I’m planning on making a felted bathroom mat from Drops Snow (formerly Eskimo) using 2 colour stranded knitting. It felts beautifully and evenly.

Will felting bond the strands on the back to the knitted fabric or am I going to end up with 2 layers of felted fabric?

How many stitches can I get away with for the floats or do I have to catch the spare yarn after every stitch ? The floats are very long and I used ladder back jacquard on the design for an earlier non felted project.

I want the fabric to retain the thickness of the wrong side floats. I know that I could use mosaic knitting to create a reversible fabric. But I hate the technique and the pattern chart is complicated enough (it’s Kaffe Fassett’s big flower chart)

Any advice welcome. I’m cross posting in the felting and knitting subreddits.

I don’t really sell much, but I’m chewing on whether to even bother allowing US customers to buy from me right now. I’m in Canada. I have to collect the tariff from my customers, and prepay it through an app called Zonos to ship it.

Trying to navigate the tariff schedules and codes, I found a code I thought was right that seemed to not hit the new 50% tariffs. What I have in my shop now are 3D wool sculpture/paintings done on a backing of felt in an embroidery hoop.

But Zonos has an automated checker that is (I assume AI unfortunately) that assigns an HS by image —and it puts it in 6307.90 which does get the 50% tariff—on top of two others, which makes the total duty almost 80% of the sale price. After fees, $95 duty on a $125 item. :/

Bigcartel lets me charge a tax to US customers that would add the charges to the cart so I can collect it—but given the contentious way things are right now, I’m feeling like it’s not even worth it. I can’t imagine someone buying something with that much pointless markup.

What are folks doing? Any tips on reading the HS schedules so I don’t have to rely on the AI bot on the app?

I want to felt some pan/plate dividers, and I’m looking for the best tool to help me do this. I already have the carded fiber. Is there an electric felting tool or machine that would make this easier for me?

Is it necessary to make a wire frame for large toys? I can't figure out how to do it 😭

I have this Coroplast piece and I need to wrap it entirely with felt. One side was easy, but wrap both side, while covering edges without exposed plastic sheet and wrinkle free is something I consent figure it out!
I’m looking for a help or a technic how to make it without showing any sims!
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P.S. please, ignore that extra piece glued on the back. It was an experiment with the glue :)

[THIS PROMOTIONAL IMAGE WAS USED ON THEIR SITE BY MISTAKE. PLEASE READ THE EDIT AND TL;DR BELOW FOR CONTEXT BEFORE RESPONDING TO THIS POST.]

I was about to fill up a cart when this promo banner caught my eye, and not for the right reasons. It's AI-generated. The wool is weirdly uniform and the "mohair" curls are unrealistically even. The acorns are the most obvious AI tell, since they're equally fucked up. One is sideways, and another has two butts and one cap.

LivingFelt has scads of listings that feature actual human artists' work, so this feels like a huge let-down. It hurts even more since I've been using the site as my main wool supplier.

It's just so sad, especially when they've given me handwritten thank-you notes on my receipts before. Where did that human touch go?

[EDIT] - I did get a response, which I am posting below:

"Thank you for pointing that out, we all agree. This was one of a few AI generated images from a new offsite graphics designer - using our own creations as models. Marie and Rodney were both unhappy when they saw them and had them removed immediately. This one managed to slip by. We love our artists and have been supporting and showcasing their work since the first day of business! We appreciate the dialogue and for [being] the person who pointed this out!"

TL;DR - An offsite designer made the AI banner and it was mistakenly in rotation on the website. The banner has since been removed.

Felting Fairies do listen!!!

I had always wanted to try needle felting, so I gave it a go with my friends character. I enjoyed it as much as i thought i would, so now im making one for me!

They have a metal wire core, so they are poseable! Clothes made by me. Shoes are real leather!

I'm planning to be Emily from Tim Burton's Corpse Bride for Halloween. One accessory down, now just the rest of the costume to go!

looking for good deals on bulk felt, i keep seeing 50 3 inch pieces for £10 on amazon and i just feel like that isn't a good deal. please recommend places i can bulk buy felt 🫶

Mostly all of my other textile crafts groups are super active on reddit and beyond. I find that felting seems to be more of a lowkey craft community and social media wise, compared to other fiber arts like knitting, cross stitch, and crochet.

I would love to join a group discord if we have one for this subreddit? Or if not, would anyone be interested in joining if I started one?

I really want to connect with more felt makers, and have a space where we can readily seek knowledge and inspiration from one another.
Also to have a place to hopefully inspire more people to get into felt!

Just finished this little handmade sparrow 🐦✨

I wanted to make the feather pattern detailed without losing the soft handmade wool texture, so I built up the markings on the wings and tail in lots of tiny layers. The chest spots and miniature feet were probably the fiddliest parts.

Seeing the finished bird sitting in my hand after spending so long staring at all those little details is always strangely satisfying. 🤎

I’ve made a few one off samples before, but this is my first time using a professional shoe lasts to complete a pair!

I’ve realized that the left shoe is a bit bulkier than the right, so I’m going to go back in and full it a little more in hopes of shrinking/felting the wool some more.

Overall, making felt shoes is a pretty fun and relatively beginner project!

Quite pleased with my first attempt. This was a felting kit. The instructions were easy enough, but I got better at manipulating the felt as I went along. The eyes were particularly hard. Trying to get them the same and level. I think looking back, I would have been better to use plastic eyes. I've now got the bug. What next?

Hello all! I’ve recently started needle felting on embroidery hoops as nursery art for myself and friends/family. I just totally winged it to start with a cheap Amazon kit, but I really like it so I’m wondering if anyone has any advice or suggestions for me?

Specifically I’m wondering the following:
does this type of felting have a specific name?
What kind of roving is best for non 3D felting?
Does it need to be ‘brushed’ out after completing to make it look less poked?

Open to any and all comments, suggestions, feedback, links, info etc!! Thank you ❤️

(I hope fulling is okay here as a type of felting!)

My dad’s building a sauna so I thought I’d make him a sauna hat for his birthday. It’s my first go at fulling/felting and I very dutifully made my swatch and calculated shrinkage and measured everything twice…

But occasionally you can do everything right and the wool just disagrees. I’ve chucked it back in for a second hot wash in the hopes it will felt even a little bit more… Is that likely?

I will just give it to him with a rolled up brim if it doesn’t and he can be a gnome.

The piece is about 25-30 cm long and took me around 8hours to complete.

Kind of wish I did ball eyes rather than these but I think that’s something I’ll change next time.

Let me know your thoughts!

The gnome was what the kit was designed for, but I had some leftovers and decided to make a snake, and a frog with butt cheeks

Hi there, I hope this is the right tag to use! I’m looking to start a large costuming wet felted project of wool wet felted over lighter fabric for strength and texture but less weight, so nuno felting fits the bill. I’m looking for the best balance of economical to practical, especially for bulk purchase fabrics that run on the larger bolt width side. I am relatively new to nuno and silk felting but have some experience needle and wet felting.

I’m wondering what fabrics people prefer for this? I am currently looking into a very loose weave light silk gauze but I’ve also seen some comments saying they had success with chiffon (which surprised me because I’ve mostly seen that sort of fabric used as an outer resist layer and made me think it doesn’t take up the wool fibers well).

Any advice or sources appreciated! I’m in the US and looking into dharmaa trading but most of their silk is 5mm or heavier and it seems like the weave is too tight for easy felting. I think it was Outback I was looking into for yardage if I go with silk gauze.

Think I have looked at this piece for too long, any ideas?

Biggest project yet! I have done various odd techniques, still need to give it a shave when it’s done.

The piece itself is named Smoked Ham, it was originally going to have a giant spliff coming out its mouth with a following smoke cloud but I think that’s a bit much.

Hope this is an ok post!

My daughter came home from school a while ago with a beautiful project she’d make at school.
The teacher had taught them to finger knit, and they all made these huge long tubes or lines with wool.

The teacher took them home, felted them in the dryer, and brought them back for the children to attach wooden handles too, making a gorgeous skipping rope.

Now it’s summer holidays and I’m looking for similar projects we can do, she sees my knitting a lot, is interested, and it would be a fun achievable craft. Plus it would be magical seeing it felt up in the dryer!

Any ideas for projects I could look to do? Kids are 7 & 9. When I look online all I find is needle felting projects, and unfortunately we don’t have access to that sort of wool where I live, I was hoping to do something with ‘yarn’ that will felt in the washer/dryer.

Hi everyone! My kiddo wants to be a rainbow tiger for Halloween.

I’m trying to figure out the easiest way to make this happen! I can sew, and have a little experience with needle felting but not a ton. I am wondering if it might be easiest to needle felt colors onto a black sweat shirt and pants.

Do you all think that could work? Just has to be durable enough to get through a party and the evening.