Textiles & Fiber Art

A Science Teacher Took Up Felting While Recovering. Now Her Small Creatures Sell Out in a Day

Karin Celestine was a science and craft teacher when she got cancer. She couldn’t do her usual crafts in bed, so she started needle felting while recovering – and friends began asking to buy the animals. Today her smaller woodland creatures usually sell out within 24 hours of a collection going live, and her animals star in 13 picture books.

Oct 23, 2026