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Felting Projects to Make

Complete makes with photos at every stage — animals, flowers, ornaments and home decorations, sorted by how much experience they need.

Projects

Needle Felted Animals for Beginners

Every felted animal is a few balls and sausages joined together. Learn the construction method that works for any creature, and which animals forgive beginners.

4 min read Beginner

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

Projects

How to Needle Felt Flowers

Petals, centres, leaves and stems. The flat-shape technique that makes botanical work fast, and why irregularity is an advantage here.

4 min read Beginner

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

Projects

Felted Christmas Ornaments

Baubles, puddings, robins, stars and garlands — ornaments built from the two or three shapes you already know, sized so a set gets done before December.

4 min read Beginner

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