Melange: Combining Two or More Textile/Fabric Techniques
Designalong with or without Garment Designer
For sewers, knitters, weavers, spinners, quilters, embroiderers, crochet, textile artists, etc.
$75.00
- Thursday, October 30th, 2025. 9 a.m. PT
- Thursday, November 6th, 2025 9 a.m. PT
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Thursday, December 4th, 2025. 9 a.m. PT or, tbd with group
- Meetings will be on Zoom
Attend live or watch the recordings
Welcome to the fourth in a series of Designalongs with Cochenille.
Are you a dabbler in different textile/fabric techniques? Or have you been looking for an excuse to push yourself to finesses a new skill and incorporate it in a garment?
Join us in our next Designalong: Melange – Combining Textile/Fabric Techniques where we walk through the creative process of planning and designing a garment. You can use Garment Designer or work with a commercial pattern. We will follow the typical process designers use when creating new garments, so you will learn to approach your work in the same way. It is great fun.
Think Combinations… such as
• Woven/Knits • Handwoven/Commercial Fabrics • Sewn Garment with Quilt techniques. • Sewn Garment and Embroidery • Dyeing and Sewing/Knitting • Machine Knit and Hand Knit. • Knit/Sewn Garment with Embellishment • Printing/Sewn Garment • etc. etc.
Here is an outline of the Designalong:
Class #1: Introduction to the Melange: Combining Techniques Project
- Discussion of the Project
- Presentation of Examples
- Approaches to Combining Textile/Fabric Techniques
- Planning Fabrications/Techniques
- Inspiration: Using Pinterest to Gather Ideas
- Discussion of Mood Boards
- Building a Mood Board in PowerPoint, Canva, or by Hand
Homework
- Choose your Techniques/Fabrications
- Collect Images of Inspirations as well as items to use for your Mood Board
- Create a Mood Board revolving around your choice of fabric and style
- Create a Rough Sketch of the garment you want to create
Class Two: Presentations of Concepts and Planning your Patter
- Presentations of Student Mood Boards/Concepts
- Discussion of Translating your Design Concept to a Drawing with Dimensions
- Using Reference Garments and Proportions
- Translating your Design Concept to a Clothing Pattern
- Building the Pattern
- Possible Construction and Garment Building Techniques
Homework:
- Plan the dimensions of your Garment
- Build the Pattern
- Test Techniques
- Create your Melange Garment
- Prepare a presentation to share with the group.
Class #3: Presentations and Discussion
- Presentations of Student Designs
- Critique
- Discussion
If you have any questions, please email Susan at Cochenille. susan@cochenille.com