by Teresa Perleberg | Dec 11, 2025
Home /Bear Creek Felting The 12 Days of Felting On the 12th day of Christmas, my true love gave to me… another needle felting kit! Sounds like an ideal gift to me! I’ll probably be working on some new crafts throughout the 12 days of Christmas. What better...
by Teresa Perleberg | Nov 14, 2025
Home /Blog 5 Christmas Presents Every Needle Felter Needs 5 Christmas Presents Every Needle Felter Needs Shopping for a needle felter can be tricky — if you want to truly surprise the needle felter in your life with a thoughtful, meaningful gift, choose something...
by Teresa Perleberg | Nov 12, 2025
Home /Blog Finding the Best Needle Felting Cushion Finding the Best Needle Felting Cushion If you’ve ever spent hours happily stabbing away at wool, you already know—your needle felting cushion is more than just a surface. It’s your foundation, your safety zone, and...
by Teresa Perleberg | Oct 18, 2025
Home /Blog When Needle Felting Projects Don’t Work Out Have you ever spent hours on a project, only to step back and realize… you don’t like it at all? The colors are wrong, the shape looks off, and the expression just isn’t right? I’ve been there—more times than I’d...
by Teresa Perleberg | Oct 3, 2025
Home /Blog Celebrate Wooltober: Make Needle Felting a Daily Creative Habit Make October “Wooltober” with Daily Needle Felting October is my favorite season—the crisp air, cozy sweaters, and trees dressed in fiery autumn colors. It’s also the perfect time to cozy up...
by Teresa Perleberg | Aug 28, 2025
Home /Blog The Power of Emotional Support Crafts: Healing Through Making Life can feel noisy and overwhelming these days. Our phones constantly buzz, to-do lists never end, and we’re often pulled in a hundred different directions at once. In the middle of all this,...
by Teresa Perleberg | Aug 11, 2025 |
Home /Blog Wool In All Its Glory: 10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know! Like all the best things in life, great craftsmanship is simple. A chef can’t prepare world-class delicacies without pure ingredients. Farmers can’t yield a plentiful harvest without sowing robust...
by Teresa Perleberg | Jul 28, 2025 |
Home /Blog The Brief History of Needle Felting and Why You Should Join this Amazing Tradition If you’ve stumbled across this blog, chances are you’re curious about needle felting—what it is, where it comes from, and whether it might be the craft you’ve been looking...
by Teresa Perleberg | Jul 21, 2025
Home /Blog Needle Felting Projects for Beginners: Getting Started with Bear Creek Felting Learning needle felting can be a rewarding experience, and with the right guidance, beginners can achieve success in their projects. At Bear Creek Felting, we understand the...
by Teresa Perleberg | Jul 14, 2025
Home /Blog Understanding Felting Needles: A Guide to Construction, Functionality, and More A Guide to Felting Needles: My Favorites and How I Use Them Felting needles are the heart of needle felting. These specialized tools are what allow us to sculpt loose fibers...
by Teresa Perleberg | Jul 5, 2025
Home /Blog Why a Little Hay in Your Felting Wool Is a Good Thing If you’ve ever worked with high-quality, small-batch roving and found a tiny bit of hay or straw, you’ve encountered VM in felting wool—short for vegetable matter. It’s a completely natural part of...
by Teresa Perleberg | May 5, 2025
Home /Blog How To Attach Body Parts To Your Needle Felting One of the first big surprises for beginners is learning that needle felted sculptures aren’t sewn or glued together. Those adorable little snowmen, penguins, or llamas you see? Their body parts are felted...
by Teresa Perleberg | Apr 26, 2025
Home /Blog The Heart of the Farm in Every Fiber Needle felting, for me, is a way to stay connected to the land, the animals, and the generations who came before me. Every time I pick up a felting needle and a handful of wool, I’m not just creating art; I’m continuing...
by Teresa Perleberg | Apr 21, 2025
Home /Author: Teresa Perleberg Are You Ready to Sell Your Creations? There comes a time in every needle felters life when they’re caught in the unknown. They’ve been felting creations for quite awhile and their collection is growing and growing. They’ve given a...
by Teresa Perleberg | Apr 4, 2025
Home /Author: Teresa Perleberg A Friendly Guide to Needle Felting I hear it all the time: “Wow, your needle-felted creations look amazing, I wish I could do that!” Well, guess what — you can! It may look complex, but like any art form, it just takes...
