I just picked up my August/September Issue and went straight to the copy shop. I'm not sure that the instructions on how to copy are right. First your told to copy the paterns at 100% cut them out them enlarge again to 800%. My local copy place said their large format copier only goes up to 400% at a time. When we tried to figure out how to get the pattern pieces to the correct size we wasted a whole of paper. I looked back at the patterns from last month and the instructions say to go to 400%. Help?!?!
Edited by - Cheekyredhead on Jul 17 2008 1:15:22 PM
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Posted - Jul 17 2008 : 1:33:10 PM
Hi Christine!
I called the farm and talked to Carol. They were assured by Fed-Ex/Kinkos that all Fed-Ex/Kinkos have a large format copier that will do 800%. It seems that some of the workers at the copy places might be misinformed because the second time the ladies from MJF went to get the pattern enlarged the workers thought it only went to 400%. So if you enlarge it straight from the 8.5X11 that the magazine is formatted in to 800% it should work out perfectly. If you go 400% and then enlarge again to 400% it will give you 160000% (if my math is correct).
So should we still copy them @ 100% and cut on the dotted lines before we englarge @ 800% or just enlarge the entire magazine page to 800%? I am new @ copying patterns also...
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Posted - Jul 17 2008 : 10:04:39 PM
Hi Whitney-
You got it! You want to copy them so you don't mess up the magazine. Then you cut them out so the copy operator can arrange them close together (otherwise you would be paying for A LOT of space!) and when it is enlarged to 800% you have your pattern!
I was wondering if we enlarged by 2% then enlarged again by 400% shouldn't that give us an over all size of 800% over the original? I really am terrible at math so someone may want to check me on this.
I found it pretty easy to draw a 1" grid on tissue paper and draw out the designs when I made the apron from the previous issue. I'm no artist, but I got it close enough to love the resulting apron!
The problem with doing that with these patterns is that there's no grid behind them this time so no reference for scale other wise it's what I would have done instead of paying for the copies.
OH, darn. I don't have the new issue yet. It was so handy to have the grid before. Maybe they'll go back to it next time. Guess I'll be in the same boat as you when I get the new copy. But hey, can't you draw your own grid in on your original? Just make the boxes 1/4" size? Wonder if that would work?
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Posted - Jul 21 2008 : 07:55:33 AM
Christine- That doesn't come out right. I did the math- and will try to summarize it her. I haven't seen the pattern yet so the base length I am using is meaningless except as a way to start the algebra.
If the base length of the patter in 10 inches, and you want to get that to 800% the base length would then be 80 inches. (10X800= 8000 then divide by 100 to length instead of % which would be 80) So that would be the correct length for my hypothetical pattern.
So if I took that same pattern and increased it by 2% (10*102=1020 then 1020 to remove percent and get length is only 10.2) So then I take 10.2 and increase it by 400% (10.2*400=4080 4080/100 to remove % and get length is 40.8).
So after doing the math I realized what you would want to increase it by is 2 times (200%) not 2%.
I hope that helps? I should call my High School math teacher and tell him I was wrong....I actually did use algebra in real life! :D
Has any one tried to copy patterns?
Posted - Jul 17 2008 : 1:13:01 PM
