Sizing With Spreadsheets course - private class, custom schedule (1-6 students)
A custom course for custom sizing! Options available for anywhere from 1 to 6 students.
Interested in learning how to make your patterns completely size-inclusive and self-grading for all body shapes and sizes? Want even more personalized instruction? This 4-session, private live online course teaches designers (or future designers!) everything they need to turn their fiber patterns into inclusive, self-grading spreadsheets.
A custom course for custom sizing! Options available for anywhere from 1 to 6 students.
Interested in learning how to make your patterns completely size-inclusive and self-grading for all body shapes and sizes? Want even more personalized instruction? This 4-session, private live online course teaches designers (or future designers!) everything they need to turn their fiber patterns into inclusive, self-grading spreadsheets.
A custom course for custom sizing! Options available for anywhere from 1 to 6 students.
Interested in learning how to make your patterns completely size-inclusive and self-grading for all body shapes and sizes? Want even more personalized instruction? This 4-session, private live online course teaches designers (or future designers!) everything they need to turn their fiber patterns into inclusive, self-grading spreadsheets.
What’s different about this course compared to the scheduled course?
While each Sizing With Spreadsheet course is tailored to its audience, this is an opportunity to customize it even further. In addition to a schedule of your choosing, we will also work together to tailor any and all of the content to your particular goals and interests. If you prefer 1:1 learning, this is an opportunity to schedule a solo course. Or if you and several fiber friends want to take the course together!
Schedule
Session 1 (1 hour)— Introductions, Overview, and How to Think About Spreadsheet Design
Session 2 (2 hours) — Pattern Anchors, Transitions, and Number Properties
Session 3 (2 hours) — Spreadsheet Formulas and Functions
Session 4 (2 hours) — Synthesizing Sessions 1-3 into a Pattern
Since this is a personalized class, the schedule is personalized, too. We will work together to determine the best schedule for you. I recommend approximately 1 week between each session in order to allow sufficient time for the out of class assignments.
Please feel free to reach out to me at sarah@swankyemuknits.com if you wish to discuss a potential schedule before purchasing.
Course Information
Throughout this advanced course, you will learn step-by-step how to break down your new and existing designs into their fundamental pieces (called anchors and transitions) and how to generalize and translate this using common spreadsheet formulas and functions for automatic scaling. Absolutely no previous spreadsheet experience is needed, although it is helpful. While learning these steps, you’ll be taking one of your designs through this process and by the end of the course you will have at least one completed spreadsheet pattern!
Other details:
7 hours of live instruction (via Zoom) over 4 sessions
Small class size
A private space (Slack channel) for discussion, questions, and other extras between class sessions
Copies of all slides, handouts, and sample spreadsheets used throughout the course
After the course ends, you will receive:
Permanent access to a private community (Slack channel) of other designers who have completed Sizing With Spreadsheets courses
Space in the Designers using Sizing With Spreadsheets area to showcase your available designs
Requirements:
Internet access and the ability to join the weekly Zoom meetings
Experience and comfort with garment design and knitting/crocheting math. No worries if you haven’t published a pattern yet, or designed a garment for anyone but yourself, but you should be very comfortable with the construction methods of your designs, converting gauge to a measurement or stitch counts, and other similar calculations.
After the course ends, when you use this framework in any of your published patterns, they are still 100% your patterns and designs! The only thing I ask is to include the following information somewhere in your pattern:
This pattern was designed using the Sizing with Spreadsheets framework.
For more information, visit http://swankyemuknits.com/sizing-with-spreadsheets
Testimonials
I use spreadsheets every day, tech editing garment patterns for knitwear designers. For some time, I had been playing around with the idea of super-charging a spreadsheet to grade a pattern based on the knitter's personal measurements. Traditional grading is based on size charts, which often don't match real bodies, and I am one of those knitters who have to make a lot of modifications to patterns when I knit them. I always have designs floating around in my head, but despaired at the thought of having to grade my own designs. I wanted "plug and play" for my future knitters and for myself. Enter this fabulous course! Sarah has done the hard work to figure out how to make a spreadsheet into a fillable pattern form. I couldn't be more pleased with her experienced teaching style, the information she provided, and the feedback on my ideas. If you are looking for a pattern-writing style that is outside the box, or if you have designs that need something other than traditional grading, don't hesitate to take this course.