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 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.
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
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
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
How to Wet Felt a Scarf
A first wearable piece. How thin to lay the wool, how much length to add for shrinkage, and why a scarf needs less felting than you would think.
4 min read Intermediate
Tips & Troubleshooting
How Much Does Wool Shrink When Felted?
Felt shrinks by a third or more, and not evenly in both directions. How to measure your own shrinkage rate and size a project so it fits when it is finished.
4 min read Intermediate
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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.