Welcome fiber artists and aspiring fiber artists. If you are looking for easy to follow wet felting (aka wool felting) tutorials for beginners to intermediate, look no further. These step by step felting instructions will help you to discover your own style of felting and master this expressive craft.
While my focus in most of the tutorials is specific, you will be able to apply the felting skills and techniques you learn in each to create nearly anything you can imagine. Felting is the most versatile craft/art there is. You can make felted wall hangings, wearables, 3D sculptures, household items like cushions and coasters, toys, and much more with some handy sewing skills.
Each tutorial explains new felting techniques, equipment and materials needed, felting tips and tricks to create texture, interesting shapes, and patterns in your handmade felted fabric.
These felting tutorials are all free and hardest part is deciding which one to try first. If you haven’t tried wet felting before, I recommend starting with the ‘Wet felting for beginners’ tutorial to learn the basic technique of felting.
If you are interested in how to make a prefelt, follow these quick and easy 7 simple steps outlined in this free felting tutorial. Then use your prefelt in your next felting project to elevate your felting skills to the next level.
In this free felted soap tutorial, I provide clear step by step instructions on how to wet felt wool around a bar of soap and add a design to the top. This quick and easy crafting activity is perfect for beginners and kids.
In this free tutorial on how to make dryer balls, I provide easy, step by step instructions on how to make wool dryer balls from yarn or roving, and three different ways to felt and decorate them, by hand or using your washing machine.
In tutorial on how to use prefelt, I cover the importance of felting design, how to plan a complex felting project, and provide three examples of different project complexities to illustrate the level of planning needed for each.
If you are keen to learn how to make cobweb felt, look no further than this free cobweb felted scarf tutorial. The Cobweb felting technique, as you might expect from the name, produces a thin and lacy felted fabric, perfect for a felted scarf.
This free felting tutorial, on how to make a vessel, involves felting on an inflatable rubber ball to create a hollow felted sphere. These step by step instructions are beginner friendly easy to follow, and takes about 4 hours to complete.
In this free resist felting techniques tutorial, you will learn how to create and use a flat wet felting resist to make a felted vessel, how to lay and felt the wool roving, and finally how to shape the felted vessel.
This step by step wet felting guide will teach you the foundational skills and techniques needed for wet felting. You will learn what equipment and wool you need, where to get these supplies, and how to make a felted wall hanging of any size.