{"id":4006,"date":"2018-12-16T08:20:52","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T13:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=4006"},"modified":"2018-12-16T10:32:02","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T15:32:02","slug":"enlarging-a-pattern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=4006","title":{"rendered":"Enlarging A Pattern"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are tricks to sizing clothing patterns &#8212;&nbsp;<em>people<\/em>&nbsp;don&#8217;t grow proportionally &#8212; but to make non-clothing patterns proportionally bigger, Adobe PDFs can just be turned into posters in the print menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the print menu, select &#8220;Poster&#8221; and then enter the factor by which you want to scale the original pattern.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"973\" height=\"887\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ResizingPatterns-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4016\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ResizingPatterns-1.png 973w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ResizingPatterns-1-300x273.png 300w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/ResizingPatterns-1-768x700.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 973px) 100vw, 973px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s that percentage? I use Excel to figure it out. Enter the original dimensions, a formula to multiply the original size by the scale factor &#8230; I usually add a cell subtracting the scaled size from the seam allowance to ensure my new object will be the size I wanted.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/CalcScaleFactor.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4012\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/CalcScaleFactor.png 680w, https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/CalcScaleFactor-300x132.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I select &#8220;Cut marks&#8221; on the print menu so I&#8217;ve got something to line up when assembling the pages. Print, and you&#8217;ve got a bigger pattern. And now to make Anya a bigger backpack (the little owl one I made her a few years ago doesn&#8217;t fit the 10&#215;12 notebook or some of the larger library books!).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are tricks to sizing clothing patterns &#8212;&nbsp;people&nbsp;don&#8217;t grow proportionally &#8212; but to make non-clothing patterns proportionally bigger, Adobe PDFs can just be turned into posters in the print menu. In the print menu, select &#8220;Poster&#8221; and then enter the factor by which you want to scale the original pattern. What&#8217;s that percentage? I use &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,29],"tags":[725,4,726],"class_list":["post-4006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sewing","category-technology","tag-enlarging-pattern","tag-sewing-2","tag-sizing-pattern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4006"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4018,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4006\/revisions\/4018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}