{"id":11382,"date":"2024-07-24T09:30:22","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T23:30:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=11382"},"modified":"2024-07-24T09:36:48","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T23:36:48","slug":"my-formal-qualifications","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2024\/07\/24\/my-formal-qualifications\/","title":{"rendered":"My formal qualifications"},"content":{"rendered":"
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studying historical needlework samples<\/p><\/div>\n

For some people, qualifications are very important. So as a needlework teacher and author of needlework books, what are my formal qualifications?<\/p>\n

My training is in design. I have a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication, and it helped me learn to think, problem solve and therefore be creative. While I didn\u2019t much enjoy my time at university (I felt like a fish out of water), what I learned there has been absolutely invaluable to me. My degree included such things as typography, problem solving, the history of design, illustration and photography. The knowledge and skills I gained shape how I present the information in my books. After university, working for a non-fiction publisher, which presented information often in a step-by-step manner, instilled in me the importance of communicating clearly in both written and illustrated formats.<\/p>\n

I do not have formal embroidery training and there\u2019s a really good reason for that: no school teaches what I want to learn! I want to focus on lesser known forms of embroidery that are not taught formally, and often do not have a written record. I want to create that written record, and therefore the best place for me to learn is from historical items – primary historical sources. By studying a wide range of historical examples, I am able to understand my chosen style, and distill it down to clearly communicate it through word and image, and in-person teaching.<\/p>\n

Some of my friends who are doing or have done PhDs have suggested to me that I could do further university training. I can’t really see any point in writing a masters or PhD thesis for the sake of gaining a qualification. My informal research, which I do for every book I write, is far more useful to me and to the audience for which I write my books. If I could see benefit from doing further formal education, I would, but so far, I have not found the circumstances where that would make sense.<\/p>\n

And so, I will continue to forge my own path; doing my own thing, and doing it as well as I can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

studying historical needlework samples<\/p>\n

For some people, qualifications are very important. So as a needlework teacher and author of needlework books, what are my formal qualifications?<\/p>\n

My training is in design. I have a Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication, and it helped me learn to think, problem solve and therefore be creative. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-teaching-embroidery","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11382"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11386,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11382\/revisions\/11386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}