Sizing With Spreadsheets course - May 25th - June 15th, 2023
Interested in learning how to make your patterns completely size-inclusive and self-grading for all body shapes and sizes? This 4-week live online course teaches designers (or future designers!) and tech editors everything they need to turn their fiber patterns into inclusive, self-grading spreadsheets.
Sliding scale pricing is available to all if needed - more detailed information below.
Summer 2023 schedule
Week 1 — Introductions, Overview, and How to Think About Spreadsheet Design; Thursday, May 25, 6pm - 7pm Central Time (UTC -5)
Week 2 — Pattern Anchors, Transitions, and Number Properties; Thursday, June 1, 6pm - 8pm
Week 3 — Spreadsheet Formulas and Functions; Thursday, June 8, 6pm - 8pm
Week 4 — Synthesizing Weeks 1-3 into a Pattern; Thursday, June 15, 6pm - 8pm
Sliding Scale Pricing
Sliding scale pricing is available for all if needed.
Use the following discount codes to choose your price at check out.
full price (no code needed) = $450
SWS400 = $400 for the entire course
SWS350 = $350
SWS300 = $300
SWS250 = $250
SWS200 = $200
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 weeks
Small class size of 5-7 designers
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.