I’m a metric girl – millimetre, centimetres, metres is what I learnt and use. Enter the sewing world where it’s (mostly) imperial – inches, yards, feet and it’s enough to make my head spin. I’m forever looking at my tape measure to check the conversion. I can’t picture 1 inch (ok maybe 1 inch), but 10 inches, 30 inches, 1 yard? Is that as long as my laptop, or as long as my kitchen table? I like to visualise size and imperial makes it difficult for me.
You can imagine my surprise when I was told today by the lovely ladies at GJ Fabrics that it is illegal for them to have an imperial tape measure to ‘officially’ cut fabric for customers. How extraordinary! It must be metric, which was music to my ears. But with patterns generally quoting imperial measurements, surely it must be annoying for them having to convert to metric.
Maybe one day we will all live in a metric world.
