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 Tutorials & Techniques — page 2
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.
6 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
Wet Felting
Bamboo Mat for Felting
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
Wet Felting
Wet Felting Animals
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
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
Supplies & Tools
Prefelt Wool
Prefelt is wool stopped halfway — solid enough to cut into shapes, loose enough to still felt onto something else. It is the neatest way to get crisp detail into felt.
4 min read Intermediate
Wet Felting
Resist Felting
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.
4 min read Intermediate
Wet Felting
Cobweb Felting
Cobweb felt is wool laid so thinly it has holes in it on purpose — lace-light, full of gaps, and the most forgiving advanced technique in wet felting.
4 min read Intermediate
Wet Felting
Wet Felting Art
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
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
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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.