Topic
Felting projects safe and simple enough to make with children.
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 felt letters: stuffed initial ornaments and flat letters for NOEL, JOY and name garlands. Letter sizes with felt and stuffing per letter, fonts that cut cleanly, the letters with awkward holes, freezer paper cutting, edge stitches, loops that hang straight, and garland spacing.
10 min read Beginner
Three ways to make a felt candy cane: a flat two-layer ornament with appliquéd stripes, a stuffed tube on a wire core with a wrapped stripe, and a twisted rope cane needle felted or wet felted from red and white wool. With sizes, stripe spacing and a hook that does not flop.
8 min read Beginner
Five felt bookmarks with real measurements: a heart corner bookmark from two 3 in triangles, a 2 × 6½ in strip with a tassel, animal heads that peek over the page, an elastic band, and a needle felted topper on a ribbon. Which felt to use so the spine is not strained, and how to keep glue off the pages.
8 min read Beginner
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
A 4 inch felt gingerbread man pattern with every piece measured, the cookie cutter trick for cutting it, white icing in rickrack or embroidery, and a needle felted version firmed inside the same cutter. Plus a gingerbread house ornament and a garland.
13 min read Beginner
How to make a felt mobile for a nursery or a window: choosing a hoop, branch or crossbar, what to hang and how heavy it is, drop lengths that look right from below, balancing it, and hanging it safely over a crib.
6 min read Beginner
How to make a felt Christmas tree, from the children's wall tree with detachable ornaments to felted cones and tabletop trees, with sizes, materials and what holds the ornaments on.
8 min read Beginner
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
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
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
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.
5 min read Beginner
