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August 2020
Webinar: Moving from Garment Designer to Stitch Painter. **Updated
Tuesday, 8/11/20 – 5 pm PT This webinar will show you how to create styles in Garment Designer and move them into Stitch Painter for stitch design work. This would be appropriate for knitting, crochet, needlework, and even space planning for sewn garments. Various techniques will be covered including planning repeat designs, engineered design, working with textures (e.g. cable work), and more. Online order information: Item #: Web-115 – Moving from Garment Designer to Stitch Painter BUY WEBINAR Price: $25.00
Find out more »Webinar: Garment Designer: Knitting 1,2,3 Step by Step
Saturday, 8/22/20 – 1 pm PT Web-135 Let’s make knit patterns in Garment Designer! In this webinar Susan will show you how to use Garment Designer to design a knit project. This webinar will help you master the Shaping Instructions, generate shaping charts for regular, top-down, bottom-up, sideways and diagonal knitting. You will learn tips and tweaks to make your next knitting project a breeze. Online order information: Item #: Web-135 – Knit 123 BUY WEBINAR Price: $25.00
Find out more »Webinar: Jazzing it Up! Creative Use of Garment Details **NEW
Tues, 8/25/20 – 5 pm. PT Web-144 Learn how to take a basic garment and turn it into something unique through the use of creative pockets, collars, and other additions to a garment. This webinar will inspire you with images of fashionable ideas that can easily be created with Garment Designer. Take an existing pattern and jazz it up! There will be lots of demonstration of pattern work in the software to help you advance your skills. Online order information:…
Find out more »Webinar: Hmm.. Why Did That Happen? (in Garment Designer) **New
Saturday, 8/29/20 – 1 pm PT Web-145 Garment Designer is easy to use and powerful. Yet, strange things can occasionally happen as you work. Where did my sleeve go? Why is the left side different than the right, etc. Rest assured, there is a logical reason why. So, if you are not a manual reader, or simply want to cut to the chase, let us show you the most common mistakes people make and explain the why. Having this knowledge…
Find out more »September 2020
Stitches At Home Class
Don’t we all want to make our garments uniquely ours? That’s the essence of design, and you don’t have to have super powers to do it. You just need to learn basic skills and insights that allow you to see what it is that designers do. It’s a process that you can learn. Susan will walk you through a series of exercises that allow you to enhance the design awareness and skills that you already have (whether you realize it…
Find out more »Webinar: Pants, Pants – Measuring and Working Towards a Better Fit
Pant Workshop (Part A). Pants, Pants – Measuring and Working Towards a Better Fit Thursday, 9/10/20 5 pm PT Web-102A If fitting pants is your challenge, this webinar will help you learn how to measure your body, and your favorite pants to assist you in creating a pattern, muslin, and ultimately, pants that fit. Analyze your figure and your fit-challenges to define the problems you face. Then, learn how to use the right sequence of steps in Garment Designer to…
Find out more »Webinar: I’ve Opened the Box, Now What. Intro to Garment Designer
I’ve Opened the Box, Now What? Intro to Garment Designer **Updated Thursday, 9/17/20 4 pm PT Web-104 This webinar is for people who are basically just starting, or who need a refresher on how to approach creating garment patterns with Garment Designer. Two basic approaches will be given: using your body measurements and measuring a favorite garment. It’s time to get going, so let’s walk through the steps of thought, measurement basics, and so on. Online order information: Item #:…
Find out more »Webinar: Fitting Points in Garment Designer
Fitting Points in Garment Designer ** NEW Wednesday, 9/30/20 5 pm 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. …
Find out more »October 2020
Free Webinar Lecture: 90 Years of Fabric
This lecture covers a history of fabrics from the 1920’s through 2010. Susan gave this lecture at the San Diego History Center two years ago, when there were celebrating their 90th Anniversary. You will learn a bit of history for each decade, as well as the fabrics that were common at that time. There are lots of images, and we think you will not only be entertained, but you may indeed go down memory lane for some of the decades.…
Find out more »Webinar: Approaches to Copying Ready-to-Wear
Monday, Oct. 12th, 2020 at 4 p.m. Pacific Time 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, and then the best way to get the image to a pattern with…
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