Felting Books

Animal Felt - $89.00
Birgitte Krag Hansen. Felted animals are the subject of this new book from the author, who shows a large number of models all made using the felting needle. The first animals are so simple that they can be made by beginners. Throughout the book the various techniques are extended presenting challenges and ideas for even experienced felters. The step-by-step photographs show how the wool is made into the most charming animals. 117pp. Hb.

The Art of Feltmaking: Basic Techniques for Making Jewelry, Minatures, Dolls, Buttons, Wearables, Puppets, Masks and Fine Art Pieces - $52.00
Anne Elnset Vickrey. This book has an abundance of useful felting lore from around the world. After some simple children's work come the Swedish and Nomadic coats, boots, etc. All this information with nice color illustrations of articles and techniques will make teachers happy and wool artists inspired by this ancient craft. 144pp. Pb.

The Ashford Book of Needle Felting - $33.00
Barbara Allen. Explore the potential of needle felting. Create your own adorable figures, beautiful flowers and scenes, striking jewellery and embellishments all in flat or sculpted felt. With just a little wool, a felting needle and this book you can create unique, beautiful felted works of art. If you haven’t tried needle felting, here is a book to inspire you. Barbara, a popular teacher and author, explains and illustrates all the techniques, materials and equipment needed. For each project there are step-by-step instructions and full colour photographs of each process. There are projects for beginners and skilled felters and each project builds on the knowledge gained. By the book’s end you will be experienced and confident to create your own masterpiece or try one of Barbara’s beautiful gallery pieces. The book provides all the pattern templates for the projects. 112pp. Pb.

Beginners Guide to Feltmaking - $26.00
Shirley Ascher & Jane Bateman. Handmade felt is a wonderfully versatile material - you can create anything from sumptuous wallhangings and cushions to shaped and sculpted items, all from a kitchen sink! Using step-by-step photographs which show how to magically transform wool fibers into fabric, the author presents a series of easy-to-follow projects which range from simple panels to more adventurous shaped pieces. This book is brimming with ideas and packed with inspiration. Pb.

Crafting On The Go: Felt - $19.00
Using commercially available felt to craft household items and personal decorations is not new, but this collection of projects is new. Easy enough to make with children, but also designed with attention to stitchery detail and are fun to make for gifts. Compact, well illustrated patterns and photos for each project. 96pp. Hb.

Fabulous Felt Hats - $16.00
Chad Alice Hagen. Handmade felt is a wonderful material for creating jaunty, fun hats that are infinitely varied in form, color, and pattern. The author explains the simple process for making felt from wool and presents 15 spectacular, handsculpted hat projects. Transform classic shapes using distinctive finishing touches. 112pp. Pb.

Fabulous Felted Scarves - $35.00
Chad Alice Hagen and Jorie Johnson. Felting is hotter than ever, and scarves are fabulous first projects for crafters to try. The simple process yields infinitely varied results, with rich colors, forms, and visual appeal. Created by two internationally-known designers, these 20 spectacular boas, wraps, shawls, and stoles are beautiful, wearable art. Ranging from understated elegance to simply outrageous, they come with easy-to-follow instructions, helpful how-to photos, and templates, when needed. An introduction covers all the basics, and the projects build a repertoire of skills as readers progress through the book. The standouts include a scarf with lacy designs snipped onto the felt surface; a wrap inspired by the delicate hues in Monet’s water lily paintings; and a pretty dip-dye novelty yarn party scarf. 143pp. Hb.

Felt: Handmade Style - $19.00
An ancient, versatile textile with a contemporary edge, felt can be made in gossamer-fine, cobweb-like forms, or thick, sturdy fabrics suited to heavy-duty uses. Even if you’ve never worked with felt before, Felt: Handmade Style will provide all you need to get started and to make beautiful felted items. All 23 projects are clearly explained and accompanied by step-by-step photographs and comprehensive diagrams. From scarves, shawls, hats and slippers to bags, rugs, and even a Champagne cooler and a pet bed, Felt: Handmade Style offers inspirational ideas for clothes, accessories and home decoration. 112pp. Pb.

Felt To Stitch: Creative Felting for Textile Artists - $46.00
Sheila Smith. This work offers basic and advanced techniques for those who want to take feltmaking to another level and explores the surface embellishment of felt. This book shows you how to make your own felt, select and dye your own colours, build unusual textures with felt fibres and further embellishment, and manipulate the felt to produce three-dimensional pieces. With sample projects that illustrate the main techniques, Felt to Stitch will address the main elements of design in felt: color - blending commercially dyed fibers; dyeing processes for wool fibers; applying color as surface design; line and shape - methods for creating clear outlines in felt; pre-felts for use on inlay, applique and mosaic; texture - combining felt and fabric - Nuno felt, embellishing with other fibres; Form/three-dimensional felt: seamless hollow forms; and, other techniques - multi-layered felts, low relief, and webs/grids. 128pp. Hb.

Felted Knits - $37.00
Beverley Galeskas. The first unintended felting work of mine was undisciplined and unusable: wool yarn and the dryer equal felt. But now, study this book and learn how to plan, sample, and knit some really nice, traditional felt, that comes out as desired. There is much information, very nicely presented, in this full color textbook. Start with some bags and pillow, and advance to warm, wooly hats, slippers, gloves, and even some nice garter stitch rugs. Go on! use your handspun or scraps of wool or wool blends. 128pp, Pb.

Felting Fashion - $45.00
Lizzie Houghton. Crafters and fashionistas alike will go wild about this inspiration-packed book, which offers several ways to make felt and a wide range of patterns for stylish felt garments and accessories. The fashions include everything from hats to lavish full-length coats, and the instructions cover techniques for creating Nuno felt (a lightweight modern type that drapes) as well as traditional felts — plus methods for dyeing wool, ruching, and making cords, spikes, balls, and other embellishments. 128pp. Hb.

Feltmaking: Fabulous Wearables, Jewelry & Home Accents - $28.00
Chad Alice Hagen. Handfelted wool is making a big comeback. In this offering by The Weekend Crafter, you learn that with a few tools, some ordinary household equipment, plus wool, soap and water, you can create felt items. Admittedly, some of the items are a stretch --- i.e., the wool dreadlock (!!), striped snakes and strange rooster coffee cozy, but others are attractive and useful such as the marvelous mittens, warm fringed throw, journal cover and snuggly slippers. 80pp. Pb.

Heartfelt - $29.00
Teresa Searle. 25 Projects for stitched and felted accessories. Make a wide range of accessories for children and adults using felted knitting embellished with appliqué and embroidery techniques. A range of processes is included to suit all abilities and varied resources. Teresa Searle demonstrates her unique method of combining felted knitting with appliqué and embroidery to produce a wide range of richly coloured accessories. Projects include hats, mittens, slippers and scarves, as well as jewellery such as brooches, hair clips and corsages. Felted knitting also presents opportunities for recycling that favourite sweater that has shrunk in the wash. 128pp. Pb.

How To Make Felt - $28.00
Anne Belgrave. In this book you will discover how to use the felt-making process to create hats, bags, rugs and wallhangings. You can make dyed or undyed felt, plain or patterned, and you can embroider it. 80pp. Pb.

How We Felt: Designs and Techniques From Contemporary Felt Artists - $41.00
Carol Huber Cypher. In this beautifully photographed collection, images of signature works by admired fiber artists complement in-depth information on creating their unique felting effects. Highlighting more than 20 artists and numerous projects, including hats, capes, bags, slippers, jewelry, rugs, pillows, curtains, an ottoman, and a felted chess set, the book excites the advanced, beginner, and intermediate felter alike. A gallery section showcases other artists’ work and further sparks the imagination. The combination of images, ideas, and information make this book a must-have for feltmakers who want to deepen their repertoire of techniques, aspiring fiber artists seeking new directions for their work, and any reader wanting to be dazzled with breathtaking images of inventive artwork. 144pp. Pb.

Knit One, Felt Too - $32.00
Kathleen Taylor. It's easy enough to accidentally wash and dry a wool sweater and turn it into a doll sweater. This project book walks you through the process of making a hat or pair of slippers that fit, look good, and have all the durability that our ancestors have employed over the long history of felted knits. Good step-by-step instructions, graphic layout, and a variety of projects are a great introduction to felted knitting. So go ahead, plan, knit, and throw your work in the washer/dryer, several times. 176pp. Pb.

Knitting Never Felt Better - $38.00
Nicky Epstein. With her signature style, the bestselling and beloved needlework author Nicky Epstein offers the best guide to felting. Using ten chic garments and more than 150 stunning sample swatches as examples, she covers the top techniques for turning wool yarn into vibrant and dense textures. Before and after shots show how different fabrics react to the process, and there are patterns, stitches, and techniques for lace, mosaics, cables, plaids, checks, and quilting. Create bobbles, appliqués, and ruffles; combine yarns; and use clamps, marbles, cords, braids, and more to form three-dimensional shapes in the felt. Epstein also presents her unique ideas for transforming old clothes and accessories, using one sweater to demonstrate many design possibilities. An array of attractive home décor projects completes the collection beautifully. Hb.

Needle Felted Accessories - $24.00
Amy Barickman. 18 projects for needle felted jewelry and purses. Pb.

New Felt - $87.00
Birgitte Krag Hansen. This book presents new ways of felting both humans and animal figures, and describes how to build up a face. There are also a number of variations of relief pictures and theatre puppets. This book is well illustrated with instructive work procedures and pictures of finished work. It is written both for beginners and those wishing to develop work further. All the sections also include simple examples that can be made by children about 10 years and older. 107pp. Hb.

Nicky Epstein's Beginner's Guide to Felting - $14.00
Nicky Epstein. 8 Knit Projects For the First Time Felter. The time has come to conquer your felting fears. If you follow these basic steps and helpful hints, the transformations of size, texture, and density will take you to a new knitting dimension. Nicky also includes a variety of finishing techniques for felting, including 3-dimensional shapes, floral knit appliqués, cut felted appliqués, cutting fringe, and much more. You're sure to become a felting fan forever. 36pp. Pb.

Nuno Nouveau - $32.00
Liz Clay. In this unique collection of nuno felt projects, the author inspires the reader with innovative ideas for combining beautiful woven fabrics with handmade felt. The author gives clear instructions about how the nuno process works and demonstrates how it can be used on various fabrics and fibers to create very different results. Each of these techniques is fully illustrated with detailed photographs and clear step-by-step instructions. Great mix of projects. From scarves to home décor, from surface embellishments, color mixing, fiber blending -- this books develops a rich vocabulary of design ideas and methods. Pb.

Pixie Felt - $67.00
Birgitte Krag Hansen. This book is about pixie needle felting and a follow up to the previous book by Brigitte Krag Hansen - New Felt using the felting needle. To felt pixies is one of many subjects where the felting needle is most suitable. The barbs of the needle make it easy to create simple and more detailed faces and bodies of the wool, and you only need very few materials to get started. With the felting needle you don't have to use water and soap at all. This book is well illustrated with step by step pictures of the process as well as finished pixies. It is written both for beginners and for more experienced felters. Children from about nine or ten will be able to use the book on their own or with some adult help. 72pp. Hb.

Simply Felt: 20 Easy and Elegant Designs in Wool - $41.00
Margaret Docherty & Jayne Emerson. Quality felt projects have a feel to them that is more than just the item and its design. It's the whole idea that unlike the other wool arts, with spinning and technical manipulation, the educated abuse of the wool fibers will result in soft, flexible, sturdy structures of ancient lineage and contemporary beauty. So "simply" felt as a title implies all this notion of abuse of the fibers, and also a kind of elegance of form. These 20 projects will illustrate this as new skills and felting ideas are presented in a project format. 128pp. Pb.

Felting Needle Punch x 5 - $29.00
Here is a well-designed wooden needle punch from Ashford. It comes with five medium needles, which are stored in the handle. Safe for travel and comfortable to use.

Student Felting Needle Punch x 3 - $14.00
Here is a nifty student or beginners needle punch from Ashford. Designed in a see through bottle, it comes with three medium needles, which are stored in the bottle. Safe for travel and comfortable to use.

Felting Needles Set Medium/36 Gauge (10) - $15.00
Packs of felting needles. 10 per pack.