How to Use felting in a Sentence

felting

noun
  • Steger notes that felting, weaving, and wood burning kits come with tools that can last years.
    — Sunset Magazine, 1 Feb. 2022
  • Demonstrations will take place on split ply braiding, tablet weaving, wet felting and more.
    — Courant Community, 30 May 2017
  • Stop by to browse, or take a fiber art class in a unique type of fiber art, like Tunisian crochet or needle felting.
    — Angela Lian, Travel + Leisure, 15 Aug. 2025
  • Heat and agitation from the dryer can cause felting, shrinkage and wear and tear with wool.
    — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Heat and agitation from the dryer can cause felting, shrinkage, and wear and tear with wool.
    — Lexie Sachs, Good Housekeeping, 16 Mar. 2023
  • At that time, Konkus did mostly fiber arts such as felting, knitting and crocheting.
    — Lyndi McNulty, Baltimore Sun, 18 Dec. 2022
  • Items that can’t be upcycled are placed into a felting machine that makes home textiles and wall hangings.
    — Vogue, 14 Aug. 2019
  • On June 17, the focus shifts to the arts of spinning, weaving, knitting and felting.
    — Courant Community, 30 May 2017
  • The rocks are dotted with tufts of green moss, also fabricated by Arnold in a unique felting process that pairs velvet with wool fiber.
    — Susan Brown, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 June 2023
  • Out of that came the Third Life program, our felting initiative, and the upcycling.
    — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2022
  • This year, there's even more, with air rockets, building bridges, loom weaving, felting, the art of wood burning, and more making up the day's schedule.
    — Michael Walsh, Courant Community, 26 Apr. 2018
  • This needle felting kit is made for anyone whose aesthetic revolves around woodland creatures like these cute hedgehogs.
    — Meghan Kavanaugh, USA TODAY, 4 Nov. 2020
  • Gayle Mathews is exhibiting her needle felting animals and has added fun fish to the collection.
    — Lyndi McNulty, Baltimore Sun, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Booths feature handmade arts and crafts including woodworking, felting and fiber arts, painting, artisan foods and more.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 27 Nov. 2019
  • The technique of felting was developed several thousand years ago by the nomads of Central Asia.
    — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2023
  • All of this can be yours with this adorable animal felting kit that teaches you how to create these precious little figures by way of an instruction manual (or video).
    — Talia Abbas, Glamour, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The week features classes and artist talks dedicated to the fiber arts, including knitting, sewing, weaving, crocheting and felting.
    — Brian E. Clark, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 10 Jan. 2020
  • In addition to quilting, visitors can see tapestry, weaving, felting and many other ventures with fabric.
    — Tracey Teo, ajc, 28 Mar. 2022
  • Sheep-to-souvenir felting — Lapland, Finland.
    — Hanna Wickes, Sacbee.com, 29 May 2026
  • Or there’s Didi and Bishnu Shrestha from Nepal who work with a team of women at a felting table to create scarves and purses by fusing felt with fabric.
    — Faye Reeder, star-telegram.com, 21 May 2017
  • In addition to supplying wool for felting and fertilizer for the soil, Pate hopes to breed more Valais Blacknose sheep for grazing purposes.
    — Michael Alberty | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 6 Mar. 2021
  • Their work includes weaving, basketry, sculpture, quilting, embroidery, felting, surface design, knitting, crochet, wearables and mixed media.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Jan. 2023
  • Courses span a Saturday morning sewing club for kids ages 8 to 12 to six-session sewing bootcamps to specific courses on denim felting, hand embroidery and kite making.
    — Angela Velasquez, Footwear News, 27 May 2026
  • Outside, on a tarmac dotted with planters where gas pumps had probably been, kids ran in circles, laughing, while a picnic table hosted a colorful felting project; inside, a child's birthday party and crafting session were under way.
    — Tess Taylor, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 May 2022
  • The exhibit features artwork by members of the Textile Art Alliance and includes quilts, weavings, needle-felting, batiks, knit and crochet items, fabric collage and wearable art.
    — cleveland, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The space — across the street from 5 Points Plaza and Trader Joe’s — invites members of all skill levels in sewing, knitting, crochet, embroidery, quilting, doll and teddy bear making, needle felting and painting.
    — Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 2 Mar. 2026
  • Sheep-to-souvenir felting — Lapland, Finland Part of a Finland Family Holiday, this workshop takes place on a remote estate outside Rovaniemi.
    — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 29 May 2026
  • Last month's display was the fourth annual Fiber Arts Exhibition that showcased original artwork featuring interpretations of traditional types of fiber art, including embroidery, quilting, dyeing, weaving and felting.
    — Stephen Simpson, Arkansas Online, 4 Dec. 2019

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