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Popular Patterns
From booties to hats, purses, and tea cosies, felting offers almost limitless creative possibilities. Where do you start?
An easy way to try felting is by "fulling," or felting knitted garments. These patterns aren't always easy to find, depending on where you live. To help you get started, here's a compilation of some of the most popular felting and fulling patterns, with links to where you can buy them online.
Hats
Mittens
Slippers and Booties
Miscelanious Items
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Popular Patterns
From booties to hats, purses, and tea cosies, felting offers almost limitless creative possibilities. Where do you start?
An easy way to try felting is by "fulling," or felting knitted garments. These patterns aren't always easy to find, depending on where you live. To help you get started, here's a compilation of some of the most popular felting and fulling patterns, with links to where you can buy them online.
Hats
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Brimmed hat with three styles of brim. Knit on large needles (size ll) with heavy worsted-weight wool. Available at Halcyon Yarn |
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Felt berets knit in single strand worsted-weight wool. Pattern includes two band styles and several finishing ideas. We've tried this pattern and the results are excellent.
Available at Halcyon Yarn. Not in online catalog yet, so call in your order at 800-341-0282. |
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Felt earflat hat pattern. A toasty warm hat for children or adults. Pattern includes three child sizes and three adult sizes. Knit on large needles (size 10 1/2 or 11) with worsted to bulky-weight wool. Available at The Naked Sheep |
Mittens
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Snow country felted mittens. Sizes small (youth) women's and men's. Uses two worsted-weight yarns held together on size 11 double pointed needles. This pattern is one of our tried-and-true favorites. Available at Halcyon Yarn |
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Suzanne Pufpaff's felted mittens have easy to follow instructions from start to finish. Pattern requires approximately 4 ounces of wool fiber to make a pair. Embellish them with bits of color design.
Available at Halcyon Yarn |
Slippers and Booties
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Charming animal felt booties shaped like rabbits, puppies, or mice. Sized for infants 0-3 mo, 3-6 mo, 6-9 mo.
Uses worsted-weight yarn. Available at The Naked Sheep |
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Easy felt boot slippers pattern in men's and women's sizes. Uses worsted-weight yarn. Available at Halcyon Yarn Not in online catalog yet, so call in your order at 800-341-0282 |
Miscelanious Items
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Little felt teddy bears and matching felt hats. Birth announcement is included in each pattern. Uses worsted-weight yarn. Available at The Mannings Handweaving School and Supply Center |
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Cute bunnies to knit and felt using a variety of yarns. Available at The Mannings Handweaving School and Supply Center |
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Create your own flock of sheep! Pattern calls for worsted- or bulky-weight yarns. Available at The Mannings Handweaving School and Supply Center |
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Make these felted alpacas and llamas with worsted- or bulky-weight yarn. Available at The Mannings Handweaving School and Supply Center |
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Use these felt pouches and bag patterns as a point of departure for your own experimentation! Available at The Mannings Handweaving School and Supply Center |
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More About Felting
Introduction The Physics of Felting How to Felt in Six Easy Steps Tips and Tricks Felting with Brown Sheep Yarns