Course Outline

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English

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About this Course

Skills Focus: Needle Felting a Small Animal
Difficulty Level: Beginner – Intermediate
Helpful Experience to Have: Basic Needle Felting
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 2-day in person workshop

Discover Irina’s “Acrylic Impregnation” technique in shaping Rusty’s expressive ears! This sweet pup also features a colorful coat, emotive eyes, and a big bone to chew! His swivel head lets him look left and right for all the best treats!

Skills you will Learn:

• How to needle felt a miniature 3D Dog in Irina’s cute caricature style!
• Build up the head by needle felting detailed individual parts that will be assembled together
• Express emotion in needle felting the shape of the eyebrows, and in making the polymer clay eyes
• Use pastels to shade and tint the wool and give depth and shadow to Rusty’s face and body
• Learn Irina’s technique of Acrylic Impregnation to fix Rusty’s ears into place (this technique is optional)
• Needle felt all the shapes of Rusty’s body, and give color to his belly
• Shape the individual limbs and detail the tiny paws that will hold his bone
• Needle felt a tail, and assemble all the pieces of Rusty’s body
• Attach Rusty’s head to make him able to look left and right
• Apply pastel shading to Rusty’s back to give him fantastic depth of color
• Create a furry texture for Rusty’s coat
• Make the polymer clay eyes and bone for Rusty

Included in this course

• 24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
• High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
• Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
• Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Meet the Instructor:

Irina Egorova

Irina Egorova is a felt artist and teacher, who creates beautiful miniature animal sculptures from colored wool using the dry felting technique, and blends additional methods of art into her fantastic felt creations!

She lives in St. Petersburg, Russia, with her friendly family – her husband (Technical Support), twins Katyusha and Andryushka, and twins Kitty the Cat (Advertising Director) and Juicy the Dog (Quality Content Director).

Irina is a zoologist by education, and uses her background in biology to fulfill her creativity as a full-time artist and teacher. Her favorite characters are insects, but all of her creatures have their own tales and personalities.

All of Irina’s fun felted critters all have one thing in common – irony and good humor, and this is exactly what is so in demand in today’s world and what she really enjoys expressing through her felt art.

Since becoming interested in felting in 2008, Irina has been actively involved in public creative life, taking part in exhibitions (Doll Time, Doll Art, Fashionable Lyalka, Moscow Fair, TeddyMir, Handicraft Formula), festivals (Festival of Felting Masters, Wool) , conferences (NIADA, USA), published articles in magazines (Doll Master, My Moleskine, Mom’s Dad’s Magazine) and more!

Fate gave Irina a happy opportunity to touch the world of puppetry, and she devotes herself to creativity and teaching with great pleasure. Thanks to her humble contribution, more joy and beauty are added to the world through her creatures.

Course Outline

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English

Enroll Today!

About this Course

Skills Focus: Needle Felting a Small Animal
Difficulty Level: Beginner – Intermediate
Helpful Experience to Have: Basic Needle Felting
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 2-day in person workshop

Needle felt a detailed mini meerkat who can raise up his arms and wave “hello!” Learn Irina’s methods for shading the meerkat’s striped back, fuzzy ears, and smiling face! Make tiny eyes and claws, and use Irina’s “Acrylic Impregnation” technique for fine details.

Skills you will Learn:

• How to needle felt a mini 3D Meerkat
• Use reference in shaping the Meerkat head and body details
• Felt a firm base shape for the head, and add the muzzle, nose, and cheeks, and form a smiling mouth
• Plan for where to put the polymer clay eyes on the face
• Shape the tiny Meerkat ears and attach them in the correct position on the head
• Sculpt and attach polymer clay eyes that add a simple, yet playful and emotive look to your Meerkat
• Shade details of the face, eyes, and ears to add depth and shadow detail
• Needle felt the elements of the body, including the delicate arms, legs, and tail that will all be assembled together
• Felt a firm body in which to insert the armatured limbs
• Assemble the limbs and tail securely to the body
• Attach the Meerkat’s arms in a way that allow them to move and raise up and wave “hello!”
• Make the tiny claws from clay details, and learn how to insert and fix such small details
• Use Irina’s technique of “Acrylic Impregnation” to hold the paws and ear in perfect place (this technique is optional)
• Use shading techniques along the Meerkat’s back to create a vibrant striped pattern
• Create a fuzzy texture on the head and back of the Meerkat to give him fur

Included in this course

• 24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
• High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
• Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
• Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Meet the Instructor:

Irina Egorova

Irina Egorova is a felt artist and teacher, who creates beautiful miniature animal sculptures from colored wool using the dry felting technique, and blends additional methods of art into her fantastic felt creations!

She lives in St. Petersburg, Russia, with her friendly family – her husband (Technical Support), twins Katyusha and Andryushka, and twins Kitty the Cat (Advertising Director) and Juicy the Dog (Quality Content Director).

Irina is a zoologist by education, and uses her background in biology to fulfill her creativity as a full-time artist and teacher. Her favorite characters are insects, but all of her creatures have their own tales and personalities.

All of Irina’s fun felted critters all have one thing in common – irony and good humor, and this is exactly what is so in demand in today’s world and what she really enjoys expressing through her felt art.

Since becoming interested in felting in 2008, Irina has been actively involved in public creative life, taking part in exhibitions (Doll Time, Doll Art, Fashionable Lyalka, Moscow Fair, TeddyMir, Handicraft Formula), festivals (Festival of Felting Masters, Wool) , conferences (NIADA, USA), published articles in magazines (Doll Master, My Moleskine, Mom’s Dad’s Magazine) and more!

Fate gave Irina a happy opportunity to touch the world of puppetry, and she devotes herself to creativity and teaching with great pleasure. Thanks to her humble contribution, more joy and beauty are added to the world through her creatures.

Course Outline

Enroll Today!

About this Course

Skills Focus: Needle Felting a Small Animal
Difficulty Level: Beginner – Intermediate
Helpful Experience to Have: Basic Needle Felting
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 2-day in person workshop

With a wide open mouth, shaded and textural fur, and grabby clay paws, this hungry little hamster is ready to steal your heart!

Skills you will Learn:

• Needle felt a wide-open mouth cavity that you can insert a peanut or acorn into to feed your hungry hamster!
• Shape the individual elements of the hamster head like his pointy nose and puffy cheeks, and assemble them all together
• How to plan for the Hamster’s eyes, needle felt sockets, and tint with pastels
• Attach expressive polymer clay eyes
• Detail the Hamster’s face, nose, ears and all with fine felting and shading techniques
• Build the fat Hamster body from eating all those peanuts!
• Join the Hamster’s head and the body together and pose him to be looking upward
• Make arms, legs, and a tail for your Hamster, and attach them to the body
• Give your Hamster some color shading, and create a furry texture all around his body and head.
• Make Teeth, Paws, and Eyes from polymer clay, and secure them to your Hamster for the final touch!

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English

Included in this course

• 24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
• High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
• Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
• Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Meet the Instructor:

Irina Egorova

Irina Egorova is a felt artist and teacher, who creates beautiful miniature animal sculptures from colored wool using the dry felting technique, and blends additional methods of art into her fantastic felt creations!

She lives in St. Petersburg, Russia, with her friendly family – her husband (Technical Support), twins Katyusha and Andryushka, and twins Kitty the Cat (Advertising Director) and Juicy the Dog (Quality Content Director).

Irina is a zoologist by education, and uses her background in biology to fulfill her creativity as a full-time artist and teacher. Her favorite characters are insects, but all of her creatures have their own tales and personalities.

All of Irina’s fun felted critters all have one thing in common – irony and good humor, and this is exactly what is so in demand in today’s world and what she really enjoys expressing through her felt art.

Since becoming interested in felting in 2008, Irina has been actively involved in public creative life, taking part in exhibitions (Doll Time, Doll Art, Fashionable Lyalka, Moscow Fair, TeddyMir, Handicraft Formula), festivals (Festival of Felting Masters, Wool) , conferences (NIADA, USA), published articles in magazines (Doll Master, My Moleskine, Mom’s Dad’s Magazine) and more!

Fate gave Irina a happy opportunity to touch the world of puppetry, and she devotes herself to creativity and teaching with great pleasure. Thanks to her humble contribution, more joy and beauty are added to the world through her creatures.

Course Outline

Meet the Instructor:
Irina Egorova

Irina Egorova is a felt artist and teacher, who creates beautiful miniature animal sculptures from colored wool using the dry felting technique, and blends additional methods of art into her fantastic felt creations!

She lives in St. Petersburg, Russia, with her friendly family – her husband (Technical Support), twins Katyusha and Andryushka, and twins Kitty the Cat (Advertising Director) and Juicy the Dog (Quality Content Director).

Irina is a zoologist by education, and uses her background in biology to fulfill her creativity as a full-time artist and teacher. Her favorite characters are insects, but all of her creatures have their own tales and personalities.

All of Irina’s fun felted critters all have one thing in common – irony and good humor, and this is exactly what is so in demand in today’s world and what she really enjoys expressing through her felt art.

Since becoming interested in felting in 2008, Irina has been actively involved in public creative life, taking part in exhibitions (Doll Time, Doll Art, Fashionable Lyalka, Moscow Fair, TeddyMir, Handicraft Formula), festivals (Festival of Felting Masters, Wool) , conferences (NIADA, USA), published articles in magazines (Doll Master, My Moleskine, Mom’s Dad’s Magazine) and more!

Fate gave Irina a happy opportunity to touch the world of puppetry, and she devotes herself to creativity and teaching with great pleasure. Thanks to her humble contribution, more joy and beauty are added to the world through her creatures.

Enroll Today!

About this Course

Skills Focus: Needle Felting a Small Animal
Difficulty Level: Beginner – Intermediate
Helpful Experience to Have: Basic Needle Felting
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 2-day in person workshop

Felt a fantastic little fox with a smiling face, a fuzzy fur coat, and beautiful shading details! His head tilts from side to side, his muddy paws are posable, and his bushy tail follows him everywhere he goes!

Skills you will Learn:

• Needle felt this adorable fox sculpture that fits in the palm of your hand!
• Create all the details of the head, like a pointy muzzle, clay nose and eyes, angled ears, and a smiling face
• Make felted eyelids and incorporate clay eyes into the fox’s face and to give him a sly mischievous look
• Shade the details of the head with pastels, and blend it right into the wool for a more realistic look
• Build the bulk of the fox’s body and chest to serve as a solid foundation for all other pieces.
• Needle felt the limbs and insert armatures into them to make them posable, so that the fox can appear to walk or stand up
• Make a bushy tail with a white tip, and use armatures in the tail for additional balance
• Assemble the limbs and tail to the fox body, securing them seamlessly, and needle felt the entire sculpture firm
• Continue to shape the fox’s body and add details
• Create the smooth color transition from the while belly to the red-orange body
• Attach the head to the body so that the little fox can move his head to look different ways
• Give the fox a furry texture for a coat of fur
• Shade the paws, and pose the limbs in a few positions to give different effects

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English

Included in this course

24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Course Outline

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English
Closed Captions: English

Included in this course

• 24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
• High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
• Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
• Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Enroll For Free!

About this Course

Skills Focus: Needle Felting a Small 3D Tiger Brooch
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Helpful Experience to Have: Basic Needle Felting
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a half-day in person workshop

Make this sweet tiny tiger brooch for free with Irina! This simple brooch is a great toe-in-the water project for learning with Irina and you can adapt it to many different animals!

Skills you will Learn:

• Create the shape of the head by needle felting, and blend in bright white so you can see his cute face
• Make the needle felted nose and threaded facial details such as the mouth and eyebrows
• Create the tiny ears and achieve a very fine finish before they are attached to the tiger’s head
• Plan for where to put your eyes, and shade them to add dimension
• Give the tiger his head stripes
• Needle felt the Tiger body to be proportional to the head, and give him a white furry belly
• Needle felt the small tiger tail and apply a few stripes
• Assemble the head, body, and tail to make your little Tiger come to life!
• Detail the tiger’s paws and give the tiger brooch a fine finish

Meet the Instructor:
Irina Egorova

Irina Egorova is a felt artist and teacher, who creates beautiful miniature animal sculptures from colored wool using the dry felting technique, and blends additional methods of art into her fantastic felt creations!

She lives in St. Petersburg, Russia, with her friendly family – her husband (Technical Support), twins Katyusha and Andryushka, and twins Kitty the Cat (Advertising Director) and Juicy the Dog (Quality Content Director).

Irina is a zoologist by education, and uses her background in biology to fulfill her creativity as a full-time artist and teacher. Her favorite characters are insects, but all of her creatures have their own tales and personalities.

All of Irina’s fun felted critters all have one thing in common – irony and good humor, and this is exactly what is so in demand in today’s world and what she really enjoys expressing through her felt art.

Since becoming interested in felting in 2008, Irina has been actively involved in public creative life, taking part in exhibitions (Doll Time, Doll Art, Fashionable Lyalka, Moscow Fair, TeddyMir, Handicraft Formula), festivals (Festival of Felting Masters, Wool) , conferences (NIADA, USA), published articles in magazines (Doll Master, My Moleskine, Mom’s Dad’s Magazine) and more!

Fate gave Irina a happy opportunity to touch the world of puppetry, and she devotes herself to creativity and teaching with great pleasure. Thanks to her humble contribution, more joy and beauty are added to the world through her creatures.

Course Outline

Enroll Today!

About this Course

Skills Focus: Realistic Needle Felting
Difficulty Level: Intermediate – Advanced
Helpful Experience to Have: Needle Felting over an Armature
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 3-day in person workshop

Needle felt a realistic Basset Hound mid-stride in a running pose, complete with floppy skin an flowing ears trailing behind!

Video Lessons: Videos are divided in to easy to digest & easy to reference segments
Audio: Recorded in English

Skills you will Learn:

• Build an armature that supports the scaled proportions of a Basset Hound needle felted sculpture
• Reinforce the running pose with the help of the armature
• Bulk up a core wool structure that supports realistic Basset Hound anatomy
• Needle felt detailed toes, paws, and feet in different positions due to the dog’s stride
• Sculpt the nose and nails from clay, and learn how to attach them seamlessly into the needle felted Basset
• Build the structure of the dog’s head, muzzle, and jowls
• Insert glass eyes and give your basset the classic bloodshot and wrinkle-covered eyes
• Detail the wrinkles and color features of the Basset’s face, incorporating the eyes and nose seamlessly into the needle felted facial details
• Learn how to create windswept Basset ears that appear still without using any hardeners
• Add skin wrinkles to areas of the body that reflect the weight and motion of their adorable floppy skin while running
• Apply a tri-colored coat to the basset hound, and add dappled spots in the coat color as well
• Reinforce the running pose and needle felt the detail layer smooth
• BONUS!
• * Options for male or female basset anatomy

Included in this course

24/7, 365 Instant access to the course streamed directly to your computer, tablet or phone
High quality video instruction divided into short, digestible lessons
Learn at your own pace and refer back to lessons at any time
Complete materials list with links to recommended supplies

Meet the Instructor:

Irina Hughes

I have always been in love with art from a young age. Whether it be sculpting with clay, or drawing or painting, I have always been finding new ways to create art. When I discovered the medium of felting and tried it for myself, I fell even more in love with art than ever before. I really feel as though I found myself in the medium, there is something completely different about felting; there is a persisting warmth in the wool.

Whenever I recreate an animal, I really strive to convey that they all still have the warmth of life in them. I don’t feel like felting is just sculpting with a needle and wool; in a way, I’m molding a living soul. Life is beautiful. I find my biggest inspiration for art in the natural world. Animals all have souls, thoughts, feelings, emotions. I try to create art not only to capture their external beauty, but the beauty within.

I have been felting since 2017, and will continue doing it for as long as possible. I have three beautiful daughters, and two adorable yorkies.