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

[Dixie]

Oh, thank you!  This is a great help!  I have a plastic card with holes for
all the needle sizes on it, now I can use this as a basis to chart out what
the holes are so I can use it independently!

Now I just have to find something similar for the crochet hook sizes!




Dixie

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-----Original Message-----
From: nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org
[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Eileen Scrivani
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 10:20 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Knitting Progress...finally!

Hi Maria:

Your sizing for needles is clearly by Metric & ours is U.S. sizing there is 
also Canadian/U.K. sizing to make things all the more confusing.  I'm 
posting a link below that will give a chart for the needle conversions & 
their equivalents the colums/rows are presented as Metric Sizes (mm),
U.S. sizes, & then UK/Canadian.  In some cases of MM sizes I think there are

no U.S. equivalent, but you can look it up on the listing at:

http://www.yarnforward.com/needleconv.html


I think your size 4.0MM is our U.S. size 6.  You might want to copy and 
paste the chart into a file so you can look sizes up or at least file away 
the link to the web site.

HTH.

Eileen



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From: "maria aka bubby" <bubbygirl1972 at gmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, August 31, 2010 7:07 PM
To: "List for blind crafters and artists" <nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Knitting Progress...finally!

> 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.
>>
>
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