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.
4 min read Beginner
Topic
Quick Projects — page 3
Tutorials
How to Felt Without a Felting Needle
Needles are one route to felt, and the newer one. Water, soap, friction and a washing machine do the whole job with nothing sharp involved.
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
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.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Felted Gnome
A gnome is a cone under a hat. Get the hat proportion right and it works; get it wrong and nothing else saves it. Includes a drawable flat pattern with real measurements.
9 min read Beginner
Projects
Felted Mushrooms
Two shapes, one join, and the gills underneath that make the difference between a mushroom and a red ball on a stick.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Felted Pumpkins
The ribs are everything. Whether you needle felt or wet felt one, a pumpkin without deep segments is just an orange ball — and the fix is a length of thread.
4 min read Beginner
Needle Felting
Needle Felting Ideas for Beginners
Projects chosen by what they teach, not by how they look in a photograph — each one adds a skill you will use in everything you make afterwards.
3 min read Beginner
Tips & Troubleshooting
Felted Soap Benefits
A bar of soap wrapped in felt is a flannel and a soap dish in one. What it actually does for the bar, for your skin, and the hygiene question people always ask.
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
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
Projects
Felted Christmas Balls
A tree full of wool baubles that survive being dropped by children and cats. Three methods, what each one actually weighs, and how to hang them so the loop holds.
4 min read Beginner