Topic
Makes you can finish in an evening.
How to needle felt a snowman that stands up and looks right: the size ratio between the balls, how much wool it takes, keeping white wool clean, plus a hanging ornament and a sewn sheet felt snowman.
6 min read Beginner
How to make a felt garland that hangs properly: how many balls a length takes, how to get a needle through a hard felt ball, spacing that stays put, and Christmas, Halloween and Valentine versions.
8 min read Beginner
Three ways to make felt coasters that lie flat and do not lift with the mug: the right felt thickness, how many felt balls a coaster takes and how to sew them, and wet felted coasters with a design laid in.
5 min read Beginner
Nothing about a fish body says fish. The fins and tail do all the work, and they only work if the body underneath is a flattened teardrop rather than a sausage.
6 min read Beginner
A chick is two balls of wool and half an hour. A hen is the same two balls with a neck, a tail and a comb. Build them in that order, then make a nest of Easter chicks.
7 min read Beginner
One felted jumper makes two or three pairs. The template, where to place it to use the cuffs, and the fleece lining that turns them from craft into kit.
4 min read Beginner
An owl is a rounded cone with a face on the front. Why that makes it the easiest bird to felt, and how the facial disc turns a lump into a barn owl.
4 min read Beginner
The body takes twenty minutes. The spines take the rest, and there are four ways to make them — only two of which look right.
4 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
Two balls, two ears and a tail. The simplest sculpture worth making, plus what to change to get a lop, a hare or a sitting rabbit that does not topple.
4 min read Beginner
A striped oval with wings. Small, quick, sells well at craft fairs, and the one project where getting the stripes wrong ruins everything.
4 min read Beginner
