Translating

I’m pleased to report that my last Nuna swatch has finally finished drying, and it measures 23½ sts per 4". I figure that’s close enough to the target of 24: if my Swirl turns out a tad larger than intended, so be it. Now all that stands in the way of diving into the Swirl is finishing the Estonian shawl – I don’t dare start another large project before the current one is done.

BTW, for those of you who may have been wondering, I always think of needle sizes in terms of millimeters, not US sizing. The habit stems from having learned to knit while an exchange student in Chile, and then getting really into knitting several years later while living in Australia – two places where all needles were sized in metric, of course. If someone says “US size 6” or some such to me, I have to mentally translate to the metric sizing. It’s just as well, I figure. Metric sizing makes so much more sense than US sizing – I mean, what genius picked the sequence “10, 10½, 11, 13” over “10, 11, 12, 13”?

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