Projects
Felt Bottle Bag
A wine bottle is its own resist. Wrap it in wool, felt it in place, and you get a sleeve that fits exactly — one evening, no pattern, no sewing.
4 min read Beginner
Wet Felting Tutorials & Techniques
Warm water, soap and friction turn loose fibre into solid fabric. Learn layouts, shrinkage and resists for scarves, soaps, vessels and flat felt.
Projects
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
Wet Felting
Wet Felting for Beginners
Warm water, soap and friction turn loose fibre into cloth. Learn the layout, the rubbing, the fulling and the point where most beginners stop too early.
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
Wet Felting
Best Soap for Felting
Soap does two jobs in wet felting — it lubricates and it raises the pH so the scales open. Which soaps do both, and why washing-up liquid is a compromise.
4 min read Beginner
Tutorials
Wet Felting Classes
Guilds, craft schools, fibre festivals and studio makers run most of the teaching, and almost none of it shows up in a search for "classes near me". Here is where to actually look.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Wool Roving Dreads
A wool dread is a length of roving rolled between wet, soapy palms until it locks. Twenty minutes of rolling per dread, and the difference between good and bad ones is entirely in the fulling.
4 min read Intermediate
Tips & Troubleshooting
Why Won't My Wool Felt?
Wool that stays fluffy after an hour of work is almost never a technique problem. Work through these seven causes in order and you will find it.
4 min read
Tutorials
Felting Crochet
Crochet felts more slowly than knitting and shrinks less predictably, because the stitches are thicker and lock the yarn tighter. Allow for both and it makes the sturdiest felted fabric there is.
4 min read Intermediate
Tutorials
How to Make Felt Balls
The wet felting method for wool balls: fast, repeatable and much better than needle felting when you need a garland's worth rather than one.
4 min read Beginner
Wet Felting
Wet Felting Books
Felting books split into three kinds — technique manuals, project collections and artist monographs. Most people buy the second kind first and wish they had bought the first.
3 min read
Tips & Troubleshooting
What Is Felting
Wool is the only common fibre that permanently tangles itself into cloth. What actually happens to the fibre, and the four different crafts that all get called felting.
4 min read Beginner
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Other sections
Needle Felting
Sculpt wool into animals, figures and decorations with barbed needles. Start with the basics, then work up to armatures, faces and fine detail.
Nuno Felting
Felt merino through open-weave fabric to create light, drapey textiles. Fabric choice, fibre weight and migration, explained clearly.
Projects
Complete makes with photos at every stage — animals, flowers, ornaments and home decorations, sorted by how much experience they need.
Patterns
Printable templates, measurements and shaping guides you can follow exactly, or adapt once you know what the shapes are doing.
Tutorials
The core techniques, one skill at a time — each written as a sequence you can follow at the table with wool in your hands.
Supplies & Tools
Which needles, wool and mats are actually worth buying — what the gauges mean, what to skip, and what a starter kit really needs.
Tips & Troubleshooting
Fixes for the things that go wrong: fuzzy surfaces, broken needles, wool that will not felt, and shapes that refuse to hold.
Knitting
The knitting side of working with wool — leaf patterns, casting on, needle sizes and knitting faster — including the pieces that go on to be felted.
Seasonal & Nature
Why leaves fall when they do, what a cobweb actually is, and the seasonal makes that follow from both.
Recipes
What to do with the pumpkin once it is carved — cooking from fresh, including the parts most people throw away.