Tips and tricks for modifying knitting patterns to make unique garments and make your dream knit

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Question of the week: have you implemented any of these pattern modifications or another?

How to change your gauge:

[(your inches per stitches)/(the pattern’s inches per stitch)] x100 = the percentage of the pattern you will get with your gauge

To get inches per stitch, simply flip the denominators of the stitches per 4 inches measurement and divide. (Example: a 20 stitch per 4 inch gauge means there are 4 inches for 20 stitches, or 0.2 inches per stitch)

Example: (0.2/0.1)x100= 200%

Gauges:

40 stitches per 4 inches= 4/40= 0.1 inches per stitch

20 stitches per 4 inches= 2/40= 0.2 inches per stitch

Once you have your percentage of the pattern, multiply that percentage (as a decimal, ie 200% would be 2, 89% would be .89) by the measurements of the sizes in the pattern to find what size you will achieve

Example: 30 inch bust circumference x2= 60 inch bust circumference

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