Topic
Makes you can finish in an evening.
How to make felted acorns the classic way, with real acorn caps: baking the caps to kill weevils, sizing a wool nut to each cap, gluing it with a hanging loop, and all-felt caps for when you have none. With a sizing table, garland spacing and ornament ideas.
9 min read Beginner
Felt snowflakes from a folded-paper template with six points, not eight: which felt holds open spokes, how to cut them cleanly, sizes and times, two-layer embroidered and beaded flakes, and spacing for a snowflake garland.
8 min read Beginner
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
A wool felt needle book with pinked pages, sized for three uses, sewn in an evening or made with a wet felted cover. Plus a felted wool pincushion: how much wool for each size, how firm to felt it, and tomato, strawberry, jar-lid and wrist versions.
8 min read Beginner
A smooth pebble wrapped in a few grams of wool and rubbed in soapy water until the felt shrinks tight onto it. How much wool each size of stone takes, the stocking trick, cut-open geode stones, and what felted stones are good for.
9 min read Beginner
Felt earrings that weigh almost nothing, brooches that sit upright, bead bracelets and necklaces: how dense to felt each one, how to fix the metal parts so they never pull out, and how to keep felt jewelry looking new.
8 min read Beginner
Which wool toys cats really play with, how hard to felt them so they survive claws and teeth, catnip versus silvervine, what to leave off, and a short note on dogs.
8 min read Beginner
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
