{"id":660,"date":"2016-08-11T19:57:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T18:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tuesdayfortnite.co.uk\/?p=660"},"modified":"2016-08-11T19:57:07","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T18:57:07","slug":"reflecting-on-improvement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tuesdayfortnite.co.uk\/?p=660","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"

As regular readers to this blog may have worked out I have a touch of a type A personality – and as I get older it gets more obvious.\u00a0 In my crafting life I constantly strive to improve, searching out different ways of doing things, modifying materials, patterns and techniques to get the result I want.<\/p>\n

But it’s not just crafting – Mr TuesdayFortnite will happily tell you of the time there were 32 different swatches of ‘grey’ on the front room wall as I took two weeks to decide exactly *which* grey to paint the whole room.\u00a0 I recently had to change channels when a make-over show hung pictures on the wall *crooked*! (shudder).<\/p>\n

This perfectionism extends to my teaching as well – whether I’m teaching dance (my professional training), MS Word to work colleagues or my crafting classes.\u00a0 After every teaching session, designing a pattern, rearranging a room (or my stash!)…. I sit and reflect and review on what went well, what can be improved and how I can be better.\"action-reflection<\/a><\/p>\n

We did the Crochet Beginners class on Saturday last week, and it went really well – with everyone producing lovely work and starting on their individual crochet adventures.<\/p>\n

Sometimes the best ideas start with ‘why?’ and sitting in the car on the way home I had one of those moments – I wrote the course way back in 2011 taking notes from other crochet teachers at the time on how to structure a class.\u00a0 Being new at teaching crochet I accepted the wisdom of my ‘elders and betters’ on the circuit – and didn’t question it.\u00a0 But why?\"reflective<\/a><\/p>\n

Here, 5 years on, I have the knowledge and the confidence to question that structure – and I’ve broken down what we do on the classes and am starting again from scratch – no assumptions on ‘that’s how it’s done’ or taking ‘because that’s how it is’ as an answer.\u00a0 Exciting times!<\/p>\n

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