Originally Posted by
ladyinpurple135
I thunk I must have a very weird brain. When I changed from my old Singer to a brand new Viking 980 back in 1984 I was totally mystified about stitch length. But I seemed to have a flash back to college (way back in the 1960s) and remembered my math and the metric system. (The metric system is actually easier��). Anyway I seem to be able to think in metric and have no problem with figuring out how to go back and forth from metric to imperial. The rest of my brain doesn’t work that well!!! Anyway, just remember that there are 25mm per inch (2.5cm) and then divide - 12 stitches per inch is 2.0 and 10 stitches per inch is 2.5. 6mm is a quarter inch, etc. Just very minor fudging the numbers. Think I got overly explanatory - apologies.
Sand in Mooresville, NC - in the middle of the state
My thoughts are with everyone who is close to the beaches of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina - please take care and leave your homes. My husband’s sister and her husband tried a shelter but husband has MS and the shelter didn’t work out so they are back home and ready to move up north tomorrow.
Your method is "close enough" for many purposes.
I think some of us are - or worked with - engineering types that think in thousands - or less- or an inch.
After all, quite a few people use "fingertip to nose length" to estimate "a yard."