Scaling up a pattern?

[rusty76]

Scavenger Hunt Block - This is a crochet pattern for a gorgeous basketweave style 'sample size' block (9x7 inches)

I'm willing although not really familiar with adapting patterns, and I'd love to scale this up to baby blanket size, or even couch throw size. Any suggestions on increasing the given proportions? Will increasing each stitch count by 4 yield a 36" blanket? Or...what?

Comments

[ysobel]

Ohhh that is awesome!

Two options occur to me for scaling up:

1) Do a bunch of sample-size blocks and sc them together; or

2) adjust the initial chain and number of repeats.

For the second option, you want to have a foundation chain with a number that is a multiple of 8 plus 5. So for something that's about four times as wide, instead of doing 37 (four eight-stitch repeats plus five), you would want 133 (sixteen eight-stitch repeats plus five). It isn't quite four times the original because there are some edge stitches going on.

And then where it says (whatever) 4 times, you would do (whatever) 16 times, but leave the edgey instructions the same. And then do more rows, of course.

(All this is assuming that you just want a blanket that uses that pattern, rather than actually changing the pattern so that each basketweave element is four times as big.)

[rusty76]

Thank you so much - this is exactly what I was hoping for! I want to make the same look, only bigger, so your option two should work.