Heidi Higgins

We have a garment construction, which is obviously the sewing.

And then there's a design element, learning about design skills and things like that.

So like next year, for example, I will be teaching the full time PLC course.

And they're the students that are mostly coming from Leaving Cert, wanting to maybe go on to study fashion in college.

And they'll do the course with me full time.

And then I will have a part time group as well.

And I love my part timers because...

the part-timers for me are the people who can't you know commit to a full-time course they want to maybe do a morning with me once a week or something like that they're maybe have kids that are in school and it's great they can do it in the morning and they're home by two o'clock or they've maybe retired and they want to have something you know to like an interest that they've had all their life that

There's no time to pursue it now.

Well, you see, I never did a pillowcase because I never had home economics when I was in school, in where I went to school.

They didn't have it.

So I always did little sort of doll's houses or doll's dresses.

So even when people talk to me about, I want to be a beginner and, you know, I've done, I'm like, we're going to do fashion.

OK, so I always start off with fashion accessories because people expect me to be doing fashion because that's...

the area that I've come from.

So you aim high with them?

Yeah, absolutely.

So like, for example, I had a sewing retreat.

So besides from teaching with Leash and Offaly ETB, I do weekend sewing retreats.

So about once a month I do a sewing retreat in Tipperary, where I'm based.