Projects
Felted Slippers
Two routes to felted slippers — knit them enormous and shrink them, or wet felt them over a resist. Plus the sole problem, which nobody warns you about.
4 min read Intermediate
Wet Felting Tutorials & Techniques — page 3
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
Felt Ball Rug
Several hundred felt balls, a strong thread and a long evening. How many balls a rug actually needs, how to string them, and how to stop it curling.
4 min read Intermediate
Projects
Felted Rug
A wet felted rug is one enormous flat piece of felt. The making is simple; the thickness, the fulling and the floor it goes on are what decide whether it lasts.
4 min read Advanced
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
Tips & Troubleshooting
Can You Wet Felt After Needle Felting
Combining the two methods is standard practice, not a compromise. What wet felting does to a needled piece, in which order to work, and when it ruins things.
3 min read Intermediate
Projects
Felted Christmas Balls
A tree full of wool baubles, made from about 4 g each, that survive being dropped by children and cats. Three methods, and how to hang them so the loop holds.
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.