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February 2025
Webinar: All About Knit Fabrics: Design and Use
All About Knit Fabrics: Design and Use. *** NEW Wednesday, February 5th, 2025. 2 p.m. PT 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 for the knit vs. woven garment. Learn how to…
Find out more »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
Find out more »Webinar: Let’s Make a Jacket (with Garment Designer)
Tuesday February 11, 2025, 10 a.m. PT Click here to go to our store to purchase. Let’s Make a Jacket will feature the development of a variety of Jackets 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 ‘jacket’ pattern parts such as a collar, front extensions, facings, sleeve cuff treatment, and…
Find out more »Webinar: Let’s Make Knitwear (Hand or Machine)
Let’s Make Knitwear (Hand or Machine) Wednesday, February 19th, 2 p.m. PT Web-155 Knitwear Design If you want to create your own patterns with Garment Designer this webinar will teach you various approaches. Learn to work from an existing garment with or without modifications, and how to translate ready-to-wear knits to your own. Also learn how to look at a non-knit garment, decide if it is appropriate to transfer to a knit pattern, and then how to do that. You…
Find out more »San Marcos Garment Designer Workshop, February 22-23, 2025
Saturday/Sunday, February 22nd, 23rd, 2025. 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Location: San Marcos, California Susan Lazear's Home - maximum of 7 people $150.00 Garment Designer Winter Workshop We are pleased to offer our Winter Workshop this upcoming year. Want to learn more about your software? Maybe escape the snow while you are at it? Whether you are new to the program, need a brush-up, or want to stretch what you already know, you are bound to learn. The theme of…
Find out more »Webinar: Let’s Make a Top
Let’s Make a Top Monday, February 24, 2025, 10 a.m. PT Web-156 To register, click here. Let’s Make a Top will walk you through the process of creating various styles of tops with Garment Designer. It will cover design considerations, fabric choice, appropriate styles in Garment Designer, the sequence of steps in building a top. A variety of styles, neckline, armhole/sleeve and hem treatments will be shown. Design and construction tips will be included as well as inspirational ideas. The…
Find out more »Sewing and Stitchery Expo, Puyallup, WA. Feb. 29th – March 3rd 2024
Cochenille will be vending and Susan will be teaching at the Sewing and Stitchery Expo in late Feb/ early March. Susan Lazear is Teaching at Sew Expo Download a flyer to see what classes are being taught by clicking here. Susan is teaching a variety of classes including the following: 1 Needle Classes (45 minutes) 1023 - Creative Facing Alternatives 1024 - Knit Super Power: Stretch Factors for Knits: How These Impact Fit and Design 1025 - A Dozen Things…
Find out more »March 2025
Webinar: Top Plus Bottom Mode in Garment Designer
Top Plus Bottom Mode in Garment Designer Thursday, March 6th, 2025 10 am PT Web-142 https://shop.cochenille.com/collections/webinars-online/products/webinar-working-with-top-bottom-mode-in-garment-designer 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. No…
Find out more »Webinar: Creative and Practical Pieced Design
Wednesday, March 12th, 2025, 2 p.m. PT Pieced Top made with pieces of Japanese vintage textiles If you follow fashion, you will see that ‘pieced garments’ are all the rage at present. This technique is no longer the domain of quilters, it has moved to the runway in a big way. Pieced garments are not only fun to make, they are also a great way to explore your creativity, practice sustainability by using up what you have, and expand your…
Find out more »Webinar: Fitting Points in Garment Designer
Fitting Points with Garment Designer Friday, March 28th, 2025, 9 a.m. PT Web-146 This webinar will take you on a tour of the various ways you can achieve 'fit' in Garment Designer. We will explore the use of Darts (bodice and bottoms), Princess Lines, Contoured Styles, Dart Equivalents, and the use of Ease. In addition we will address some fitting issues such as rounded back, forward shoulders, non-symmetrical bodies, and approaches to dealing with them. Click here to purchase. If…
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