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Quick Projects — page 3

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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

Projects

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.

5 min read Beginner

Projects

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

Projects

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

Projects

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

Projects

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

Projects

How to Make Felt Food

Play food from felt is the rare craft where crude shapes work better than accurate ones — and where the sewn and needle felted methods each win at different foods.

3 min read Beginner

Tutorials

How to Make Felt Beads

Felt beads are small felt balls with a hole through them, and the hole is the difficult part. Three ways to make one that does not close up as the wool shrinks.

4 min read Beginner

Tutorials

How to Felt Without a Felting Needle

Needles are one route to felt, and the newer one. Water, soap and friction do the whole job with nothing sharp involved: five methods with quantities, water temperatures and timings, and what to use if you only need a needle substitute.

5 min read Beginner