Help in reducing pattern size
#1
Help in reducing pattern size
I have a rotating wheel that I bought years ago from an online art supply site that gave you the percentage needed to either increase size or reduce size of a pattern. However, we moved a year ago and now I have no idea where it is. I have torn my sewing room apart looking for it because I found a paper-pieced pattern that is 12" and I need it to be 8" finished size. Can anyone tell me by what percentage I need to reduce this pattern to get to 8" finished size? Maybe by the time someone lets me know the answer, the wheel will turn up. I can always hope that to be the case. Thank you.
Never mind! I found it!!! Hurray! Like I said. I just didn't look far enough down in a drawer.
Never mind! I found it!!! Hurray! Like I said. I just didn't look far enough down in a drawer.
Last edited by AlvaStitcher; 12-30-2015 at 08:51 AM. Reason: cancel post
#2
math dullard here, but I learned a few months ago to divide the UNFINISHED unit size.
So if one of the units in the block is 2.5" Unfinished, and you want to do a 1/2 sized block
you'd start with .50 into 2.5 and get a 1.5" Unfinished unit. I think
you want to downsize by 1/3 so would you do .33 into 2.5? Or is it the other way around?
See, I'm just giving you time to find your wheel...what a friend am I!
Anyway, I'm thinking about doing some true minis, 1/12 the size of a 12" block.
So if one of the units in the block is 2.5" Unfinished, and you want to do a 1/2 sized block
you'd start with .50 into 2.5 and get a 1.5" Unfinished unit. I think
you want to downsize by 1/3 so would you do .33 into 2.5? Or is it the other way around?
See, I'm just giving you time to find your wheel...what a friend am I!
Anyway, I'm thinking about doing some true minis, 1/12 the size of a 12" block.
#3
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Here is one link from Google and uses the exact sizes you want! If you google "resizing a quilt pattern", there are many sources. Good luck!
http://blog.shopmartingale.com/quilt...-quilt-blocks/
http://blog.shopmartingale.com/quilt...-quilt-blocks/
#4
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I googled reducing quilt block sizes and came up with a few option...
http://www.generations-quilt-pattern...nal-scale.html
http://quilting.about.com/od/stepbys...uilt-Block.htm
http://www.thequiltedsnail.com/scale.html
http://www.quiltmaker.com/articles/R...ocks_Worksheet
and last but not least...from the QB http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...ck-t38185.html
http://www.generations-quilt-pattern...nal-scale.html
http://quilting.about.com/od/stepbys...uilt-Block.htm
http://www.thequiltedsnail.com/scale.html
http://www.quiltmaker.com/articles/R...ocks_Worksheet
and last but not least...from the QB http://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f1...ck-t38185.html
#9
Perhaps I was told wrong, about resize by the Unfinished size.
I know I didn't learn anything from those links
I don't want to know percentages, I want to know what size to cut...
I'll see if I can find my original source.
I know I didn't learn anything from those links
I don't want to know percentages, I want to know what size to cut...
I'll see if I can find my original source.
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