Debating centimetres



Centimetres, they give me a good deal of trouble in pattern writing! If I was queen of the world everyone would work in cm. They make much more sense to me and are easier to work with in knitting as they give a smaller unit of measurement without having to be broken up. Sadly I'm not the queen of the world and a good deal of the world, at least in the knitting market, is used to operating in inches.

Inches, they give me a good deal of trouble in pattern writing! I want a piece to be x cm long and it always converts to x,something-odd inches. Could we please just all become part of the Knitmoregirls' metric revolution??!! Pretty please...

Now I'm debating going strictly centimetres or strictly inches in my patterns, because including both, which I have thus far to make it easy for you no matter what you are used to, is simple proving to be a looooot of work.

One of the patterns I'm currently writing up has 10 sizes (see I'm all about making it easy for you), which translates to 20, TWENTY, different measurements every. single. time. That isn't easy for me and certainly not for you either!

What do you think? Should I stick to my roots and go cm only? Maybe go international with only inches?  Or should I just stop wining and keep giving both?
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  1. Assel Knits22 October 2014 at 14:18

    I use both in the schematic (converting and adding the measurements there is not much work), but aside from that I only use inches. Makes the document look cleaner, saves me work, and I feel it's enough information given. Nobody ever complained.

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    1. Fugal Lady23 October 2014 at 14:00

      What a great way to compromise. It will certainly give the pattern a lot cleaner look.

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  2. Anonymous22 October 2014 at 18:18

    I'm voting for centimeters. I live in the US and while I do use inches, I find myself using the centimeter measurements more often because they are a smaller unit of measure and easier to see vs. inches with halves or quarters. :)

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    1. Fugal Lady23 October 2014 at 14:01

      You and I couldn't agree more on this, but do standard measuring devices come with cm in the US?

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  3. Tahnee22 October 2014 at 21:02

    I am a cm kind of person myself and definitely prefer to have cm's in the patterns I use. But to keep patterns as accessible as possible it would make sense to do both.

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    1. Fugal Lady23 October 2014 at 14:02

      That was my first point of view, sadly it just seems to get complicated when it includes a lot of sizes.

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  4. Anonymous23 October 2014 at 18:37

    I'm having the same issue. I would rather just use centimetres. I've only published small simply sized patterns thus far so have listed both measurements. In the future I plan to use cm only with inches on the schematic only OR use cm only throughout with a table of necessary conversions in the special notes section. Unfortunately until every knitter and crocheter in the few countries still using Imperial measurements joins the Knitmore's Metric Revolution this is going to be a problem. To go International would be to use Metric but that leaves out the US customer base. I know in Canada measuring devices use both systems.

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    1. Fugal Lady24 October 2014 at 11:15

      Thank you for your input. I guess you are right that truly international would be cm. When I look at my (granted very small) costumer base I see a lot of Americans. It's a pickle to be sure.

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