What's the best glue for felt? Discover the perfect glue for your felt projects! Explore the pros and cons of different adhesives and find your favorite glue for felt.

A collection of 32 felt projects for kids of all ages and abilities, including no sew ideas for toddlers, simple sewing projects for beginners, and more!

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Preview: Find out the best way to cut felt - easily and precisely. This will be a game-changer for you and your felt craft project will finally look stunning. How many times did you try to cut out felt and it didn’t turn out the way you wanted to? Have you ever wonder what would

Looking for felt crafts? We have over 40 of the best quick, inexpensive & fun ideas that can all be made in just 15 minutes or less!

A collection of 32 felt projects for kids of all ages and abilities, including no sew ideas for toddlers, simple sewing projects for beginners, and more!

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INSIDE: The best tips for sewing felt for beginners, from what needle for sewing felt, what thread, to how to cut felt and how to wash felt. For a while, you've been planning to start a new sewing project using felt. You've been gathering materials, colorful felt sheets and matching thread. You've gathered enough inspiration,

These felt letters are soft, colourful and so easy to make. Grab the free template and set aside a few hours for this fun craft.

I LOVE working with felt! The edges don't fray, it's delightfully warm, it takes embroidery beautifully, and it comes in the most luscious colors. But it's different than regular fabric. These tips will make it super easy to work with. Why wool felt? It's way more durable that the cheap acrylic stuff you can buy

If you have ever wondered what cutting machine you should use to cut felt, here is the answer, the Cricut Maker.

In this post I've collected the best felt craft ideas. Felt is aversatile material. These crafts will inspire you to usefelt for your projects.

Not sure what to do with felt scraps? Here is a round-up of 24+ super cute craft ideas to make with all those felt scraps!

Inside: Find out 3 easy ways how to trace pattern on felt or fabric that will make your life and craft projects easier. These pattern transfer techniques will work great for quiet book patterns, DIY and craft, sewing or quilting projects. Have you ever thought that there must be an easier way to trace pattern

How to Make a Magic Wool Autumn Fairy: This gorgeous autumn fairy would make a perfect addition to any autumnal celebration - why not add to your Thanksgiving centrepiece? If you've never tried felting or working with magic wool before, this tutorial might be a little advanced. Now we'r…

Mark your page with these adorable DIY felt bird bookmarks. They're a great way to use up leftover felt from other felt crafts!

Patty and Dannielle are the co-hosts of “Make it Cozee” and have many very fun and interesting tutorials. The one I am sharing with you today is the “Tutorial: Secret to Cutting …

Needle Felt A Basic Body Shape #VIDEO TUTORIAL WRITTEN TUTORIAL See photographs below: 1 & 2: Start with a long length of wool and roll into a TIGHT rough oval/cylinder shape, stopping and tucking in the ends as you go; to get it really tight, push down into the foam pad or whatever surface you are using. Do not start to

I remember going to Sunday School as a young child. One of my favorite parts was the felt board. When I was really little, I remember wondering how in the world did they ‘stick’? I was completely fascinated with the board and putting the characters and pieces on the board. It was always a great Sunday...

In this post I've collected the best felt craft ideas. Felt is aversatile material. These crafts will inspire you to usefelt for your projects.

When I tell people that I needle felt, more often than not I have to explain what that is. At shows, a lot of folks walk into my booth and assume that I'm using boiled wool or I have knitted then felted (by way of washing and drying) my products. I always keep some unfinished products and supplies on hand so that I can demonstrate the process: "See, I gather the wool into the general shape, then I poke it with these special, barbed needles, and the fibers tangle together. The more I poke, the more I can shape and sculpt the wool..." Once they see how things are made, then it seems as though they have a better appreciation of the total work and time that goes into each piece. Needle felted pieces are not something that can be mass produced--at least very well. I'm just a one gal show over here (plus the work my husband puts in). As much as I wish I could make more things, my time is finite, which means my productivity is finite too. Sometimes I'm envious of graphic designers and artists who can make prints--they can produce so much product. They can send their work to shops across the states--out of the states even. I struggle to renew local consignment orders. Thank goodness the shop owners are patient. But I digress. Below is the step-by-step process with short descriptions of how I made the wool painting from week 3 of 52 Weeks of Felt Paintings. Enjoy! 1. Blank needle felted canvas on my felting foam with my 6-needle tool. 2. The four shades of blue I used for the sky. 3. The entire background was covered in one blue. 4. Other blues laid out on the canvas to determine how I wanted the gradient. 5. All the blues are felted down. 6. Playing with composition with shades of pink and purple for the balloons. 7. Started with the the balloons in the back.... 8. And worked my way toward the front of the bunch. 9. All balloons are felted in place. 10. Placing lighter colored felt for balloon highlights. 11. Balloon highlights are felted in. 12. I also added some white into the highlights. Determining string placement. 13. "Stretching" the wool into long pieces for the strings. 14. All the strings are in place. 15. Adding flesh colored wool for the hand and arm holding the balloons. 16. Adding small balloon details. 17. Small detail work on the hand. 18. The edges of the painting are still pretty messy... 19. ...so I cleaned them up with my felting needles. 20. Edges smoothed. (Side shot to show dimension.) 21. Finished! I didn't time myself while making this. It's not terribly detailed, so I guess it took a total of 1.5 hours (give or take a bit) not including all the picture taking. More detailed pieces take up to 3 or 4 hours. It truly is a lot of layering, and it's easier to build up the felt rather than take it away. Does anything about this process surprise you?

Discover the versatility of felt fabric! Learn about different types of felt, from classic wool felt to craft felt made with synthetic fibers.

A collection of 32 felt projects for kids of all ages and abilities, including no sew ideas for toddlers, simple sewing projects for beginners, and more!

In this post I've collected the best felt craft ideas. Felt is aversatile material. These crafts will inspire you to usefelt for your projects.

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This is absolute fact! Yes you can iron felt! I've heard over the years that felt that isn't 100% wool can't be ironed. Well let me smash that myth right now, ALL felt products can be ironed you just have to know which techniques to use for each type of felt. I'm going to give you my 4 easy tips for ironing felt and how to iron the 3 most popular types of felt. Here's a little secret: Ironing felt is easier and faster than ironing fabric! Some people find ironing fabric to be soothing and calming, I do not. It's takes so long and I find it annoying, but felt is a dream to iron! Tips For Ironing All Kinds Of Felt Step One: Use the right iron temperature for the right type of felt. Step Two: Keep a dry dishtowel on hand. Step Three: Always iron on an ironing board and not straight on a table, ( all I'll say is that there was scraping and scrubbing involved ) although a folded bath towel on a table works in a pinch. Step Four: Don't get crazy if you still see a very light crease after all that ironing, because if you are stuffing that piece for a doll or an plush or an ornament the stretch of the stuffing will completely eliminate that little crease, cause that's how awesome felt is. How to Iron Craft Store/Eco Felt Sheets I started out as most beginning crafters do buying the 9" x 12" sheets of low grade craft felt from the craft store. It's cheap, comes in lots of bright colors and is easy to learn to work with. It's also 100% polyester and made from recycled water bottles, which means it's plastic and you can melt it with an iron, if you don't know what you are doing. Most of the time you buy this felt flat and then store it flat so no ironing is necessary but sometime pieces get rolled under and creased when you are shoving too much felt into a drawer...trust me I know of what I speak on the stuffing and shoving of supplies. See wrinkled felt and that's no fun! Then you'll need to break out the iron. While eco felt is the trickiest to iron because of the plastic nature of the product, a little care and the right iron temperature is all you need. Turn your iron to the Poly setting with steam and move quickly across the felt ironing on both sides of the crease or wrinkle. For wrinkles in craft felt. My iron doesn't show that you can use steam on this Poly setting but you can and I do it all the time. If the crease is very deep you'll have to get that dishtowel I told you about, place it over the felt and re-iron holding the iron in place longer. That dish towel will keep bad things from happening to the felt. Just don't leave it there for long periods of time or walk away or that felt and dish towel are goners. Unless an elephant has been sitting on this felt, the crease or wrinkle will come out super easy and fast. I only ironed the worst side of this piece since it's just going back into an over stuffed drawer. Look at that nice flat side. Ironed and ready to craft with! A warning: the plastic fibers in this type of felt will melt a tiny bit when you iron it, which is perfectly fine and nothing to worry about. I actually prefer that little bit of melt because it makes cutting that type of felt less messy and makes the piece a tiny bit more durable. How To Iron Premium Poly/Eco Felt Premium poly felt is slightly thicker than craft felt, is available in more colors, is stronger and more durable, is softer and you can buy it by the yard or sheets. It's also made out of recycled water bottles but is a higher quality product than craft felt. It's a personal favorite of mine because of the softness. Because you can buy this felt by the yard and storing it flat is next to impossible, at least in my studio, you will have deep creases and wrinkles no matter what. They are still softer creases than you get with wool blend felt though. I once heard a crafter say to arrange your patterns around the creases and then throw that creased part away?! Girl Scout swear I read this on someone's blog once! Apparently an iron was an unknown appliance to them. I'm a penny pincher, frugal or just plain cheap but I will use every speck of felt I possibly can so I iron my felt. For wrinkles and lighter creases on Poly felt. Use steam, it really helps and I use it on Poly setting all the time. Again turn your iron to the Poly setting with steam and iron both sides with some pressure as if you were ironing cotton fabric, but keep that iron moving. If the crease is deep and still visible and drives you nuts like it does me, you can bump up your iron to Blend setting still with steam and iron the crease again on both side with pressure being careful not to hold the iron on too long. A couple of passes with the iron on the felt should get rid of the crease. After ironing the Poly felt. So smooth and ready to go! How To Iron Wool Blend Felt Wool blend felt is pretty awesome and is so durable but not nearly as soft as the premium eco felt. It usually has a blend of rayon in it and is thicker than the premium felt, which means it cuts beautifully with nice sharp edges. It also comes in sheets and yards and at some point you will need to iron it. I'm not sure if wool blend felt doesn't wrinkle as easy as other felt or if I just store it flatter and with more care since it's so much more expensive than the other felt, but the creases are usually deeper than Craft and Poly felt and I don't see any wrinkles. I find it the easiest of all the felt to iron and the results are amazing! Turn that iron on to Blend setting with steam if the crease is really light or Wool setting with steam for a deeper crease and give those creases a good couple of passes on both sides with a little pressure. I personally always use the Wool setting for my Wool Blend felt. It only takes a couple of seconds ( like 3 seconds ) and then you're done. I have an off brand digital iron I got at Aldi's in a pinch. If you have a super fancy ultra hot quilting iron then using that dishtowel on each type of felt might be a wise idea. In case you were wonder what that blue thing I'm ironing on is, it's a small table top ironing board. It's for dorm rooms and I got it 50% off at Joann's last year. Love this thing! Disclaimer: My tips are to be used as a general guide for ironing felt. I don't know your iron like you do, so practice on a scrap piece of felt if you don't feel confident at first and you'll soon be ironing felt like a pro! So now that you know the 4 easy tips about ironing felt, get out there and iron and create something awesome! Want to join other felt minded folks? Click her to sign up to my awesome Felt Facebook Group

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Did you know you could cut felt with your Cricut?! Today I am going to show you how to cut felt with your Cricut and make felt flowers. Now that it is officially Spring, even though it may not feel like it, I thought why not do a craft that makes it feel like Spring. Cricut sent me some fely to try out and I knew flowers were the way to go.

In this post I’ll show you what to sew with felt to impress your loved ones the next time you want to give a gift that comes from the heart.

Love making cute woodland creatures? We've got a new one for you! Follow our simple tutorial to make your own needle felted fox.

I've already got a video showing the basics of how to whipstitch. It's a great way to sew up a stuffing opening in a softie, and that's what I demonstrate in the original. When you're working with felt, the basic mechanics of how to whipstitch are the same. But felt is a little different than

Do you ever wonder how professional textile artists achieve a smooth, even finish to their needle felted artwork? Does your work look a little fuzzy, blobby or matted in comparison? Read on for three effective tips to get you felting like a pro.1. Stab Sensitively!Have you ever looked at your work and though "that looks a bit...stabby"? Have the holes made by your felting needle really left their impression on your work? The chances are that this is because when you stab down with your needle, y

A collection of 32 felt projects for kids of all ages and abilities, including no sew ideas for toddlers, simple sewing projects for beginners, and more!

Hello fellow felt crafters, This is Lorrie Everitt from Make and Merry Co and I am super excited to share with you the first of five beginner felt flower blog tutorials. If you have never made felt flowers before I hope that this series inspires you to try. I created all of the felt flowers and stems for this series using one of the new Cactus Bloom Premium Wool Blend Craft Felt Sheet Value Packs and two sizes of Wool Felt Balls. The Mini Wool Felt Balls are new and they are the perfect size for floral centres. At the end of this series, you will have created a variety of florals that can be combined to create a beautiful felt flower bouquet. Today we’re going to create one of the larger feature flowers for the bouquet which I call Wildflower One. Gather your supplies Wildflower One template Premium Wool Blend Craft Felt Light pink (x1) Vanilla (x1) Hunter green (x1) Pan pastels or eye shadow Dark pink White Bright green Floral wire 16-gauge 22-gauge Dark green floral tape Basic flower making tools This basic flower making tools list is the same for all of the posts in this series. Cutting: Assorted fabric scissors - sharp 5” fabric scissors, 5” shears, 7mm scalloped edge scissors, rotary cutter, clear ruler and self healing cutting mat. Note: the scalloped edge scissors are nice to have but not necessary. My pattern templates include the scalloped edge so you can cut them by hand. Pattern Making: Pellon 830 easy pattern tracing fabric, mini sewing clips, pencil or fine tip marker. Note: I trace my pattern pieces onto the tracing fabric to create my cutting templates. Using wax paper is another option. Gluing: Fine tip hot glue gun, hot glue sticks and a silicone glue pad. Coloring: Sponge brush applicators and assorted paint brushes to use with pan pastels and eye shadow. Note: adding color to the flowers makes them a little more detailed and it’s a style choice. If you are just starting out you can omit the felt coloring steps. Floral Wire Stems: Mini wire cutters and pliers. Let’s make the Wildflower One Step 1. Cut all felt pieces as per the template. Optional: Cut the centre petal piece as a rectangle and cut the scalloped edge using 7mm scalloped scissors. Step 2. Fold the centre length-wise and glue the edges together as shown. Step 3. Snip along the folded edge to create the fringe. Tip: Thinner snips will create a fuller floral centre. Step 4. Add hot glue to the uncut edge and roll to create the floral centre. Step 5. Use 7mm scallop scissors to cut a scalloped edge on the centre petal. Snip between the scallop valleys to create the petals. Step 6. Color the tips of the petals, on both sides, with dark pink pan pastel or eye shadow and a sponge brush applicator. Step 7. Wrap the entire length of the centre petals around the floral centre and glue into place as you go. Step 8. Gently separate and fluff the centre petals. Step 9. Add some shape to the large petals by stretching and twisting the felt. Repeat this on all of the petals before going onto the next step. Step 10. Color the petals, on both sides, with dark pink and white pan pastels or eye shadow.Tip: Blend the dark pink and white for a softer and more realistic effect. Step 11. Glue the bottom of the first petal to the base of the floral centre. Continue adding petals so they are evenly space out and slightly overlap each other. Step 12. Gently fluff each petal into place and add a small amount of glue to the petals, where necessary, to shape and hold them in place. Step 13. Your petals should look like this. Step 14. And the back of your flower will look like this. Step 15. Add shape to the calyx and leaf by stretching and twisting the felt. Step 16. Prepare to add a stem. Coil the end of 16-gauge wire stem and bend using pliers. Step 17. Create a hole in the centre of the calyx using an awl, then insert the wire stem as shown. Step 18. Add a generous amount of glue to the centre of the calyx and wire coils then attach to the back of the flower. Step 19. Add a line of glue to the middle of each of the leafy sections of the calyx and glue in place to the floral petals. Step 20. Attach a 7” piece of 22-gauge wire to the middle of the leaf using glue. Step 21. To hide the wire, fold the leaf in half while the glue is hot and allow to dry. Step 22. Open the leaf and press to flatten the centre seam. Step 23. Color the felt leaf with light green pan pastels or eye shadow on both sides. Wrap the wire stem with floral tape. Step 24. Wrap the wire stem on the flower. Attach the leaf stem about 2” below the calyx and continue wrapping. And our Wildflower One is now complete. Download the Wildflower One hand cutting template here. Stay tuned for the second post in this series. We are going to make the Wildflower Two next.

A collection of 32 felt projects for kids of all ages and abilities, including no sew ideas for toddlers, simple sewing projects for beginners, and more!

INSIDE: The best tips for sewing felt for beginners, from what needle for sewing felt, what thread, to how to cut felt and how to wash felt. For a while, you've been planning to start a new sewing project using felt. You've been gathering materials, colorful felt sheets and matching thread. You've gathered enough inspiration,

Stiffening felt is a simple and satisfying DIY project with dramatic results! In this article, I demonstrate how to stiffen felt using supplies you probably already have in your kitchen! You can stiffen felt just a little (to add just a little more body) or a lot (to make it stiff enough to take on