Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site duke.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!mcnc!duke!nlt From: nlt@duke.UUCP (N. L. Tinkham) Newsgroups: net.tv.drwho Subject: The Knitting Needle Debate (Re: Doctors scarf patterns) Message-ID: <6313@duke.UUCP> Date: Thu, 19-Sep-85 11:43:28 EDT Article-I.D.: duke.6313 Posted: Thu Sep 19 11:43:28 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 21-Sep-85 05:17:34 EDT Organization: Duke University Lines: 30 >> The pattern for the second scarf posted by m. baker calls for >> >>> Size 7 metric needles. Don't know the American size. >> >> The corresponding American size is 6. >> > ... and a previous poster said it was American size 10. > > Does anyone know the *real* answer (i.e., did anyone check it out > before posting)? My "authority" for claiming that American size 6 corresponds to British size 7 is the pattern as transmitted to me by The New Fantasy Shop (5651 W. Belmont Ave., Chicago, IL 60634). I received from them a xeroxed copy of the pattern printed on BBC stationery (thus accurate, presumably) which referred to U.K. sizes and colors only; handwritten on the same document (thus, I assume, added by someone at the shop) was a note saying that the U.S. size was 6 and also suggesting appropriate yarn colors (as they might be labelled in American shops). So...I didn't just pull something out of the air, but neither do I have a reference book giving the complete mapping. One piece of information would help here: in the U.K., is a needle of size N larger or smaller than one of size N + 1? Anyone in Britain who knits should be able to answer that for me. Please respond to me by mail only, and I will post anything interesting to the net. N. L. Tinkham duke!nlt