Since July 2022, Karen Tran has been hiding needle-felted animal tchotchkes around Boston. The creatures are made by stabbing wool roving into the small, gumball-size rotund shape of a koala or a ...

Artist Lesley-Anne Green started out as a ceramist and then transitioned into doll making. But when she came across the art of needle felting, she never looked back. In a matter of hours, Green can ...

For holiday decorating and gift-making, fast and easy always win. Adorable doesn’t hurt, either. Needle felting hits all three targets. “It’s got one of the least bumpy learning curves of anything ...

Whether tigers or tortoises, field mice or feathered peacocks, artisanal creatures are a celebration of life itself. By Ligaya Mishan WITH EACH STAB of the needle, the fibers catch, twist and snarl.