Needles are one route to felt, and the newer one. Water, soap and friction do the whole job with nothing sharp involved: five methods with quantities, water temperatures and timings, and what to use if you only need a needle substitute.
5 min read Beginner
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.
5 min read Beginner
Felted slippers are made four different ways — knitted, crocheted, wet felted over a resist, or cut from an old jumper. Which one you should use depends on which craft you already have in your hands.
10 min read Intermediate
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
A tree full of wool baubles that survive being dropped by children and cats. Three methods, what each one actually weighs, and how to hang them so the loop holds.
4 min read Beginner
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
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
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
Felt shrinks by a third or more, and not evenly in both directions. Rates by fibre, how to size a felting project so it fits, why a sweater shrinks in the dryer, and how far a shrunk one can be stretched back.
11 min read Intermediate
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
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.
5 min read Beginner
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.
6 min read Beginner
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.
