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Felted Heart

The shape everyone gets slightly wrong. Three ways to make a heart in wool, and the one adjustment that stops it looking like a leaf.

4 min read Beginner

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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

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

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Needle Felted Angel

An angel is three shapes you already know how to make. Get the cone standing straight and the rest is decoration.

4 min read Beginner

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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

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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

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

Projects

Felt Bag Charms

A bag charm gets knocked against doorframes every day, so it has to be felted harder than it looks. Twenty minutes each, and a hardware fitting that will not shed it.

4 min read Beginner

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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

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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.

7 min read Beginner

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Wool Dryer Balls

Three balls of felted wool in a tumble dryer cut drying time by roughly a fifth and replace fabric softener entirely. Making them takes an afternoon.

5 min read Beginner