Quick Felting Projects to Make in an Evening

Needle Felted Hedgehog

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

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Needle Felted Turtle

A tortoise is a tall dome on four columns. A sea turtle is flat and wide with flippers. Most felted turtles are an unhappy average of the two.

7 min read Beginner

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Needle Felted Owl

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

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How to Make Fake Cobwebs

Stretched wadding, hot glue strings, a spinning drill and a hairspray-and-cotton trick. Which one to use depends on whether the web needs to hang, stick or survive rain.

3 min read Beginner

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Needle Felted Bee

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

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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

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Needle Felted Bunny

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

Wet Felting

How to Make Felted Soap

Wrap a bar of soap in wool and felt it with your hands. The fastest way to understand wet felting, and the wool becomes a built-in washcloth that never slips.

4 min read Beginner

Knitting

How to Knit a Leaf

A knitted leaf is a triangle worked twice — increase to the widest point, decrease back to a tip. Twenty-one rows, three stitches to start, and it works in any yarn you have.

4 min read Beginner