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February 2024
Webinar Workshop: Pattern Pizazz – Workshop, Creative Pattern Making Skills (hand)
Pattern Pizazz – Workshop. Creative Pattern Making Skills (Hand) Webinar Workshop Saturday, February 24th, 2024 9 - 11:30 am PT. 2.5 hours WW-02 To sign up click here. Even though we like to use computer pattern drafting, it is always a good idea to know some basics of hand-drafting. In this workshop you will learn several hand pattern making techniques that can help you transform one garment style into another. Working with 1/4-scale basic patterns, students will learn how to…
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Webinar: Working with Top/Bottom Mode in Garment Designer
Thursday, March 14th, 2024, 10 a.m. PT Garment Designer allows you to design Tops and Bottoms in the same file. This allows you to design with proper proportions between jackets and skirts, pants and tops, etc. It also lets you build two-piece outfits such as empire-waist styles, jackets and skirts, pants/tops, and more. Learn how using this mode can help you design garments you never thought possible in the program. If you sign up, please check your SPAM folder for the webinar…
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Digital Fabric Design Retreat in Lyon and Valsonne, France, 2024
Digital Fabric Design Retreat in Lyon and Valsonne, France, 2024 June 5th - 15, 2024 Lyon and Valsonne, France Digital Printing in Valsonne, France This year marks our third collaboration with Label Graine, a textile firm outside of Lyon, France. This company digitally prints fabrics and has recently redesigned a portion of their space to suit workshops for designers, students, or others who want to involve digital printing in their creative life. Our retreat will combine four days exploring Lyon with…
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Convergence 2024 Conference July 11-17, 2024
Cochenille Design Studio and Susan Lazear will be at Convergence this coming summer in Wichita, Kansas. We will have a booth during the vending days, and Susan is actively teaching lectures, seminars, and workshops. Susan is teaching at Convergence. Go here to see the full slate of classes. Here are video links for a preview discussion of Susan's Classes. Several instructors are featured in each video, so see the time marker to quickly get to Susan's…
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Designalong: Three Part Design Workshop (online) Square Armhole Vest/Jacket
Square Armhole Vest/Jacket Project: Designalong with or without Garment Designer Mixed Fabric/Media Project For sewers, knitters, crocheters $75.00 DA-01 Wednesday, August 28th, 3:30 p.m. PT Wednesday, Sept. 4th, 5 p.m. PT Saturday, October 5th, 9 a.m. PT Attend live or watch the recordings Welcome to the first in a series of Designalongs with Cochenille. Want to push your creative skills to the next level? Why not step into a mixed media project by combining fabrics or fabrics with yarn? A…
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Webinar Workshop: Around the Block: Creative Hand Pattern Making Techniques
Around the Block: Creative Hand Pattern Making Techniques Saturday, Sept. 7th, 2024 9 - 11:30 am PT. 2.5 hours WW-03 Learn some quick Pattern Making by hand skills. Exploring your way around a basic bodice, you will learn simple yet creative pattern making skills that will allow you to add interest to a garment. Step by Step Pattern Making Students will work with quarter-scale basic patterns and utilize several techniques to enhance that part of a garment. We will begin…
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Designalong: Asian-Style Jacket
Asian Style Jacket: (a two-seam jacket) Designalong with or without Garment Designer Unique Jacket Pattern Design For sewers, knitters, crocheters $75.00 DA-02 Wednesday, October 30th, 2024. 9 a.m. PT Wednesday, November 6th, 2024 9 a.m. PT Wednesday, December 4th, 2024. 9 a.m. PT or, tbd with group Attend live or watch the recordings Cochenille Design Studio Designalong Welcome to the second in a series of Designalongs with Cochenille. This Designalong features the creation of a Jacket Pattern that is innovative…
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Webinar: LagenLook – Layered Fashions: Design and Drafting
Monday, Nov. 4th, 2024. 9 a.m. Lagenlook fashion has gained popularity worldwide for its versatility, comfort, and practicality. For this webinar we will be exploring the Lagenlook and its use of unique styling and layering. This webinar will go over which style elements work best, and which are ideal for your body shape. Susan will demonstrate pattern building in Garment Designer, but one doesn’t need to own the software to gain knowledge. The asymmetric elements, varying hemlines and unique styles…
Find out more »Webinar:Designing Fabrics for Digital Printing
Designing Fabrics for Digital Printing Monday, November 18th, 2024 9 am PT Web-125 https://shop.cochenille.com/collections/webinars-online/products/webinar-designing-fabrics-for-digital-printing In this webinar, Susan will demonstrate and discuss the steps of creating your own fabric designs using paint or similar software programs. She will then show you the steps of uploading a design to Spoonflower (a company in North Carolina) that digitally prints fabric. There are a variety of software programs you can use including from Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Illustrator, Gimp, and various apps for your…
Find out more »February 2025
Toast and Boast #26
Cochenille Users Please join us for Toast and Boast #26. Users of Garment Designer and Stitch Painter share their work. Topic: Toast and Boast #26 Invitation Time: Feb 7, 2025 01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84165748442?pwd=et2eZjQwixtkoVCjjlDfCU67KtOa7I.1 Meeting ID: 841 6574 8442 Passcode: 670758 --- One tap mobile +16694449171,,84165748442#,,,,*670758# US +16699006833,,84165748442#,,,,*670758# US (San Jose) Meeting ID: 841 6574 8442 Passcode: 670758 Find your local number: https://us06web.zoom.us/u/kpQnT1XxJ
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