The Garment Designer Lesson Book is written to show people how to use Garment Designer creatively, plus it explains simple design principles and offers design tips. It consists of 3 projects:

• Creating Simple Vests (4 lessons)
  - Measuring & Creating a Basic Sloper of Your Body
  - Planning & Building a Garment
  - Creating the Full-Size Pattern (To Sew or Knit)
  - Building & Embellishing your Vest
  
• Designing a Garment in Piecework Style
  (3 lessons)
  - Ideation: Planning for Piecework Design
  - Building a Garment & Printing a 1/4 scale Mock-Up Pattern
  - Completing the Garment
  
• Copying Ready-to-Wear (2 lessons)
  - Analyzing & Measuring a RTW Garment
  - Building the Style in Garment Designer
  

#BKCD-0109 $24.00 93 pages(PDF on CD)
released Jan 2009

Adobe Illustrator for Fashion Design
by Susan Lazear
At last. . .a guide and reference book on how to use Adobe Illustrator for fashion design! If you want to learn how to use Adobe Illustrator to develop or advance your fashion drawing skills, communicate your ideas to employers, or simply have fun drawing clothing and textile designs, then you will love this book and its approach to teaching in simple-to-follow steps.

Adobe Illustrator for Fashion Design:

• Provides you with an easy and visual approach to the mechanics of using Adobe Illustrator in a manner that is simple to learn.
• Walks you through a tour of Illustrator's tools and functions that pertain to fashion design.
• Guides you step-by-step through a series of exercises and provides illustrations of works-in-progress as well as finished examples.
• Teachesyou the basics of creating fashion flats, illustrations, textile designs, and merchandise presentations.
• Includes a variety of tips and suggestions for using Illustrator in fashion design.
• Features fashion drawings created by college students at San Diego Mesa College
• DVD includes: Files for various design exercises, Sample images and Student portfolios of artwork after working with Adobe Illustrator for only one semester.
• Autographed copies available please type SIGNSUSAN in the promo Code field on the order form.

BKCD-0114 $24.00

Asymmetrical Layered
An average fit, round-neck asymmetrical layered jacket with multiple lengths and flared back. A square armhole is featured and accented through the use of flat piping.

Empire
A long, semi-fitted jacket with body-dart fit. The style features an empire waistline and set-in sleeves. A peter pan style collar is added for interest. The front skirt of the jacket may be made squared off or curved. Bias strip facings are used to finish the hem and the neckline/collar.

Flange
A long, oversized, straight-cut jacket that features a dolman armhole/sleeve and a shoulder flange that extends over the top of the sleeve at the shoulder. The pleat formed by the flange is secured in place by top stitching it in place at the waist-level. Fabric splicing occurs at the lower body of the jacket as well as on the sleeve. A bias/knit trim finishes the neckline.

Scarf Collar
A semi-fitted asymmetrical jacket with a V-neckline accented with a scarf-like fabric collar. Slightly lowered set-in sleeves

Saddle Yoke
A short, semi-fitted jacket that features a saddle shoulder sleeve which extends into a yoke. A box pleat extends from the yoke at center back. A round neckline is used and the center front of the jacket meets without overlap. An optional knit trim is used where the yoke meets the body of the jacket.

Knit-Splice-Trim
A short, fitted, contoured sweater jacket with round neck, and set-in sleeves. In my sample the sleeves of the jacket are pieced with velvet and lace inserts. In Chanel style, the jacket fronts are trimmed with coordinating stretch velvet in the neckline, center front and hem. The fronts meet at the center.

This CD contains a PDF book that is the result of online lessons on the use of Stitch Painter on Compuserve. Susan Lazear wrote these lessons with two goals in mind. The first was to teach people how to use Stitch Painter in a 'project' oriented approach. The second goal was to teach some basic design skills as well (e.g. how to develop and build motif and patterns). The book is written in a step-by-step format and a the motifs and other files used in the lessons are included on the CD. (please specify Windows or Mac).
There are 4 extended lessons in the book: Motif Development, Simple Repeat Design, More Repeat Design, Color. - You will be able to print the PDF book or copy it to your computer for easier access.

#BKCD-0112 $24.00 (Files used in the book are included on the CD)

Fun and Fashionable Collars

This booklet by Susan Lazear covers the basics of Collar Design.

In the book, Susan explains the logic of collar design, shape and fit. She shows you how to draft the basic collars (flat, standing and roll) and various style variations of these. Learn collar terminology and style names as well as how to draft the numerous standard styles. Discussion in terms of flat pattern design and design with Garment Styler/Designer is given.

Now available electronically, as a PDF file for you to Print or copy the file to your computer for easier access.

This book is a 'must' if you tend to forget where you put things, or if you simply want to get more organized in your 'computer life'. It has various log sheets and contains:

• Computer Peripheral Log
• Software and Installation Log
• Service and Maintenance Log
• Computer File Log
• Favorite Places On-line Log
• Contacts Log
• Now available electronically, as a PDF file for you to print or copy the file to your computer for easier access.