Colourful Felted Eggs

Here are some beautiful felted eggs. This tutorial will take you step by step through how they are made.

Take a Styrofoam egg and a hunk of dyed roving in the colour of your choice

Divide the roving up into approximately 1″ wide strips.

Begin wrapping the egg with the roving trying to cover it evenly.

Take another strip and wrap the egg horizontally.

Needle felt the entire surface to get the felting process started and to help keep things together.


Step 2: Adding details.


Break off smaller bits of roving in contrasting colours. Add these in circles, spirals, or stripes and gently needle felt into place.

Be careful when needling not to over do it in any one area as this can break down the Styrofoam form inside and make your finished egg misshapen.

Continue adding additional stripes and needling them into place.

Step 3: Wet felting/fulling

Fill your sink with hot water (as hot as you can comfortably put your hands into.)

Gently immerse egg and “squish” water through it to completely saturate the wool.

Squirt a small amount of dish soap on egg and work it into a good lather.

Continue to roll the egg between your hands while keeping the wool warm and soapy. The stripes or other shapes will want to shift around so gently push them back into shape every so often.

The warm soapy water will open up the scales on the wool and enable them to lock together. The friction of rubbing it in your hands also helps to mat the fibres together.

Alternate between the hot soapy water and some cold water and continue to rub.


When the wool is tight against the foam form and has a nice hard surface, continue to rinse until all the soap is gone and then squeeze the excess water out in a towel.

Let dry completely.

You can also take it a step further and add embroidery stitches to help define the coloured shaped and to add some more detail and texture.