Felting Books

Alterknits Felt - $38.00
Leigh Radford. Radford pushes the boundaries of traditional felting. Through 30 colorful, vibrant projects, she shows readers how to knit and then felt their own handiwork, as well as how to create gorgeous felted objects from recycled knits and unspun fiber. An introductory chapter on felting basics explains everything you need to know to make the fabulous clothes, accessories, and home decor that follow. The projects range from a quick and easy circle coin purse, to a shibori bag, to a reverse-appliqué rug, each unusual in its own way, distinguished by a special surface texture, an innovative mix of techniques, or a quirky combination of yarns. AlterKnits Felt provides every crafter with the tools to explore—and expand—the art of felting. Hb.

Animal Felt - $69.00
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 - $23.00
Anne Einset Vickrey. This book has an abundance of useful felting lore from around the world. After some smaller projects comes the Scandinavian seamless technique for boots, hats, 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 - $35.00
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.

Fabulous Felted Hand-Knits - $8.00
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.

Felt Easy and Fun - $63.00
Brigitte Krag Hansen. With a little wool, a felting needle and your imagination, needlefelting little animals is fun and easy. All the animals in the book are based on the same basic shapes. The individual parts - body and head, legs and arms, ear and tails - are needled separately and assembled at the end. This method makes the animals easy to make, and there are many ways to vary them. The complete, step-by-step pictures and explanations make the book easy to use for everyone who likes to needlefelt, including children. 77pp. Hb.

Felt It! - $23.00
Maggie Pace. Growing numbers of knitters are throwing caution to the wind and tossing their wool creations into hot water washing machines, watching as hats, bags, and pillow covers shrink away to a fraction of their original size. The result is a soft, cozy felt, and it has tremendous allure for many knitters. From the purely practical to the wonderfully fun and frivolous, the 20 projects in Felt It! are irresistible examples of what is possible with wool, needles, and hot water. Charming, fuzzy flowers take center stage, with appearances on brooches, evening bags, bracelets, and pillows. Felted hats are the warmest toppers for the coldest days, and the appealing texture of felted wool is perfect for sturdy bags and backpacks. For the beginner, the Simple Stripes belt pattern requires just a few hours of work for a colorful felted accessory to wear with jeans. The truly adventurous felter will love the Night-Star Wrap, an elegant shawl that matches rich color with the warmth of alpaca and perfectly sets off a simple black evening dress. Author Maggie Pace explains all the basics of felting — how to choose wool, why some wools felt better than others, what size needles work best, how to shape projects, and how to monitor every second of the washing-machine process. At times, felting is an imprecise art, demanding inventiveness, creativity, and moxie from the knitter. 152pp. Pb.

Felt It! Stitch It! Fabulous! - $15.00
Katheryn Tidwell Bieber. Shrink, sew and, go: creating chic felted garments can be as easy as that. Anyone who’s accidentally put a favorite sweater through the laundry and had it come out in miniature form understands the basic process — and these 30 creative, simple projects make use of old wool garments cluttering the closet or purchased from a flea market. Craft trendy flower pins, a matching scarf and mitten set, a snuggly little bear hat, a fully functional and attractive backpack and much more. They’re all fabulous! 128pp. Pb.

Felt To Stitch: Creative Felting for Textile Artists - $40.00
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 Jewelry - $19.00
Candie Cooper. Felting is not just for fashion — it’s great for jewelry too! Plus, the craft’s quick, easy, and inexpensive: all you need is wool, soap, water, your hands, and a sense of fun. Aimed at both general crafters and jewelry artists, this rich collection offers an accessible introduction to the important techniques, including forming a flat sheet of felt; shaping the felt ball; adding embellishments; and stringing and wirework. Plus, it’s packed with trendy beading and needlework ideas. The jewelry box of 20 boutique-worthy projects features boldly colored stickpins, bracelets, and sassy cherry and berry dangling earrings. 112pp. Pb.

I [Heart] Felt: 33 Eye-Popping Projects for the Inspired Knitter - $19.00
Kathleen Taylor. This is a follow-up to the author's very successful first book on felting (Knit One, Felt Too), which was really meant as a beginner's guide. I [Heart] Felt will also be appropriate to newcomers in felting but it pushes the creative edges on just what you can do with felting, making for a hugely imaginative and engaging collection of 33 original designs -- she experiments with felting textured knitting (cabled knits, for example), felting colored knitting (either combining yarns, including novelty yarns, for subtle or outrageously eyecatching results or felting Fair Isle and other multicolored knitting), and embellishments, either worked directly into the knitting or added to the project after felting. 176pp. Pb.

Knit One, Felt Too - $19.00
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 - $26.00
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.

Needle Felting: Simple Techniques, Beautiful Projects - $6.00
Linda Lenich & Jennifer Kooy Zoeterman. Get a complete introduction to the hottest new craze in wool crafting -- needle felting. Learn all the basics, and then try your poke-and-punch skills in five fun projects. 32pp. Pb.

New Felt - $65.00
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.

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 - $50.00
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.

Shelia Smith's Introduction to Feltmaking: Techniques and Design Book 1 - $24.00
Sheila Smith. BACK IN PRINT! This series of books on feltmaking would make good textbooks for a feltmaking workshop. The first here works through the process in an organized manner. The author uses techniques from the long history of feltmaking. She likes to give depth to her felt with add on like yarn scraps, fabric pieces, etc. She also goes over some dyeing techniques for the fibers to be felted. 16pp. Pb.

Shelia Smith's Felt Without Seams: Making Hollow Forms Book 2 - $24.00
Sheila Smith. BACK IN PRINT! This second of the series introduces three-dimensional feltmaking for hats, slippers, bags, and more. This book will guide you through making felt hats that actually fit a human being. Good stuff in here. 16pp. Pb.

Shelia Smith's Beyond the Basics: Advanced Feltmaking Techniques Book 3 - $24.00
Sheila Smith. BACK IN PRINT! Book Three of this series is where all the material comes together into some really innovative ideas for taking feltmaking into the realm of art and new textile creation. The book looks at combining large pieces of fabric into the felt to create organized rucheing or puckers and Procion dyed strands of silk fiber for highlights brings this series and your workshop to a fine conclusion. 16pp. Pb.

Simply Felt: 20 Easy and Elegant Designs in Wool - $33.00
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.

Wool Felting Workshop - $14.00
Vivian Peritts. Inside, find out everything you need to get started, from choosing the right sweaters to the most reliable method of felting, cutting, and combining the materials. Detailed assembly instructions and helpful patterns will have the crafter duplicating the projects with ease. With 50 fantastic home decor ideas for throw rugs, pot holders, pillows, and ottoman covers—even a cute baby blanket—crafters will soon be felting away. 128pp. Pb.

Wool Pets: Making 20 Figures with Wool Roving and a Barbed Needle - $18.00
Laurie Sharp. Learn how to sculpt wool roving with a barbed felting needle to make three-dimensional figures and animals. Using only wool, a needle, and a foam pad you can create birds, bugs, giraffes, trolls, penguins, and mermaids. No need to cut or wet the wool: just shape and needle it, adding details as you go. With superb photography and easy-to-follow instructions, Wool Pets explains the techniques and gives you the tools to make your own freeform figures. Make them into mobiles, ornaments, or fashion accessories. Arrange them in shadowboxes or perch them on dressers and windowsills. These adorable pets are always irresistible. 128pp. Pb.

Felting Needle Punch x 5 - $27.00
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.