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April 2025

Webinar Workshop: From Self-Analysis to Capsule Wardrobe

April 11 - April 25
GoToMeeting CA United States
$75.00

Friday, April 11th, 2025 - 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. PT Saturday, April 12th, 2025 - 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. PT Saturday April 26th, 2025 - 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. PT Web-Wk-01 Click here to purchase. Web-W-01 Do you have clothes you love but don’t wear? Are you tired of making sewn garments or knit/crochet garments that don’t work for you? This online webinar/workshop gives you tools that may help you avoid those disappointments and give you confidence…

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Webinar: Approaches to Copying Ready-to-Wear

April 17 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 pm
GoToMeeting CA United States
$25.00

Approaches to Copying Ready-to-Wear Thursday, April 17th, 2025. 9 a.m. Web-140 Learn to create patterns from your favorite clothing! The art of translating a garment you see to a pattern is a simple learned skill. Whether you start with a photo, a favorite garment, in the dressing room, Pinterest, or other, the general process is similar. Let Susan Lazear show you the steps for the various approaches which involve, analysis, proportions, and details translation. Learn how to build a schematic,…

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Webinar: Let’s Make a Dress

April 30 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
GoToMeeting CA United States
$25.00

Wednesday, April 30th, 9 am PT Web-157 Click here to purchase. Let’s Make a Dress will cover the development of a variety of dress styles ranging from the classic shirtwaist to an A-line dress, to dresses with yokes, and an assortment of summer styles.  Topics include design considerations, fabric choice, appropriate styles in Garment Designer, and the sequence of steps in building sleeved and sleeveless dresses. Darts and fit options will be included as will the use of collars, bands/ruffles,…

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May 2025

Webinar: Pants Workshop

May 6 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Zoom
$25.00

Pants Workshop Tuesday, May 6th, 2025, 9 a.m. PT Web-102B Fitting Points for Pant patterns This webinar focuses on recognizing pant fit issues, and how to solve them with pattern making. Learn how to read the wrinkles or stress folds, and what to do to correct them. After we have viewed the various pattern alterations, we will have Fit Expert Lorraine Henry join us. For those who have taken the Pants, Pants – Measuring and Working Towards a Better Fit,…

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Webinar: Garment Designer: Working with the Extras Menu

May 12 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 pm
Zoom
$25.00

Monday, May 12th, 2025 – 9 a.m. PT Click here to purchase.Designing garments is step one, but accessorizing that garment with the right 'add-ons' is what makes it unique. In this webinar you will learn how to use all the items in the Extras menu to add Collars, Cuffs, Pockets, Edgings, and Additional Shapes to the body of your garment. Learn the lingo of styles, how to plan and place them, and how to build them. Fashionable inspirations will be…

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Webinar: Understanding Fit Preferences

May 19 @ 9:00 am
Zoom
$25.00

Monday, May 19th, 2025, 9 a.m. PT Fit Preference Example Learn techniques and measurements that will help you to understand how you like your clothing to fit. There is magic to the knowledge in that it will guide you to creating clothing (sewn/knit/otherwise) that you are comfortable wearing. No more surprises. Whether you are creating your own patterns with Garment Designer, drafting by hand, or are altering commercial patterns, knowing your fit preferences will help you make wise decisions. Handouts…

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Webinar: Unique Color Design with Stitch Painter

May 28 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Zoom
$25.00

Wednesday, May 28th, 2025, 9 a.m. PT Web – 139 Click here to purchase Stitch Painter is a grid-design tool for any textile person who creates on a grid. Whether you are a knitter, weaver, crocheter, beader, needleworker, or other, you will want to see all the creative things you can do with the software. Susan will demonstrate a variety of techniques such as creating gradients, experimenting with color rotation, FAST design techniques, building sophisticated motifs/patterns. You will see a variety…

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June 2025

Retreat: Fashion, Textiles, and Silk Painting in Lyon and Buxy (Burgundy), France

June 2 @ 5:00 pm - June 12 @ 12:00 pm
Lyon, France Lyon, France + Google Map
$1700

Fashion, Textiles, and Silk Painting Lyon and Buxy (Burgundy), France June 2nd - 12th, 2025 Silk Painting in Burgundy Vintner Home in Buxy Burgundy This year we are combining our days of exploring Lyon with days of textile and garment design and Silk Painting in Burgundy with textile artist Nadja Lancelot and Cochenille's Susan Lazear. Our France retreat will begin in Lyon exploring its deep silk and textile heritage. We will have a variety of appointments and excursions. Of course,…

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Webinar: Let’s Make a Skirt (with Garment Designer)

June 20 @ 9:00 am - 10:30 am
Zoom
$25.00

Friday, June 20, 2025. 9 a.m. PT Web 158 Skirt example Everyone should have a few favorite skirts to wear. Not only do they make us feel a bit more feminine, skirts are cooler to wear in summer heat.  Let’s Make a Skirt will cover the development of skirt styles (and variations) including straight, A-line, gore, flared, tiered, layered, wrap, and more. Learn how to add a yoke, flounce, kick pleat, pockets, and other skirt accoutrements. Also learn which styles…

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Webinar: Smarty Pants

June 30 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Zoom
$25.00

Monday, June 30th, 2 p.m. PT Web-136 Legging Pattern In this Webinar Susan will show you how to think outside of the box while patterning non-traditional pants in Garment Designer. Learn new and creative ways to achieve stylish, unique, and even some funky styles when patterning in Garment Designer with Professor of Fashion and owner of Cochenille, Susan Lazear, as your guide. Leggings without side seams, two-panel pants, and other atypical bottom variations will be discussed. To purchase the webinar,…

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