The Fear of Math

How-to Questions
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First, I would like to bounce happily and say that I am working on my first pair of socks and very successfully knitting and turned my first heel. :woot: It was magical and strangely easy! Now for the gusset and the rest of it, but I feel I’m in the clear. :smiley:

Now, for the matter at hand. I needed a new knitting project and I found a pattern for a dice bag. My boyfriend is loaded with dice and counters, but he keeps them in a zip lock bag, so I thought I could make something schnazzy. So I found a pattern for one, which is linked below. Unfortunately, it’s far too small.

Dice Bag Link

I really like how this one works, but I’d like to double it in size. My first thought was to double the cast on, but since it’s so much decreasing, I didn’t know how to go about doing the math.

Can anyone give some pointers? I’m completely lost on this one.

Thanks!

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You could knit it in thicker yarn on larger needles and keep the same number of stitches. That may not double the size, but it would be bigger. If you CO twice the number of stitches, you would double the length to where you begin the decreases, and double the number of sts between the decreases to start. So if your pattern starts with 30 sts, knit for 3", then dec by k5, k2tog around, you would CO 60sts, knit for 6" (or it could be 4-5") and k10, k2tog all around. It’s not that difficult really.

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That… sounds so much easier. I was thinking I’d have to do a ton of conversions or something. Makes sense to me! :smiley:

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No, usually it’s simple math. The math geeks like to compare it to algebra or something, and it can be done that way, but usually, just simple addition or multiplication can be done to convert most patterns.