Garment Designer Nuno Felt Retreat Garment Designer Nuno Felt Retreat will be Cochenille's annual fall design workshop. The workshop involves designing a pattern in Garment Designer with the specific purpose of adding engineered Nuno felt sections to the end result. We are pleased to have as our guest, Italian Fashion Designer, Lisbeth Wahl. She will join us to […]
We are pleased to announce our Spring workshop. Thank you to our audience for providing feedback! This year our workshop will take place April 21st to 23rd. This Garment Designer workshop will focus on projects related to creating coordinate garments i.e. designing pieces that can be worn together. We will also take a look […]
We are trying something new this year; combining Fashion and Food into one retreat. The dates will be from June 14th (arrival day with dinner in evening), through June 22nd (depart on June 23rd). Most details of the agenda have been decided and will include cooking classes, visits to food and wine businesses, fashion visits to Venice, museums, […]
Annual New Mexico Garment Designer Workshop September 22-24th, 2017 Cimarron, New Mexico Book by August 15th for the Early Bird Special of $250! We are continuing our tradition of truly retreating in an amazing location and spending focus time with Garment Designer. So, we return to Cimarron, New Mexico and the 100-year old inn we […]
Lecture & Workshop: Indigo & Shibori Dyeing techniques Lecture & Workshop: Indigo & Shibori Dyeing techniques hosted by The Machine Knitters Guild of the San Francisco Bay Area and Cochenille Design Studio owner and designer, Susan Lazear. She will be sharing the inspiration that she found during her travels in Japan. In the morning there will be a […]
American Sewing Guild Inland Empire General Meeting With Susan Lazear American Sewing Guild Inland Empire is hosting a general meeting with Susan Lazear as their guest. Susan, the owner and creator of Cochenille Design Studio, is also an avid textile artist, enthusiast and historian and will be giving a tour of fabrics including their history and […]
CANCELED Thank you for your interest. Please email us at info@cochenille.com to be put on our email list for when we reschedule this workshop!
2018 Italy Fashion and Food Retreat As of May 2015, we still have room in this retreat! Contact us for more info! We are combining Fashion and Food for our 2018 Italy retreat. The dates will be from June 14th 2018 (arrival day with dinner in evening), through the morning June 23rd. It will be a […]
2018 Fall Garment Designer Workshop Working With Knits San Marcos, CA This workshop has been postponed until Spring 2019, the date is TBD. If you would like to be put on our "interested" list, please contact info@cochenille.com. The goal of our Garment Designer Fall retreat this year will focus on working with the design of […]
Stitches West 2019 in Santa Clara is one of the year must-go conventions. Last year we had such a great time that Cochenille will be returning to vend and host classes! Cochenille will be vending at Stitches West 2019 in Santa Clara, CA February 21-24th, Booth# 507. We will have show special pricing on our products and […]