[Nfb-krafters-korner] Knitting Progress...finally!

[maria aka bubby]

Hi.

in australia our standard needles are 4 mm? so when you guys speak of 
size eights and size 11's how do they equate to our sizes does anyone 
know?  thanks


God bless, Maria and karly from australia.
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On 8/26/2010 3:51 AM, Terrence van Ettinger wrote:
> So after questioning myself all through class and *FINALLY* realizing
> at the very end that I had the wrong size needle, I went out and
> bought myself some SIZE 8's, not 8 MILIMETERs!  I actually went to a
> yarn store this time, and got to look at what they called a size 11
> (the number on the end of my original pair).  Sure enough, the 11s
> turned out to be 8mm.  I took my wooden size 8s home and started
> practicing with them.  Well, come to find out they had a defect, and
> had to be replaced.  I went back to Far North Yarn, and asked for
> another pair; they took one look at my defective pair and replaced
> them at no cost to me.  I went home and started some real simple
> knitting...and it actually looks knitted!  I'm going to re-tackle that
> pattern tonight.  I'll let you all know how it goes.
>