Felting Books

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 - $15.00
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 Hand-Knits - $26.00
Jane Davis. Learn a versatile, creative technique for turning knitting into felted fabric. These 30 stylish projects to knit and felt - washing knitwear so that it shrinks and fuzzes - will expand you knitting skills. The book shows you examples of the different techniques: what happens when you use different needle sizes, differen stitches, different sides of the knitting, etc. 128pp. Pb.

Fabulous Felted Scarves - $32.00
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.

Fast Fun & Easy Needle Felting - $18.00
Lynne Farris. This volume includes complete illustrated instructions for eight distinct needle-felting techniques - from embellishments on woollen fabric, creating appliqué and stained-glass effects, to the use of buttons and beads in dimensional projects. 48pp. Pb.

Felt Frenzy - $33.00
Shannon Okey. 26 Projects for all Forms of Felting. Designed with the absolute beginner in mind, this project collection explores all the major felt making techniques, from knit-and-shrink to wet felting, needle felting, and "recycled felting," as well as ways to combine techniques for creative and unique results. With 26 projects and photographs of more than 50 before-and-after felted yarn combinations, crafters can easily customize patterns with substitutions of their choice. Instructions are given for felted bags, flowers, hats, jackets, scarves, wool sneakers, and even a nuno felted skirt; while fiber types, tools for getting started, and the four major techniques needed to create these projects are also all covered. Armed with plenty of information and the authors' can-do spirit, crafters will find it easy to add felting to their repertoires. 128pp. Pb.

Feltcraft - $20.00
Petra Berger. This book will entertain and instruct little ones for many rewarding hours. Using no-fray, easy to use felt in its wide array of colors, this treasure trove of patterns for children will help you find projects galore. Full patterns for a variety of dolls, puppets, and jewelry are shown in color photos. A great resource.

The Felting Needle: From Factory to Fantasy - $25.00
Ayala Talpai. This book offers a clear cut introduction to the art of needle felting, from which delightful dolls, needlebooks and decorated eggs and can be created. The book comes with several felting needles (safely ensconced in plastic scabbards in the back), instructions with line drawings for several projects and a couple of pages of resources for wool and other information to help foster the learning process. One whole page is taken up by cautioning the felter to be careful of the very sharp needles, even encouraging the reader to update her tetanus shot! This book, with drawings, notes and explanations, is like a letter to a sister rather than an academic craft book. 10 small photographs on end pages. Sb.

The Felting Needle: Further Fantasies - $27.00
Ayala Talpai. If you have a basic idea of how felt is made from wool (all the fussy wet stuff to do, and a dash of uncertainty), then these new projects from the major proponent of this newly adopted technique will inspire your first forays. A special industrial felting needle and some dyed wool is the start, some practice from the workbook, and then your own real felted soft sculptures for your own projects. 96pp. Sb.

Fleece Dog - $28.00
Nobuko Nagakubo. Fleece Dog shows how to make adorable toy dogs in twenty popular breeds, using easy-to-find wool roving and a felting needle. Learn to make these canine characters with illustrated step-by-step instructions, then customize them to resemble a favorite pooch. As gifts, as doggie toys, as keepsakes, these little fleece dogs are a crafter’s best friend.

Hand Felted Jewelry and Beads - $33.00
Carol Huber Cypher. This comprehensive book includes both needle-felting and wet-feltmaking techniques covering flat, flat with a resist, 3-dimensional, use of armatures and mediums, color, inclusions, shape, and texture. These techniques are taught step-by-step in a friendly and accessible manner through the creation of beautiful objects of personal adornment. You'll learn how to make the felted equivalent of lampworked beads, turquoise focal beads, mokume gane look-alikes, and so much more. The first-time felter will be guided into this creative and fulfilling fiber art while the seasoned feltmaker will find inspiration, new tips and tricks to add to their repertoire. 128pp. Pb.

Knit One, Felt Too - $27.00
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.

Knitted & Felted Toys - $28.00
Zoe Halstead (also known as Zoe Mellor). Her latest book. A beautiful collection of 26 delightful toys, from cute cuddly animals such as a penguin or a lion, to well loved characters such as a pirate, a mermaid, and a princess. Easy to follow patterns using both knitting and felted knitting. Includes information on yarns and equipment, as well as basic techniques. 128pp. 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.

Making Felted Friends - $25.00
Sue Pearl. Crafters everywhere are discovering the joys of feltmaking. Working with fleece roving — now readily available at yarn and craft stores — is fun, tactile, and easy for all ages and levels of crafters. The 25 irresistible projects in Making Felted Friends show how creative it can be to work with this colorful, malleable medium using wet and needle-felting techniques. From cats, dogs, and penguins to snakes, dinosaurs, and monkeys, all the favorite animal friends are covered. Many start with a simple armature, which is wrapped with fleece roving. Then, with the addition of a bit of soap, water, and elbow grease, most projects can be made in several hours. Felting invites embellishment, and these projects make the most of it with brightly colored spots, stripes, spikes, and beaks that offer the imaginative crafter opportunities for sculpting one-of-a-kind creatures. Playful and cuddly to hold, some of these fuzzy felted friends make perfect toys. Others are designed to add a decorative touch to a tabletop or mantel display. Whether given as gifts or kept for entertainment and inspiration, the comical critters in this original felted menagerie are sure to become friends for life. Pb.

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

Needlefelting Book 1 (With 2 Needles) - $14.00
From the Team at Ashford Handicrafts. After a 5 minute "How to" at a Victorian country craft fair, and much practise during a holiday, the results were brought back to the Ashford Office in NZ. The technique took off, and everyone got into the act. This booklet is a compilation of some of their favourite felted pieces. 12pp plus patterns and 2 needles. Pb.

Needlefelting Book 2 (With 2 Needles) - $15.00
From the Team at Ashford Handicrafts. This book has new techniques, step by step instructions, many great ideas and patterns you can follow to create your own beautiful projects. 20pp plus patterns and 2 needles. Pb.

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 - $27.00
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 - $58.00
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 - $37.00
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.

Uniquely Felt - $37.00
Christine White. The author, a professional teacher and feltmaker, gathers her considerable knowledge of the craft to write the comprehensive guide to all things felt. She describes the equipment, explores concepts and theories of felting, and thoroughly covers all felting techniques, including traditional, needle, three-dimensional seamless, nuno, cobweb, carved, and Beede ball.And then there are the projects — handsome, indestructible bags; nuno shawls that marry soft wool fibers and wispy silks; bright picnic blankets and plush bath mats; lacy curtains made with impossibly sheer cobweb felt. Every project is striking in its fabulous depth of color and purity of form. There are no stitches, no seams, and no signs of woven cloth — just a wonderful, flowing piece of textile art.The process always begins the same way, but the fibers make the felting journey unique every time. This book is the ultimate guide to that magical adventure.

Vogue Knitting: Felting - $20.00
Felting — or boiling a knit item so it shrinks and the fibers mesh together — yields amazingly durable, beautiful pieces with unusual textures. It's the perfect technique for beginners because many mistakes just disappear during the washing process. An introduction explains all the knitting basics and felting fundamentals, from yarn selection to blocking and finishing the final product, and there's a wide variety of great things to create. With more than 20 stylish projects, you can knit a flower clutch bag, baby blanket, pillows, a snake toy, beret, tea cozy, slippers, scarves, multicolored mittens, and more. 95pp. Hb.