Wool craft, one step at a time
Needle felting, wet felting and nuno felting — explained step by step, with the tools that are worth buying and the mistakes worth avoiding.
How the barbs actually work, which of the four needle gauges to reach for, how to hold and angle the needle, how to join one piece to another, and a first project that teaches all of it.
Read the guideSculpt wool into animals, figures and decorations with barbed needles. Start with the basics, then work up to armatures, faces and fine detail.
Warm water, soap and friction turn loose fibre into solid fabric. Learn layouts, shrinkage and resists for scarves, soaps, vessels and flat felt.
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.
How to make a felted vest with no seams: nuno or all wool, measuring and sizing the resist so it shrinks to fit, how much wool to buy, cutting the neck and armholes, and fulling it to size on your own body.
8 min read Intermediate
Felt earrings that weigh almost nothing, brooches that sit upright, bead bracelets and necklaces: how dense to felt each one, how to fix the metal parts so they never pull out, and how to keep felt jewelry looking new.
8 min read Beginner
Which wool toys cats really play with, how hard to felt them so they survive claws and teeth, catnip versus silvervine, what to leave off, and a short note on dogs.
8 min read Beginner
How to make a felt mobile for a nursery or a window: choosing a hoop, branch or crossbar, what to hang and how heavy it is, drop lengths that look right from below, balancing it, and hanging it safely over a crib.
6 min read Beginner
Angelina is a fine, glittering polyester fibre, and the heat-bondable kind fuses into sheets under an iron. Which type to buy, how to fuse it, and how to keep it from shedding out of wet and needle felted work.
5 min read Intermediate
