Focus on Felt
When I first started selling bits and pieces of my handmade things, I used quite a lot of felt and really struggled to get hold of good quality felt sheets for my projects. It’s so different now – there are masses of options, here are the ones that I’ve bought from and can properly recommend.
Blooming Felt sell 100% wool sheets in 2 thicknesses. The 1.5mm pieces are 8″ square, and the 4mm thick sheets are available in 10″ squares or 1 metre squares. There are masses of colours available and the quality is great.
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I have a real affection for Handmade Presents as it was the first place I managed to find some 100% wool felt. They have a large selection of different sizes and thicknesses available. They also have a very beautiful selection of organic plant dyed wool felt sheets.
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The lovely Jenny and Joe at The Felted Rainbow sell a great recycled felt – this fabric is made in the USA from Eco-fi, a high-quality polyester fibre made from 100% post-consumer recycled plastic bottles. Although it’s a distant relation to wool felt, it’s a brilliant fabric to work with. It comes in a fantastic range of colours (they have 34 in stock at the moment(, and it has a fuzzy, bouncy character that is great for crafting with or for kids, doing applique and much much more. I love using it for pincushions – like I did here in my cupcake tute - because it’s fab for sticking pins into!
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The Eternal Maker have a lovely wide range of good value wool-rich felt (usually about 30% wool and 70% rayon) in a lovely big variety of colours. You can buy it in 10cm increments off the bolt, which is 90cm wide. They also have some very sweet charm pack bundles in coordinating colourways, like this one.
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The Wool Felt Shop is owned by the same people who run the excellent fabric shop, Fabric Inspirations. They stock natural pure wool felt sheets in over 30 colours, as well as 30% wool blend felt squares. The felt sheets are available in 2 sizes, 20cm x 30cm and 1/2 metre (50cm x 90cm). The wool felt meets the European toy making standards.
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Cloud Craft on Etsy sell 100% wool felt that’s 1.5mm thick and comes in around 44 different colours. There are 3 different sizes of felt pieces to choose from, and the felt meets European toy standards. You can buy single sheets, themed bundles, or create your own bundles. They also have a selection of cute craft trims.
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Guides to buying felt, linen, haberdashery, Liberty Lawn & organic/fair trade fabrics.
