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FeltingLessons

Wool craft, one step at a time

Felting tutorials you can actually follow

Needle felting, wet felting and nuno felting — explained step by step, with the tools that are worth buying and the mistakes worth avoiding.

Needle Felting · Beginner

What needle felting actually is, the four things you need to start, and how to turn a handful of loose wool into a firm shape you are pleased with.

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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.

Wet Felting

Warm water, soap and friction turn loose fibre into solid fabric. Learn layouts, shrinkage and resists for scarves, soaps, vessels and flat felt.

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.

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Projects

Sweater Mittens

One felted jumper makes two or three pairs. The template, where to place it to use the cuffs, and the fleece lining that turns them from craft into kit.

4 min read Beginner

Projects

Felted Sweater Projects

One felted jumper is about half a square metre of thick, cut-friendly wool. Fifteen things to make from it, ordered by how much fabric each one needs.

4 min read Beginner

Patterns

Felt Cat Patterns

Felt does not fray, so a cat pattern is four shapes and no hemming. How to draw your own template, and what changes when the cat is going to be chewed.

6 min read Beginner

Projects

Felt Animal Hair Clips

The animal is the easy part. The reason most felt hair clips end up in the bin is the join between the felt and the metal, and glue is never the answer.

4 min read Beginner

Tutorials

How to Felt a Wool Sweater

Deliberately shrinking a jumper turns a charity shop find into thick, cut-friendly fabric. The settings that work, and the ones that produce a stiff board.

4 min read Beginner

Patterns

Felted Cat Cave

Knit an absurdly large wool bowl, shrink it by a third in a hot wash, and dry it over a form. The pattern, the arithmetic, and why the entrance is easier cut than knitted.

7 min read Intermediate