Course Outline

About this Course

Skills Focus: Achieve intricate designs and patterning with exclusive “glued felt” methodology developed by Irina. Needle felt a cute body with loads of personality.
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Helpful Experience to Have: Basic Needle Felting, Eye for Detail
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 2-day in person workshop

Learn to create exceptional design detail with Irina’s exclusive “glued felt” method. PLUS needle felt a fun butterfly body for a one of a kind needle felted butterfly brimming with personality.

**PEREQUISITE = GLUED FELT BASICS. Students must first enroll in Glued Felt Basics to take this course. The foundations of this innovative process are taught in that course.

BONUS! Learn to create a display stand for your butterfly
BONUS! Free enrollment in Simple Eyes Course with Irina

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

Skills you will Learn:

• How to analyze color from a picture and translate into fiber
• How to emulate intricate butterfly wings in fiber
• How to create a two-sided wing with different patterns on each side
• How to needle felt the head and body
• How to attach the wings and butterfly body
• How to create a “stand” to display your butterfly

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

About this Course

Skills Focus: Creating a colorful, flexible and durable felt fabric that can be used for many applications such as simple wings, flowers, leaves, ears, etc
Difficulty Level: Specialty Skills – Beginner
Helpful Experience to Have: Basic Fiber Handling
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 3 hour in-person workshop

**This course is a PREREQUISITE for Irina’s courses that require a grasp of this technique such as any of her butterfly wings and plant courses.

Glued Felt is a course that will enable you to create a flexible wool fabric that is thin, durable and holds its shape. You can use this technique immediately to create simple in wings for insects and animals, tiny ears in a variety of shapes and thicknesses, flowers, leaves, small clothes and more!

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

Skills you will Learn:

• How to create a simple one color fabric that is delicate, thin, durable and holds its shape
• How to create soft fabrics that are multi-colored and have color transitions
• How to incorporate synthetic fibers for added effects
• How to make a spotted pattern
• Common mistakes and how to avoid them for great results
• How to create stiff, multi-layered fabrics
• How to incorporate veins with a demonstration of an autumn Maple leaf.

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.