kids Crafts
Felting projects safe and simple enough to make with children.
Projects
Felt Animal Hair Clips
The animal is the easy part. The reason most felt hair clips end up in the bin is the join between the felt and the metal, and glue is never the answer.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Felt Valentine Crafts
Felt does not fray, cuts cleanly and comes in every red there is. A dozen Valentine projects sorted by how long they actually take.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Needle Felted Easter Eggs
A wooden egg wrapped in wool takes ten minutes; a solid felted one takes forty. Both methods, plus the decoration that stops them looking like coloured lumps.
4 min read Beginner
Tutorials
How to Make Felt Balls
The wet felting method for wool balls: fast, repeatable and much better than needle felting when you need a garland's worth rather than one.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
How to Make Felt Mice
A mouse is one shape. Get the teardrop right — fat at the back, tapering to a point at the nose — and the ears, tail and eyes take five minutes.
4 min read Beginner
Tips & Troubleshooting
Is Needle Felting Dangerous
The honest answer: you will stab yourself, it will hurt, and that is the whole of the risk for most people. Here is what to do about it and the two rarer concerns.
4 min read Beginner
Tutorials
How to Felt Without a Felting Needle
Needles are one route to felt, and the newer one. Water, soap, friction and a washing machine do the whole job with nothing sharp involved.
3 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
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
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.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Wool Roving Crafts
Roving is not only for felting. Weaving, spinning, doll hair, punch needle and wreaths all take loose wool, and several of them need no equipment at all.
3 min read Beginner