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

[maria aka bubby]

HI.  thanks this will be very helpful. Iwill save this email for sure.

thanks.


God bless, Maria and karly from australia.
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On 9/1/2010 12:19 PM, Eileen Scrivani wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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.
>> 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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