With my arm stretched back nose to fingertip is a yard - a metre is
fingertip to opposite shoulder.
Brenda
On 30 Jul 2007, at 17:32, Helen Bell wrote:
I too learnt (more by copying) to measure/estimate a yard from nose to
fingertip from Mum. That's kind of hard to do when your not fully
grown
and when you're in a metric system (since a meter is longer than a yard
by 3"), but now I'm back in an 'imperial' world, I use nose to finger
tip for guestimating how much ribbon yardage or fabric I might need
when
I'm in the store.
Cheers,
Helen, Aussie lacemaker in Denver
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