Thread: Yeeeessshhhh !!! need help with foriegn measures

Originally Posted by woody

50cm = 19 and 5/8"
25cm =about 9 and 7/8"
15cm = about 5 and 7/8"
12cm = 4 and 3/4 inches
5cm = just a whisker under 2"

25mm = 1"
6mm = pretty close to 1/4"

I hope this helps a bit, are you able to get rulers from your stationery store that has centimetres and milimetres? Then you could just put it on your inch ruler and convert them that way.

No need to go to stationary store--------------USE YOUR OWN rulers that you already have. The straight rulers have metric measures on one side, inches on the other.

Originally Posted by woody

50cm = 19 and 5/8"
25cm =about 9 and 7/8"
15cm = about 5 and 7/8"
12cm = 4 and 3/4 inches
5cm = just a whisker under 2"

25mm = 1"
6mm = pretty close to 1/4"

I hope this helps a bit, are you able to get rulers from your stationery store that has centimetres and milimetres? Then you could just put it on your inch ruler and convert them that way.

If the measurements are given in metric------------USE METRIC. It's on the ruler you have. No need at all to convert. What's more, web site or not, it's way too easy for any of us to mess up conversions.

I feel your pain. As part of Europe we switched to metric, although I was taught in Imperial. All weights and measures are sold by the kilo and metre.
Luckily most quilt patterns are in inches (although we have to buy our fabric by the metre )

2.5 cm and 25mm are the same length - 1".
cm or centimetre is 1/10th of a metre. mm is millimetre, a thousandth of a metre.
A metre is 39" long.

Virtually all our tape measures are two-sided. All I do is flip mine over. If you need me to send you one, pm me.

Dreamer, You can check your measuring tape...the other side should be metric.

I taped an old measuring tape onto my ruler so I didn't have to switch back and forth. Worked just fine for the project.

now you've been told already what the measurements mean.
But with us here in the netherlands ofcourse it's the other way around.
Because it's almost impossible to do the math and get it 100% right I think indeed the best advise is to get a metric ruler.
I'm working with inch-rulers all the time when I'm quilting

Originally Posted by dreamer2009

50cm = ?
25cm = ?
15cm = ?
12cm = ?
5cm = ?

25mm = ?
6mm = ?

Are you aware that most straight quilting rulers (most rulers period) have centermeters on one side. Just use that side and not the inch side.

GrannieAnnie, none of my quilting rulers have metric. That would be very confusing, since there's enough markings on them already. Where are you finding ones that do? (Not that I need or want them, just wondering.)

Originally Posted by dunster

GrannieAnnie, none of my quilting rulers have metric. That would be very confusing, since there's enough markings on them already. Where are you finding ones that do? (Not that I need or want them, just wondering.)

The ruler I used just this morning--------my favorite.
OLFA

I'm so used to seeing both on measuring instruments that I don't even pay attention most of the time.

Originally Posted by GrannieAnnie

The ruler I used just this morning--------my favorite.
OLFA

I'm so used to seeing both on measuring instruments that I don't even pay attention most of the time.

That's strange. I've seen centimeters marked on yardsticks frequently, but not on quilting rulers. My Olfa mats don't have metric. None of the Olfa products I can find online have both inches and centimeters. They do have a mat that has metric on one side and inches on the other, and they have rulers that are metric only. Did you buy your Olfa rulers in another country?