- Contents:Basics -- Feltmaking tools and supplies -- Layout and felting -- 3-D basics -- Dyeing -- Carding -- Flat braiding -- Projects / Designs by Chad -- Airy fairy scarf -- Mr. Saturday night -- Boa boa -- Bark scarf -- Blackbeard -- Inge's fancy -- Dread nauts -- Lily pad wrap -- Magic muffler -- Bubble boa -- Designs by Jorie -- Dip dyed party scarf -- Fallen leaves collar -- Father's Day braided muffler -- Honeycomb scarf -- Granny Warner's lace shawl -- Wedding stole -- Lei collar -- Link muffler series -- Chalk drawings muffler -- Snow people scarf -- Rainbow ribbons.

Craft trendy flower pins, a matching scarf and mitten set, a snuggly little bear hat, a fully functional and attractive backpack and much more.

A guide to felting demonstrates how different fabrics react to the process of transforming wool yarn into a dense, textured material, and includes sample swatches, patterns, stitches, and techniques for creating mosaics, cables, and lace.

Crafter Maggie Pace converts avid knitters of all kinds into industrious, smiling felters in this fun, easygoing guide to the simplest of fiber crafts. Pace guides you through 20 fabulous knittable accessory projects and shows you how to transform them with a quick trip through the washing machine. From hats and bags to scarves and sew-on embellishments, this simple method produces soft felt every time, and is versatile enough to work with any knit-worthy piece you can dream up.

Internationally-known felt artist Chad Hagen shows just how simple, good-looking, and varied feltmaking can be, as she guides you through the basics of making more than a dozen spectacular hand-sculpted hats. Here are 15 patterns with endless variations, all in classic shapes, and transformed into unique fashion statements with fanciful touches and exquisite embellishments. Berets have 'wings,' snoods come with long tails just right for scrunching up, and caps feature soft felt spikes or long "dreadlocks" to tie in knots. Even the most traditional designs, such as pillboxes and brimmed hats, sport whimsical tiny safety pins or beads and buttons. For those who prefer not to start from scratch, there's even advice on jazzing up store-bought hats.

After studying textile design in both the USA and Finland, author Jorie Johnson was introduced to the felt making process in 1977 when she was first taught Scandinavian felt boot-making. She was immediately struck by felt's amazing properties and possibilities. Through this book, Feltmaking and Wool Magic, you will see that Jorie's approach to felt making is clearly creative as well as effective. The book covers in detail, basic step by step felt making techniques, then goes on to present a series of projects from simple jewelry to beautiful vests.

Eddie just wants to mind his own business on Christmas Eve. So he’ll be sleeping on the street tonight—so what? He can handle the cold. But of course some obnoxious do-gooder from the shelter across town sees a homeless veteran and wants to earn herself a gold star by helping him out. She’s hopelessly naive, the poor thing. She doesn’t understand that there are monsters on the streets, even on Christmas Eve. If he were a younger man, he’d take this opportunity to add another body to his collection. But he doesn’t do that kind of thing anymore. He’ll have to find another way to scare her off. Too bad she’s as persistent as she is annoying. If it’s the only way to get rid of her, he might just have to let her do something nice for him after all. This short story is 3900 words long. It is also available in Santa’s Rejects, a collection of offbeat Christmas stories.