The fun fur type yarn might work, as long as your base yarn is wool of the non-superwash variety. I've used fun furs as a carry along yarn in felted slippers before, but only non-superwash animal fiber yarns (85% or higher animal fiber) will felt successfully.

How to Make Santa Doll Dolls are children's' first best friend. They serve a purpose as friends because with dolls they teach nurturing and they are really a child's first step to becoming social. Dolls can be found in almost any household in toy boxes, on shelves full of collectible dolls, on top of wedding cakes, movie star dolls in a room and sports dolls that reside in a manly sports room. Imagine how your children become happier when this Christmas season, a Santa doll is there. How to make it on your own? Here are some materials and steps to create it. Before anything else, you must prepare the materials to be used. Prepare felt (skin), polyester fiberfill, absorbent cotton (neck), stick (neck core), furry yarn (hair and brows), artificial leather (boots and belt), woolen or cotton cloth (clothes), furry cloth (beard and rimming), thick paper (sole), snap fasteners, and elastic. You also need tools such as sewing kit (sewing machine, needles, scissors, awl, chalk, and so on), threads, craft glue, a stick to stuff, rouge for cheeks, and color for painting face. For a pattern for Santa doll, start by drawing a shape of Santa's body on paper for the body. Draw a circle sitting on one short end of the rectangle for the head.

Next, round the outer corners of the body and the inner corners where the head meets the body in order to shape the pattern. Place the pattern on a doubled piece of chosen body fabric with the right sides facing. Draw around the pattern and when you're done, sew on the drawn lines, leaving the bottom of the body unstitched. Cut the body out a 1/4 inch from the stitched lines. Clip the corners and turn right side out and stuff the head and body firmly and close the open end. Make your own Santa doll as fanciful as you would like. The normal size for a leg pattern would be the measurement from the bottom of the body to almost the top of the head and slightly narrower than half the body width. Use the cotton for its neck and don't forget to portray the image of Santa Claus. Use fabric that will mimic stockings and cut two for each leg. Sew the legs the same as the body, using a 1/4 inch seam allowance. Turn and stuff the legs and close the ends. Attach the legs to the bottom seam on the doll's body. Make the arms as long as the doll's body and slightly narrower than the doll's legs and repeat the sewing used for the legs. Turn and stuff the arms and close the ends. Attach the arms to the shoulder seams of the body. Above all, don't forget the costume of your Santa doll according to what you desire.