Cochenille July Specials
Happy 4th of July


Everyone loved free Style sets and clip art, so we decided to keep the same special. Place an order of $45 or more and recieve one of the following items free:

Stitch Painter Elements Clip Art
Get started on your Holiday knitting/crochet - You can quickly bring together a personalized Holiday Stocking by generating a pixel-per-stitch Graphic in our Holiday collection bringing it into Stitch Painter and then placing the clip art from our Elements collection into your master piece.
Promocode: FreeSPELCD Regular: $24.00

Style set 1 or 2
Add more styles to your Garment Designer. Style set 1 has a variety of vests, a funnel neck (good starting point for turtle necks), a full fashion armhole (good for knitting straight angle armholes) and many more styles. The Style set 2 has cool scallopued edges, styles with more points (the more points you have the more creative you can get), capri pants, even an underware template, and many more styles.
Promocode: FreeSS1 Regular: $25.00
Promocode: FreeSS2 Regular $25.00

 

 

Book Sale
Details of Fashion

My Inspiration Files.
Ongoing Specials

 Details of Fashion

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The Details of Fashion is a software program that contains a database of over 250 fashion terms. Each term is defined and illustrated, plus there are historical tidbits and additional remarks. In some cases pronunciation is provided. You can test your knowledge by planing the games and quizzes provided on the CD. There are word scrambles, cross-word puzzles, quizzes and more.

The program runs in 'kiosk' mode. Simply click
on the buttons to move to the various views. You can use database tools to search, sort and locate the term of your choice. Print reports of the styles you are interested in.

 

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Sample of the Form Layout
definition
Sample of the Definition Only Layout
Coats Cross Word Puzzle Sample PDF Puzzle

Computer Requirements:

  • Windows users must be Windows 95 or greater.
  • Mac users should be System 8.6 or greater.
  • Ram: Most new computers will have ample RAM to run the program. We suggest a minimum of 32 megs.

A CD ROM is required as the program will be shipped in this version.

Prices:

SP-SW-0601-I Details of Fashion, Windows $30, Regular $39
SP-SW-0601-M Details of Fashion, Macintosh $30, Regular $39


Ongoing Specials

Grammar of Ornament

Sewer's Worksheets

The Two-Easy Measuring Tape


Other Great Holiday Gift Ideas


My Inspiration Files
SP-010: $35.00, (regular price: $39.00) plus free postal shipping.

Break Through Workspace Clutter

My Inspiration Files is a database tool designed to keep track of your fashion and craft Inspirations by organizing and storing your favorite images and information into one simple-to-use tool.

Have fun building an electronic scrapbook loaded with hundreds of entries of images that inspire you. Capture graphics from the web, your digital camera or scan clippings from magazines.

Quickly sort through years of entries with a keyword search.

Includes a Starter Set of over 150 annotated Fashion or Apparel and Related Websites. Simply click on the link and away you go!
Web List view.

Computer Requirements

Macintosh: OSX
Windows: 98 or greater

Price: $39.00

 

The Grammar of Ornament CD

Our ongoing special is the Grammar of Ornament Clip Art Collection taken from Owen Jone's book called the Grammar of Ornament. Direct Imagination has created two versions of the collection (Professional and Compact). In both versions, you have access to 2100 copyright-free images and you can use a 'click and choose' approach to locate, view and read about the images. royalty-free images.
Windows or Macintosh
Grammar of Ornament Professional: #SP-001: $189.00 Regular Price: $199.00
Grammar of Ornament Compact: #SP-002: $90.00
Regular Price: $99.00

 

Laminated Symbol Charts

There are 3 symbol charts in the set, one for hand knitting, machine knitting and crochet. The Japanese symbol is shown and the operation of how to create the stitch is shown. This is helpful for designing your own patterns as it gives you the most common world standard.

Each card is double-sided.

#SP-003: $4.00 Regular Price: $5.00

Use the special prices when you fill out the order form.


Fabric and Trim Inventory Cards

These are 4-1/4 X 5-1/2 inch cards printed on index weight paper. On each card is a place for your fabric swatch (or trim) and detailed information about the piece. You can record the yardage, width, fiber content, purchase information and storage information amongst other things. What better way to organize your stash. Normally, there are 50 fabric cards per fabric set and 10 trim cards per set.
Fabric: $2.75 per set of 50, or $5.00 for 100. Trim: $1.40 for a set of 10, or $2.50 for 20.

 

#SP-04 Gift Bundle. Includes 50 Fabric Cards and 10 Trim cards, bundled with a plastic case case (similar to the above) for organizing and easy transport. $6.00


Sewer's Worksheets

These worksheets are developed for people who want to make their own patterns, whether by hand or computer. Moving to this level of creativity necessitates a certain amount of organization. These worksheets were initially developed by Susan for her students at Mesa college. The goal was to organize their thoughts prior to sitting in front of the computer. It is amazing how a little up-front thought goes a long way to facilitating success. There are 4 different worksheets and these are printed on Index weight paper. Most sheets are double-sided.
$14.00 DA-0205 The set includes 40 sheets, 10 of each worksheet in a see-through folder.
$15.00 DA-0208 CD/Disk with PDF files so you may print your own. (Windows or Mac)

Pattern Planning Worksheet - First, you need to think through how to approach making the pattern. For this we have the Pattern Planning Worksheet. Keep track of all the details of your patterns including the style details, inspirational clipping, flat drawing with general dimensions and a thought-out analysis of how to approach each pattern piece. By working through this sheet, you will be educating yourself for future projects. You will develop an understanding of how deep armholes are, what you preferred neckline width is, etc.


Garment Construction Worksheet - The interesting thing about creating your own patterns is that there are no sewing instructions! So, a new form of education must emerge. Really, it is not that hard. One begins by looking at the instructions on similar commercial patterns. Yet, it is very helpful to think through the steps of construction, one-by-one, prior to sitting down in front of the sewing machine. This worksheet helps you with the process.


Project Costing Worksheet - This worksheet helps you to determine the costs of a sewn project. It allows you to record the fabrics and trims used (including swatches), quantities and total costs.


Computer Log - Of course, once you get going with computer design, you need to keep track of where you save your various files. This worksheet allows you record this information.

 

#SP-05 Gift Bundle. Includes 10 of each worksheet, printed on index weight paper, plus the plastic envelope sleeve. In addition, you have the CD or diskette of PDF files so you can continue to make further worksheets. $25.00

Two-Easy Measuring Tape

Garment Designer allows you to enter front vs. back and left vs. right measurements. We have found a wonderful tool that makes taking these measurements simple. Measuring made Easy, by Lorraine Henry is a measuring tape and booklet kit. The tape is extra long and measures from the center out, which makes taking front vs. back and left vs. right measurements easy. No more inaccuracies.

Lorraine's booklet explains the process of measuring in clear and concise terms. Between her book and our Designer manual you will enjoy taking the measurements necessary to create a superb fit.

Regular Price: $15

#SP-06 $13.00