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March 2025
Designalong: Shawl Collar, March 11, 25, and April 22nd, 2025
Shawl Collar Design Designalong with or without Garment Designer Explore the Shawl Collar and the Design Process For sewers, knitters, crocheters $75.00 DA-03 Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 9 a.m. PT Tuesday, March 125, 2025, 9 a.m. PT Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 9 a.m. PT Attend live or watch the recordings Welcome to the third in a series of Designalongs with Cochenille. This Designalong features the creation of a Shawl Collar style. Shawl Collars are unique in that the…
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Webinar: Unique Color Design with Stitch Painter
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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Retreat: Fashion, Textiles, and Silk Painting in Lyon and Buxy (Burgundy), France
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,…
Find out more »July 2025
Webinar: The How and Why of Prototyping Your Ideas
Tuesday, July 8th, 2025 10 a.m. PT Web-154 Prototyping in 1/4 scale Garment Designer provides you with a creative tool to advance your design. In this webinar we want to share with you the various approaches you can take to test out your ideas. Are my proportions, right? How do I sew this garment? How can I add more interest to the piece? Is this pattern doable? These are all questions we ask ourselves as we push forward with our…
Find out more »Webinar: Knitting 1,2,3. Step-by-Step with Garment Designer
Knitting 1,2,3 Step by Step Thursday, July 24th, 2025, 11 a.m. Web-135 Design your own knitwear or crochet projects! If you are a knitter (or if you crochet), you will want to use Garment Designer to its fullest. In this webinar Susan will show you how to use Garment Designer to design a knit project. This webinar will help you master the Shaping Instructions, generate shaping charts for regular, top-down, bottom-up, sideways and diagonal knitting. You…
Find out more »Webinar: How to Measure Garments and Use the Knowledge
Tuesday, July 29th, 2025. 2 p.m. PT Web-167 Measuring Chest Width Did you know you can remove a lot of guesswork with fitting and pattern making if you understand where you are heading. So, why not let your existing clothing tell you the things you need to know. There are key measurements that provide great insight. In this webinar, Susan will demonstrate ‘live’ how to measure key areas of tops (sleeved and sleeveless), a skirt, and pants. Various techniques and…
Find out more »August 2025
Webinar: Let’s Make a Blouse
Webinar: Let's Make a Blouse Thursday, August 7th, 2025. 9 a.m. PT Web 150 Click here to purchase Let’s Make a Blouse will feature the development of a woven fabric blouse. It will cover design considerations, fabric choice, appropriate styles in Garment Designer, the sequence of steps in building the bodice and sleeve pattern and the option of darts. You will also learn how to add the additional ‘blouse’ pattern parts such as a collar, front extension, facings, sleeve cuff…
Find out more »Webinar: Walking Tour of Garment Designer
Walking Tour of Garment Designer Wednesday, August 20th, 2025 10 am. PT Web-128 Click here to register Take a tour of Garment Designer with Susan Lazear as your tour guide! Susan will show you Garment Designer’s main attractions as well as help you discover destinations you may not have known existed. This tour will help seasoned travelers and new tourists explore Cochenille’s pattern making software. So join us as we walk through functions and menus of Garment Designer and share…
Find out more »New Mexico Garment Designer Workshop/Retreat
August 21st - 25th, 2025 Cimarron, New Mexico Students at work! The Casa, site of your 2025 Design Retreat. We are continuing our tradition of truly retreating in an amazing location and spending focused time with Garment Designer. So, we return to Cimarron, New Mexico and the 100-year-old inn we have grown to love. Skill Level: All you really need is computer comfort and some sewing experience. It is advisable to get the software in advance and have experimented with…
Find out more »Webinar: Designing Accessories and More… with Garment Designer
Designing Accessories and More... with Garment Designer Thursday, August 28th, 2025. 9 a.m. Web-169 Click here to register Designing a Beret hat with Garment Designer Everyone loves to wear knits. They are easy to work with, quick to sew, and comfortable to wear. This webinar will focus on a discussion of the most popular knit fabrics and the characteristics of each. You will learn how to choose a knit for a specific end use and how to adjust a pattern…
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