Needle Felting Basics
– Felting Fundamentals & Theory of Phases –

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.

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About this Course

Discover methods and practice making the needle felted shapes that will serve as the basis for all of Irina Egorova’s needle felting tutorials.

Skills Focus: Needle Felting Basics
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Course Length: This course is equivalent to a 2-hour in person workshop

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

Skills you will Learn:

• Make the Basic Elements that Irina references throughout her many felting tutorials – Pancake, Taco, Dumpling, and Waffle Cone shapes
• Use Irina’s Theory of Phases to understand the parameters of the wool at each stage – by thinking of the wool in the Gaseous, Liquid, and Solid phase.
• Learn how Volume, Hardness, and Density interact in needle felting and understanding how these parameters change depending on which phase the wool needle feted to
• When to perform specific operations depending on which phase the wool is at, in order to achieve success in tasks such as shaping, connecting parts, creating fine details, and polishing the surface
• Principles of connecting different parts together (Module Setup)
• Needle felt a Ball to practice and understand the phases of needle felting

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