Thank you for your interest in teaching my designs!  My teaching policies are pretty straightforward:

• Please ask me!  I like to know who is teaching my designs and which shop.  As long as you're not in my surrounding area (I also teach my designs), I won't have a problem with it.

• I ask that you don't resell my patterns- giving them to your students is fine, but please don't print extras and sell them.  Referring interested clients (those not attending your classes) to my shop would be awesome.

• I also ask that you don't hand my tutorials out to customers- students in your classes are, of course, an exception.  I try to minimize the number distributed for obvious reasons.  This is my livelihood.  :)

• I ask that you buy the original pattern from my shop, but I don't charge a teaching fee.  

• If you publish class schedules, I'm happy to advertise your shop as teaching my designs.  Just link me to your site, page or schedules and I'm happy to help.  I have a page on facebook:  www. facebook.com/artisan.originals. 

• All of my tutorials, even my older ones, have a footer with my website information on them.  I request that you don't cut the footers off the pages (yes, some people actually do that!), and also please leave the copyright statement on the last page of the tutorials.  It's always important for students to know that tutorials aren't always meant to be shared and that copying and distributing them without permission is copyright infringement.  It's something people can innocently do without knowing otherwise.

• I'd also love a little mention (Designed by Valorie Clifton) if you're advertising a class based on one of my designs.

• That's pretty much it, other than:  I retain my copyrights to my tutorials, and granting permission to teach them doesn't transfer any copyrights or ownership to the stores that teach my designs, nor to any teachers who teach them.  I also reserve the right to revoke teaching permission if any problems arise (this is extremely rare- it's happened once).  

• Permission to teach does not mean you can freely distribute or share my tutorials.  My designs are my income- please respect my copyrights to my written work, photos and diagrams.
  

If the above policies are agreeable, I'm happy to have your shop teach my designs.