Originally Posted by
Dalronix
Hi Maggieloe,
Australia commenced moving to the metric system in the late 60s. Now I'm only new to sewing and quilting, but so far everything I come across in sewing in Australia - even quilting rulers made in Australia - still use the imperial system. Often fabric will show both metric and imperial with the latter being the most prominent.
It's interesting how imperial still rules the sewing world as the US (I'm not criticising your country!
) must be close to the last country in the world not to have gone metric. (According to a Google search only the US, Liberia, Burma and the UK still use imperial although the UK is an Imperial-Metric society where metric is slowly becoming the norm.)
Here endeth the lesson.
Believe it or not! ! ! the metric system is being used in the U.S. But mostly on car and machinery part. I hope we get smarter sooner and realize that metric is the way to go.