Photo gallery: How to make festive snow folk

By Jo Calvert
Designed by Susan Filshie
Photography by Rachel Singer

This inexpensive and portable holiday craft is perfect for low-key, fireside chats with friends and family. Needle felting is also called "dry felting," and is a method of sculpting loose unspun wool (called roving), using a barbed felting needle that locks or felts the fibres together.

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Felting frosty snowfolk

A newly popular craft, needle felting has Toronto designer Susan Filshie hooked, so when her cousins held their pre-Christmas get-together last year, she took along a huge bag of unspun wool fleece and some felting needles. "Before I knew it," she says, "everyone who wasn't in the kitchen was gathered around the felting table."


This story was originally titled "Festive Snow Folk" in the December 2008 issue. Subscribe to Canadian Living today and never miss an issue!



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