Needle Felting a Hamster
– Make a Hungry Hamster with a Wide Open Mouth and Grabby Clay Paws –

with Irina Egorova

Course Outline

Class Chat

Class Chat: Needle Felting a Hamster
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Getting Started: Info & Resources

Hamster Overview
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Tools and Supplies
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A Note from Irina
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Supplies – Shop Links and List Download
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Hamster Diagrams
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Hamster Reference Photos
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Guidance for Simple Eyes
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Create the Elements of the Hamster’s Head with an Open Mouth

Hamster Head Overview
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Core & Mouth
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Mouth Edge
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Form the Open Mouth
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Hamster Brain
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Pointed Nose
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Puffy Cheeks
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Make the Ears
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Shape the Ears
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Assemble the Hamster’s Head

Assemble the Hamster Head
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Attach the Nose
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Attach the Cheeks
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Attach the Ears
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Detail the Hamster Head

Eye Sockets
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Needle Felt the Head Firm
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Shaping with Scissors
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Nose Details
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Tinting with Pastels
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Glue In the Eyes
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Build the Elements of the Hamster Body

Hamster Body Overview
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Core Wool Body
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Lower Limbs
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Upper Limbs
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Tiny Hamster Tail
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Assemble, Shape and Texture the Hamster

Join the Head to the Body
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Symmetry, Posture, and Cover with Colored Wool
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Attach the Limbs and the Tail
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Color Shading
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Final Shaping and Needle Felt Firm
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Make the Hamster Fur with a Reverse Needle
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Making the Clay Elements

Clay Teeth
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Clay Front Paws
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Clay Feet
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Attach the Clay Elements

Attach Teeth and Finish the Mouth
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Attach Hands and Feet
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Get Your Certificate!

Get Your Certificate! Needle Felting a Hamster
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Needle Felt Hamster with Irina Egorova

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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

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.