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Old March 24th 17, 09:10 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Night Mist
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I often dream about going completely metric in sewing. The math would be so much easier!
Just imagine never having to use fractions. Never having to swear at your quilting ruler because it does not have all the "right" fractions. Never having to deal with thirds or fifths because that is how the geometry came out.
Just think of all the math in decimals that you can round to a single place because centimeters are less than half the size of inches and millimeters are 1/10th of that.
I am planning on just ordering a couple of metric quilting rulers off Amazon. I am sick to death of the shops telling me they cannot get them for less than ridiculous prices.
I already use the metric side of my tape measure for most of my garment sewing. Since I draft my own patterns most of the time I can do that pretty painlessly.
I keep a shrink log so I know what the approximate widths of the various fabrics I buy are after prewash. However If you don't prewash all you have to do is multiply by 2.54 to turn inches into centimeters, and divide by that to turn centimeters into inches. Hardly an arithmetic trauma, and you can figure out how much you need in either direction. I often pick up a few metres of this or that when I visit Canada, so my math swings both ways.

NightMist
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