Sunday, July 28, 2013

Blowing my own trumpet!

I have never been very good at 'blowing my own trumpet' but today I feel I have good cause to do so. Two months ago I put forward an idea to run a course on Surface Pattern Design at a technical college in Turin. I was quite cheeky and proposed a trial workshop saying that the courses available were a bit out of date and that maybe some new subjects and input were needed. My trail lesson went exceedingly well so here I am planning my set of 10 workshops (to be run in October) and hoping that they will indeed prove to be 'exciting and new'. I am kind of proud of myself as I created this opportunity out of nothing, I just jumped in where I saw a gap and it worked out fine. I am also aware that this is probably the only Surface Pattern Course that you will find in Turin (very slight panic)!


For my trail lesson I had an idea to create some pattern cards to help the students understand how the repeat tile works, and even though I say it myself they went down really well. There you go I'm blowing my own trumpet again... it's never to late to learn!

6 comments:

  1. Keep blowing, you just don't know where it will get you. A very big pat on the back, hope you are not wilting too much in the heat. xxxx

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  2. Well done Dawn. That's fantastic news! And for being brave and having it pay off. Keep blowing as flowerlady said!

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  3. Well done. keep at it. you will win. Enjoy the end reward. well deserved. xxx

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  4. Very happy for you, Dawn. Well done.

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