Metric Equivalency Chart

Sometimes when beading or making jewelry you'll run into a pattern that uses metric measurements rather that the U.S. unit of measurement. In that case, below is a chart to get you started with conversions from inches to centimeters and yards to meters. For lengths exceeding 30 inches and 10 yards or all half numbers see the links below.

Inches to Centimeters

1-in 2.5 cm
2 5.1
3 7.6
4 10.2
5 12.7
6 15.2
7 17.8
8 20.3
9 22.9
10 25.4
11 27.9
12 30.5
13 33.0
14 35.6
15 38.1
16 40.6
17 43.2
18 45.7
19 48.3
20 50.8


Yards to Meters

1 yard to 0.91 meters
2 1.83
3 2.74
4 3.66
5 4.57
6 5.49
7 6.40
8 7.32
9 8.23
10 9.14




World Wide Metric at http://www.worldwidemetric.com/measurements.html
Unit-Conversion at http://www.unit-conversion.info/metric.html