Heidi Higgins

Yes.

So I suppose about three years ago, I decided that I wanted to teach sewing.

Well, it's been something that I wanted to for a while and pass on the skills that I have.

So I contacted my local ETB, Leishan Offaly ETB, and I just said to them, I'm looking to do some sewing classes.

If you ever have interest in that area, let me know.

I'd be interested.

So they called me back straight away and I started teaching some sewing classes with them, with the community education team.

And it's just been brilliant and it kind of grew legs and grew legs.

So there was just more demand and we brought on level three sewing classes, QQI level three sewing classes.

And now we're teaching, I'm teaching the level five QQI fashion design award, which is just brilliant.

So you're teaching fashion and design and also you are teaching beginners.

aren't you?

Oh, absolutely.

Absolutely.

So it's all different types.

So we have total beginners come into me or people who have a little bit of skills come into me.

There's loads of different options there because I always say that to people when they see the kind of fashion design world, they automatically think, well, it has to be, you know, I'm very serious about going maybe for a career in that area.

That's not necessarily the point.

We have total beginner classes right up and there's lots of different options within the fashion design as well.

We have pattern drafting, so creating patterns from scratch.