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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 Workshop: From Self-Analysis to Capsule Wardrobe
Friday, April 11th, 2025 - 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. PT Saturday, April 12th, 2025 - 9 a.m. - 11 a.m. PT Saturday April 25th, 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…
Find out more »Webinar: Approaches to Copying Ready-to-Wear
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,…
Find out more »Webinar: Let’s Make a Dress
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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Webinar: Pants Workshop
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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