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
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
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
Wet felting makes bodies, not faces. Build the animal as a hollow form over a resist, full it hard, then dry-felt the detail on top — that combination is how the best felted animals are made.
4 min read Intermediate
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
The mat is not padding. Its ridges grip the wool through the plastic and shear it slightly with every roll, and that shear is what turns a fragile web into fabric.
3 min read Beginner
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
Wool paintings are laid, not brushed, and they move when they get wet. How to compose a felted picture that still looks like your sketch afterwards.
4 min read Intermediate
A felted hat is a resist project with one unforgiving constraint — it has to fit a head. How to size the resist, and how to stop when it fits.
4 min read Advanced
A felted bowl is a closed pocket with a hole cut in the top. The making is easy; getting it to sit flat and hold its walls up is the part worth reading about.
4 min read Intermediate
A seamless felted bag, made from one resist, thick enough to carry a book. Includes the three ways of attaching handles that do not eventually rip out.
4 min read Intermediate
A sheet of plastic between two layers of wool is the entire technique behind felted bags, bowls, hats and slippers. How to cut one, wrap it and get it out.
5 min read Intermediate
Sculpt wool into animals, figures and decorations with barbed needles. Start with the basics, then work up to armatures, faces and fine detail.
Felt merino through open-weave fabric to create light, drapey textiles. Fabric choice, fibre weight and migration, explained clearly.
Complete makes with photos at every stage — animals, flowers, ornaments and home decorations, sorted by how much experience they need.
Printable templates, measurements and shaping guides you can follow exactly, or adapt once you know what the shapes are doing.
The core techniques, one skill at a time — each written as a sequence you can follow at the table with wool in your hands.
Which needles, wool and mats are actually worth buying — what the gauges mean, what to skip, and what a starter kit really needs.
Fixes for the things that go wrong: fuzzy surfaces, broken needles, wool that will not felt, and shapes that refuse to hold.
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.
Why leaves fall when they do, what a cobweb actually is, and the seasonal makes that follow from both.
What to do with the pumpkin once it is carved — cooking from fresh, including the parts most people throw away.
