Looking for metric needles

If any of you have a 7.5mm circular needle, 80cm or so, that you'd like
to part with -- I'm interested in buying one. Or perhaps one of the
Canadians would be able to buy one from their LYS and mail it to me -
pre-payment to be arranged. Contact me at my good address -- qiuser at
yahoo dot com.

sue

suzee wrote:
If any of you have a 7.5mm circular needle, 80cm or so, that you'd like
to part with -- I'm interested in buying one. Or perhaps one of the
Canadians would be able to buy one from their LYS and mail it to me -
pre-payment to be arranged. Contact me at my good address -- qiuser at
yahoo dot com.

sue
Hi all,
Jenny here, feeling muuuuch better now .
I have a lot of circular needles, but I don't know what size they are.
not in a wrapper,and not on the needles, if someone here can tell me how
to tell the sizes ?and if I have what you are looking for I can send
them to you. I think at one time I had a "card" with different size
holes that was for needle sizing, lost in my stash now, is there another
way to know the size?
Jenny

In article , jheller wrote:
suzee wrote:
If any of you have a 7.5mm circular needle, 80cm or so, that you'd like
to part with -- I'm interested in buying one. Or perhaps one of the
Canadians would be able to buy one from their LYS and mail it to me -
pre-payment to be arranged. Contact me at my good address -- qiuser at
yahoo dot com.

Jenny here, feeling muuuuch better now .
I have a lot of circular needles, but I don't know what size they are.
not in a wrapper,and not on the needles, if someone here can tell me how
to tell the sizes ?and if I have what you are looking for I can send
them to you. I think at one time I had a "card" with different size
holes that was for needle sizing, lost in my stash now, is there another
way to know the size?

7.5mm would be close to 5/16 of an inch. But trying to measure knitting
needles with a flat ruler is pretty hopeless. You'd have to poke a hole
in a piece of paper and trim it so that it fit the needle exactly and
then measure precisely across the center with a metric ruler (most new
rulers have the metric measurements on one edge). It might be easier to
find your needle gauge.

Also, it's a size that doesn't even appear on my conversion card,
which lists metric sizes 7mm (US 10 1/2) and 8mm (US 10 3/4) but
not 7.5mm.

=Tamar

Richard Eney wrote:
In article , jheller wrote:
suzee wrote:
If any of you have a 7.5mm circular needle, 80cm or so, that you'd like
to part with -- I'm interested in buying one. Or perhaps one of the
Canadians would be able to buy one from their LYS and mail it to me -
pre-payment to be arranged. Contact me at my good address -- qiuser at
yahoo dot com.

Jenny here, feeling muuuuch better now .
I have a lot of circular needles, but I don't know what size they are.
not in a wrapper,and not on the needles, if someone here can tell me how
to tell the sizes ?and if I have what you are looking for I can send
them to you. I think at one time I had a "card" with different size
holes that was for needle sizing, lost in my stash now, is there another
way to know the size?

7.5mm would be close to 5/16 of an inch. But trying to measure knitting
needles with a flat ruler is pretty hopeless. You'd have to poke a hole
in a piece of paper and trim it so that it fit the needle exactly and
then measure precisely across the center with a metric ruler (most new
rulers have the metric measurements on one edge). It might be easier to
find your needle gauge.

Also, it's a size that doesn't even appear on my conversion card,
which lists metric sizes 7mm (US 10 1/2) and 8mm (US 10 3/4) but
not 7.5mm.

I have a needle gauge that has US/metric on one side and US/Imperial(UK)
on the other side with measurements in inches and centimeters along the
edges. It has 10.5 as 6.5mm which I think is standard. Very handy gadget
- discovered that some of my really old needles are almost the next size
up from what they're labelled.

And Jenny, you could take some that you think might be close to 7.5mm
with you to a store and `try out' their needle gauge to see which is
what.

sue

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"Richard Eney" wrote in message
...
: In article , jheller
wrote:
: suzee wrote:
: If any of you have a 7.5mm circular needle, 80cm or so,
that you'd like
: to part with -- I'm interested in buying one. Or
perhaps one of the
: Canadians would be able to buy one from their LYS and
mail it to me -
: pre-payment to be arranged. Contact me at my good
address -- qiuser at
: yahoo dot com.
:
: Jenny here, feeling muuuuch better now .
: I have a lot of circular needles, but I don't know what
size they are.
: not in a wrapper,and not on the needles, if someone here
can tell me how
: to tell the sizes ?and if I have what you are looking for
I can send
: them to you. I think at one time I had a "card" with
different size
: holes that was for needle sizing, lost in my stash now,
is there another
: way to know the size?
:
: 7.5mm would be close to 5/16 of an inch. But trying to
measure knitting
: needles with a flat ruler is pretty hopeless. You'd have
to poke a hole
: in a piece of paper and trim it so that it fit the needle
exactly and
: then measure precisely across the center with a metric
ruler (most new
: rulers have the metric measurements on one edge). It
might be easier to
: find your needle gauge.
:
: Also, it's a size that doesn't even appear on my
conversion card,
: which lists metric sizes 7mm (US 10 1/2) and 8mm (US 10
3/4) but
: not 7.5mm.
:
: =Tamar

suzee wrote:
If any of you have a 7.5mm circular needle, 80cm or so, that you'd like
to part with -- I'm interested in buying one. Or perhaps one of the
Canadians would be able to buy one from their LYS and mail it to me -
pre-payment to be arranged. Contact me at my good address -- qiuser at
yahoo dot com.

sue

You can buy metric needles from us

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

And a needle guage

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

There is a funky one at the top of the page, or scroll down for a low
cost one.

Roger.

Yarn Forward wrote:
suzee wrote:
If any of you have a 7.5mm circular needle, 80cm or so, that you'd like
to part with -- I'm interested in buying one. Or perhaps one of the
Canadians would be able to buy one from their LYS and mail it to me -
pre-payment to be arranged. Contact me at my good address -- qiuser at
yahoo dot com.

sue

You can buy metric needles from us

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

And a needle guage

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

There is a funky one at the top of the page, or scroll down for a low
cost one.

I was at this page last night, but don't see any 7.5mm except in the set.

sue

OMG! Mom gave me her yarn ball winder, and I had no idea the cost of the
thing. I just went to the yarnforward site and it's $54US! Thanks Mom!!!
"suzee" wrote in message
...
Yarn Forward wrote:
suzee wrote:
If any of you have a 7.5mm circular needle, 80cm or so, that you'd like
to part with -- I'm interested in buying one. Or perhaps one of the
Canadians would be able to buy one from their LYS and mail it to me -
pre-payment to be arranged. Contact me at my good address -- qiuser at
yahoo dot com.

sue

You can buy metric needles from us

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

And a needle guage

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

There is a funky one at the top of the page, or scroll down for a low
cost one.

I was at this page last night, but don't see any 7.5mm except in the set.

sue

In article , suzee wrote:
Richard Eney wrote:

Also, it's a size that doesn't even appear on my conversion card,
which lists metric sizes 7mm (US 10 1/2) and 8mm (US 10 3/4) but
not 7.5mm.

I have a needle gauge that has US/metric on one side and US/Imperial(UK)
on the other side with measurements in inches and centimeters along the
edges. It has 10.5 as 6.5mm which I think is standard.

You're right, I misread my card. US 10 1/2 is 6.5mm, US 10 3/4 is 7mm.
US 11 is 8mm. But still no 7.5mm on the card.

Very handy gadget - discovered that some of my really old needles
are almost the next size up from what they're labelled.

I once tried to correlate several different conversion lists and there
were some big differences. Of course, the size changes in the mid-20th
century didn't help, but the variations go back further than that.
I have a bunch of antique knitting needles and they are all sizes in
between the official ones even on the old gauges.

And Jenny, you could take some that you think might be close to 7.5mm
with you to a store and `try out' their needle gauge to see which is
what.

What a good idea!

=Tamar

Richard Eney wrote:
In article , suzee wrote:
Richard Eney wrote:

Also, it's a size that doesn't even appear on my conversion card,
which lists metric sizes 7mm (US 10 1/2) and 8mm (US 10 3/4) but
not 7.5mm.
I have a needle gauge that has US/metric on one side and US/Imperial(UK)
on the other side with measurements in inches and centimeters along the
edges. It has 10.5 as 6.5mm which I think is standard.

You're right, I misread my card. US 10 1/2 is 6.5mm, US 10 3/4 is 7mm.
US 11 is 8mm. But still no 7.5mm on the card.

Very handy gadget - discovered that some of my really old needles
are almost the next size up from what they're labelled.

I once tried to correlate several different conversion lists and there
were some big differences. Of course, the size changes in the mid-20th
century didn't help, but the variations go back further than that.
I have a bunch of antique knitting needles and they are all sizes in
between the official ones even on the old gauges.

Mine aren't exactly antiques, they're younger than I am! They're about
40 years old though.

And Jenny, you could take some that you think might be close to 7.5mm
with you to a store and `try out' their needle gauge to see which is
what.

What a good idea!

I did that with a couple when I started up knitting again last year. I
wasn't sure what sizes they were.

sue