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Garment Styler
Overview
Quick Gallery
Garment Styler Quick Feature List
Style Sets
Computer Requirements
Prices and Product Numbers
Compare Garment Designer to Styler
see also
Garment Designer (Styler's big sister)
Garment Styler
Overview:
As many of you know, Garment Styler for Windows or Macintosh
is a garment design program that has been on the market of the past
few years. It
will allow you to easily and visually design non-structured clothing
for sewing, sweater design, loom-shaped garments, stitched canvas
garments and non-structured styles for quilting and other textile
crafts.
In Garment Styler, you design your garments, or flat patterns visually.
Open the program, choose your size (either a standard size or your
own measurements) and begin building a garment around the sloper
of your body. Want a different neckline? Select it and see how it
looks. Want a different body style? Simply choose it and watch the
ease and fit change in front of your eyes. Want to create the garment
for your child? Change the size and the garment is automatically
graded.
The
premise of the Garment Styler is that a user may choose a standard
size to begin the design process. These include Women's 2-50, Men's
32-50, Children's and Infant's sizes. Simply choose the menu, and
slide up or down to the desired size. Or, if one prefers, he/she
may enter one's own personal measurements
(up to 12) and create a pattern that works with the shape of their
body. Once you've chosen a style, you see a sloper of your body,
in green on the screen. The pattern (in black) surrounds the sloper
and with the grid feature tuned on, one can quickly see how much
ease is allowed in any given style. For further information, one
can turn on the garment's dimensions and quickly see a schematic
presentation of the garment. To build a garment, you simply choose
amongst the numerous menu items in each of the sub design groups;
body style, neckline, armhole, shoulder, and sleeve. This mix and
match approach provides hundreds of thousands of combinations for
the user to explore. The program contains Tops and Dresses. If you
require Skirts and Pants, you will want to explore Garment Designer.
Sewers
at this point may print the pattern in 1/4, 1/2 or full scale. Seam
allowances must be added manually. Knitters may add bands or ribs
to the garment and the software will understand to remove them when
charting a pattern piece. Garment Styler allows one to print out
knitting instructions in a knitters chart format. Once you've knit
a garment or two with this type of instruction, you will not want
to go back to 'verbage'. Machine knitters may choose to print the
pattern pieces in full scale as well as half and quarter scale.
These are helpful for those who want to draw on the pattern and
then use a knit leader/radar to shape the garment and apply intarsia,
etc.
Quick Gallery
Garment
Styler Screen (22k)
Garment Styler Screen with grid display
(33 k)
Garment Styler Menus (22k)
Measurement Window (11k)
Band/Facings (22k)
Knitting Instructions (22k)
Printing Patterns in 1/4, 1/2 or
full scale (33k/22k)
Style options in Style Set 1 (33k)
Garment
Styler Quick Feature List
- A
Sloper of one's personal body shape which sits inside the
garment as you design. This may be turned on or off as you work.
- A
library of standard sized slopers ranging from infants
and children to women's and men's.
- The
ability to create a custom library of personal sizes and
shapes.
- The
ability to build a garment visually by choosing from a
variety of style details for garment shapes, necklines, armholes,
sleeve styles, etc.
- The
ability to turn on a grid so that you may see the ease
allowances provided in the garment.
- The
ability to work in metric or inches.
- The
option to create and display bands on your garment and
set these to the width you desire.
- The
option to display linear units for each garment piece so
that you have schematic information for your reference.
- Freeze
Scale option which allows you to freeze the scale of the garment
on screen and use it as the 'master' scale. All subsequent garments
displayed will be shown in porportional scale to the original
garment. Note that it is ideal to start with the largest garment
first, and scale down from there.
- The
ability to create a 'pixel per stitch' graphic which can
be copied through the clipboard to Stitch Painter and other paint
programs.
- The
ability to create shaping instructions in a row by row summary.
- The
ability to input a specific gauge/sett/count in order to create
shaping instructions.
- The
ability to display and print a full scale, half scale or quarter
scale pattern which may be used for sewing and for blocking garment
pieces.
- Over
12,000 style combinations are possible.
Style
Sets :
Style Sets are options plug-ins to Garment Designer which add more
style options to mix and match with exisiting styles. There are
generally 50 new style features based on current fashions and User
requests.
Style Set
1 for Garment Styler or Garment Designer
This
is a style set that contains 50+ new style options
Style
options in Style Set 1 (33k)
SW-0202-I
Style Set 1, Windows $25
SW-0202-M Style Set 1, Mac $25
Style Set 2 is not available for Garment Styler.
Computer
Requirements:
Windows
3.1 or greater with 4 MB RAM or greater.
Macintosh: System 6 or 7, 4 MB RAM or greater.
Note: Garment Styer is a 16-Bit Windows application.
Prices:
SW-0200-I
- Styler/Windows $85.00
SW-0200-M Styler/Mac $85.00
SW-0201-I
Style Set 1, Windows $25
SW-0201-M Style Set 1 Mac $25
CA
residents need to add their local sales tax. Shipping charges may
be seen on our order
page.
Knitting
Instructions in Garment Styler
The
.gif file below is a 'Cheat Sheet' format of the knitting instructions
output by Garment Styler. This format may be new to many of you,
but once you have worked with it, you will never want to go back
to full text instructions.
Hand
Knitters should ignore the first column, as this pertains to machine
knitters and the outer needle numbers. Hand Knitters will follow
the 'inch/cm' column until they get to a part of the garment where
shaping occurs. Then, they will move to the row column.
Machine
Knitters will let the Row column be their guide.
Note:
How the colors change as you approach different parts of the garment
(e.g. armhole, neckline, shoulder shaping, etc.) Decrease and Increase
shaping in all areas may be done by either casting off/on or by
holding/short-rowing. The manual provides a complete description.
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