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In Part 1 of this series, we covered adding blocks to your quilt and resizing paper piecing patterns and other blocks made up of templates. In Part 2, we’re going to talk about what to do when you can’t just add more blocks to a quilt design because it will change the design, and instead you need to resize the whole quilt pattern. Here’s an example of a quilt I’ve sometimes gotten questions about resizing, my Meeting of the Geese lap quilt:

Adding more gray blocks around the edges would make the red triangles less prominent ...

A question I get frequently is whether or not one of my quilt patterns can be resized. So, I thought I’d put together a little guide on how you can do that! There are three ways to resize a quilt pattern:

1. Adding blocks
2. Resizing blocks (e.g. paper pieced blocks)
3. Resizing the entire quilt design (or traditionally pieced blocks)

I’ll cover the first two here; the third will be another post!

Adding blocks

This is the easiest way of changing up your quilt size, and one that you may well have already done with a quilt yourself! This ...