Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Huh?

Can someone explain to me why there are some US size 2 knitting needles that are 2.75mm and some that are 3mm? And sometimes the 3mm are ones are US 2.5 (like in the Ravelry needles and hooks chart)?
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3 comments:

La Duchesse said...

I think they're half sizes.. but I could be wrong. KnitPicks lists sizes that way, too: there are two different sizes for size 1, for instance, and there's a difference of something like a quarter of a mm between them. I usually think of the second size 1 as 1.5. It's so confusing!

12:59 PM, November 03, 2009
RaeS said...

Yes, that's what I would think too. It makes it confusing for patterns sometimes because I always have to double-check my needles and make sure that the mm measurement the pattern asks for is the same as the what I'm using. I wish whoever standardizes these things would just call them 1.5 and 2.5.

5:24 PM, November 03, 2009
La Duchesse said...

Word, as they say. :P

9:14 PM, November 03, 2009

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