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.

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.

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/

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

Thanks for your replies. The math equation is so simple. Who knew?

Then there are those seam allowances to consider - - - -

I love my EQ7 program. I use it a lot especially when I have bought a pattern and I want to make a smaller size.

Divide the little number by the big number. That will be the percentage.

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.