Old 06-03-2013, 05:44 AM
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The names are the same - Fat Quarters and Eighths (less common) but 'yardage' is cut by the metre - 39" instead of 36", so, like Canada, our FQs are a little bigger.
A lot of patterns and most fanrics are imported from the US anyway, so the majority of people work in inches. Some of the younger quilters do use centimetres for measuring, but most don't.
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