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

[maria aka bubby]

HI.

ok so does anyone know how Ican convert the sizes just in case I read an 
american knitting pattern?

thanks


God bless, Maria and karly from australia.
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On 9/1/2010 9:32 AM, Terrence van Ettinger wrote:
> That's exactly where the confusion happened.  Your 8 MM is our size
> 11.  When I asked the guy at Fred Meyer for size 8s, he looked at the
> Metric size, not the American size.  So here I was in knitting class,
> trying to knit on size 11s (American) while everyone else was knitting
> on size 8s (American).
>
> Terrence
>
> On 8/31/10, maria aka bubby<bubbygirl1972 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> 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.
>> twitter: bubbygirl
>> skype: bubbygirl1972
>> msn bubbygirl1972 at gmail.com
>> same for email.
>> proud member of tafn
>> listening to www.powerradio104.com
>>
>>
>> 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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