About Bear Creek Felting

From Pasture to Project

Bear Creek Felting is a North Dakota farm-based fiber arts business built around sheep, wool, creativity, and teaching.

What began as curiosity about wool grew into a business centered on helping people experience the satisfaction of making something with their own hands. Today, our needle felting kits, wool, classes, retreats, and online Academy all begin with the same idea: give people quality materials, clear instruction, and the confidence to create.

It Started With a Lamb

Our story began after my daughter Libbie and I had just learned how to knit. When her birthday came around, she asked for something a little unusual—a lamb.

We purchased Romney lambs from a woman who also happened to be a needle felter. She invited us to a spinning guild, where we were introduced to even more of the fiber arts. That experience opened the door to needle felting, and I quickly fell in love with the possibilities of sculpting with wool.

I began needle felting in 2006 and opened Bear Creek Felting in 2008. What started as a small creative business grew into something much bigger than I ever imagined.

Libbie with her birthday lamb—the beginning of a journey we never could have imagined.

Wool Raised With a Purpose

Sheep are still at the heart of Bear Creek Felting.

We raise our own flock here in North Dakota, with a strong Romney foundation and carefully chosen crosses that produce wool especially well suited for needle felting. I have spent years learning how different fibers behave and what makes wool felt firmly, smoothly, and predictably.

The wool is washed, carded, dyed, and prepared in our own small fiber mill. Having control over the process from sheep to finished wool allows us to create materials specifically for the way needle felters actually use them.

That connection between the animal, the fiber, and the finished project is a big part of what makes Bear Creek different.

Kits Designed to Help You Succeed

Every Bear Creek Felting kit is designed to take the uncertainty out of getting started.

The projects are developed with clear steps, quality wool, printed photo instructions, and, for many kits, companion videos that let you work alongside me as you felt.

Whether you are making your very first project or adding another sculpture to a growing collection, the goal is the same: to help you enjoy the process and finish with something you are proud to have made.

More Than Kits

Over the years, Bear Creek Felting has grown beyond products.

Through the Bear Creek Needle Felting Academy, in-person classes, and retreats here in North Dakota, I have had the opportunity to teach needle felting to people from across the United States and beyond.

Some arrive convinced that they are “not creative.” Then they watch a handful of loose wool slowly turn into an animal in their hands.

That transformation is still one of my favorite parts of this work.

Made in North Dakota, Shared Everywhere

Bear Creek Felting is still rooted in the same place where it began; among sheep, pasture, wool, and family in rural North Dakota.

Our work now travels much farther than our farm. Kits and wool leave our shop every week for homes, classrooms, yarn shops, and creative spaces across the country.

But the heart of the business remains wonderfully simple:

Raise good sheep. Produce good wool. Teach people what they can create with it.

That is Bear Creek Felting—from pasture to project.