Wanna create an animal family and need to mark the difference between adults and babies?
The same pattern can be used for a variety of sizes if you apply a few simple tricks.
Rule number one
The magic number
You most likely already noticed that a
great majority of patterns starts with a chain of six.
It's not a coincidence. Six is a very
comfortable number for both cones (6,9,12,15...) and spheres
(6,12,18,24...) and it's easily multiplied (increase) or divided
(decrease) by 2.
So if your pattern starts with a sphere
or cone, all you need to do is start with a lower number or keep
increasing the number of loops to the desirable size.
Rule number two
The maths
You can easily notice that the pattern
for cones follows this basic rule: 1 – 1,5 – 2 – 2,5 which in
terms of crotchet could be presented as: x*sc,
x*(1sc-1ds),x*(2sc-1ds),x*(3sc-1ds),(...); where x is the initial
number of loops in your chain, sc a single crotchet and ds is
double-stich (increase). Note that the number of single crotchets
increases by one in each following row.
For spheres the pattern changes
slightly, it goes 1-2-3-4, which
is:x*sc,x*ds,x*(1sc-1ds),x*(2sc-1ds),(...); with x being the initial
number of loops and the same increase of 1sc in the following rows.
The same rule applies to decrease (dc),
however this time we'll be going backwards, i.e. cones (…)
x*(3sc-1dc),x*(2sc-1dc),x*(1sc-1dc),x*dc and spheres (…)
x*(2sc-1dc),x*(1sc-1dc),x*dc
Rule number three
When it's not about ds or dc anymore
The number of repetitions for each raw
should also change, especially in the parts when you need to repeat
the row more than twice. Your choice of the number of repetitions may
depend on the final effect you want to achieve, but as a rule of a
thumb, I suggest you multiply the number of rows by 1,5, rather than
2. It should keep the proportions quite right.
Rule number four
Not everything needs to change
You will soon notice that not all the
parts of your final work need to be bigger than in the original
pattern. Sometimes keeping one element the same size works perfectly
with both well. For example, I chose to keep the original size of
eyes, ears and wings for my two owls.
Rule number five
You can always go back and repeat
When changing the original patterns,
it's good to take notes of the changes you introduced. This way you
can always go back and correct your work and repeat the patterns for
elements that come double (ears) or more (legs).
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