felt, felted, felled

Felt or felt is the past tense of "feel", meaning to perceive by touch or sensation, or to be emotionally affected--
He felt the bricks of the doorway, and found the door handle.
He felt the old sweater, his favorite.
He felt cold, so he put on a sweater.
He felt angry when his boss ignored his suggestions.


Felt ot felt also means a non-woven fabric, matted together under pressure, used to make decorations, slippers, coats, and hats--
Our grandfather always wore a felt hat.
She wore a coat made of heavy felt.

Felt also means to make something into a fabric similar to felt--
If you felt that old sweater, you can make it into a pair of slippers.

Felted or felted is the past tense of "felt", meaning to make something into a fabric similar to felt--
She felted some old wool sweaters, and used them to make mittens.
She shrank that in hot water and felted the surface, to make a warm hat.
Felted also describes something altered to give it a surface that looks similar to felt fabric--
This is made of some old wool that has been felted.

Fell or fell is the past tense of "fall", meaning to tumble or drop down--
The leaf fell from the tree.
He fell off the ladder.

Fell also means to cut down a tree, or to knock or take down something, as when shooting an animal--
He used his axe to fell a tree.
He used his gun to fell a deer.

Fell also means to turn over a seam and sew it flat, like the seam on blue jeans--
Those pants will be sturdier if you fell the seams.
She made plain seams, because she didn't know how to fell them.

Felled is the past tense of "fell", meaning to cut down a tree--
He felled the tree with his axe.
Felled is also the past tense of "fell", meaning to sew a seam flat--
She felled all of the seams, to make pants that would last a long time.

Now that you know that, you can say--
"She fell off the chair, and felt a pain in her knee, trying to reach a box of felt decorations."
"She felted the old sweater, and felled the seams of the new mittens she made."
"He felt sad when he felled the tree, and a bird's nest fell out of it."

Note--not to be confused with "felt it", meaning perceived something ( it ) by touch or sensation--
He knew it was his old sweater when he felt it.
OR--"felt it", meaning altering something ( it ) to make a surface similar to felt fabric--
You could make that sweater into a hat the way it is, or you could felt it first.