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
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
Needle Felting for Beginners
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
Felt Bag Charms
A bag charm gets knocked against doorframes every day, so it has to be felted harder than it looks. Twenty minutes each, and a hardware fitting that will not shed it.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Felt Bottle Bag
A wine bottle is its own resist. Wrap it in wool, felt it in place, and you get a sleeve that fits exactly — one evening, no pattern, no sewing.
4 min read Beginner
Projects
Needle Felted Angel
An angel is three shapes you already know how to make. Get the cone standing straight and the rest is decoration.
4 min read Beginner
Recipes
Pumpkin Guts Recipe
The stringy handful you scoop out and bin is sweet, gelatinous and full of flavour. It makes a better stock than the flesh does — and the seeds in it only crisp properly if you boil them first.
4 min read
Recipes
Pumpkin Loaf Recipe
Fresh pumpkin puree holds far more water than tinned. Drain it, cut the liquid elsewhere in the recipe, and you get a loaf that is moist rather than wet in the middle.
3 min read