Felting knitted projects

How to Felt a Knitted Piece: In this Instructable, I will show you how to take a knitted piece (with 100% wool yarn) and turn it into a funky felted bag. For any of you that love knitting, and have never felted before, you will see how easy this process it. It can add a whole…

Felted Slipper Free Knitting Pattern

As I have been writing pattern roundups recently, I feel like I am getting more felting patterns than I have seen recently. I don’t know if felting is coming back or if it’s just that I…

Store all your itty bitty essentials in this practical (and adorable) knit basket pattern. Make your own Every Knitter's Favorite Basket project using 100% wool, so it can easily be felted once it's complete. Felting this pattern will result in a sturdy bowl that can be used for a variety of purposes, including decorative. Just fill your bowl with sea shells or potpourri and place it on the coffee table for the perfect centerpiece. No matter how you use your bowl, you'll love the way it…

Stylist Rachel O'Brien heads to the Fluff-a-torium in Dorking and learns how to make felt slippers with felt guru Gillian Harris

Felted Bag: Here are instructions on how to make your very own felted/fulled bag. For those of you who aren't familiar with the term "fulled", it's basically shrinking wool. You know that sweater you accidently shrunk in the wash? You fulled it.

With some basic sewing skills and a few pieces of felt, you can easily make a pair of felt slippers to wear around the home. You can make them out of wet felt, an accidentally felted sweater, or commercial felt (I'd suggest wool felt) that you may choose to embellish with needle felting. I've also i

Since my daughter is expecting her first, I have been looking more at baby knitting and crochet patterns. I have totally fallen in love with these slip-ons for adults and babies. The free pattern…

For your lovely knitted and felted wool slippers you'll need:Felting wool , for UK shoe size 6 you'll need around 200g. I used Wash+Filz it! from Schachenmayr.double pointed needles (dpns), 8mm washing machine How to knit your wool slippers:1. Cast on 36 stitches and start by knitting stockinette stitch for 35 rows. This is the heel end of your slipper.You can use 2 of your dpns for this. If you find that there are too many stitches for the length of your needles you can use 8mm straight…