Lily sugar n cream Granny squares bag Gauge Help

[catwoman]

Hi. I was wondering if you guys can help me with this pattern.Its from the lily sugar n cream granny sqaures bag .I am having a hard time with the gauge on this pattern.It says Gauge -One Motif =9 cm/ 3,5 INCHES? I didnt think a measuring tape goes to 3.5 inches?And what is 9 cms?The measurements on the pattern says APPROX 23 CM/9 INCHES PER SQAURE?

I need you guts help with this one.

 

[Granny Square]

cms = centimeters.  A lot of times you'll see a gauge swatch as 4 inches, or 10 centimeters for example. 

2.54 centimeters=1 inch.  23 cm divided by 2.54 = 9.055 inches

I'm in the US, but a lot of times I like to measure in centimeters because it's much easier than inches to do the math (decimals easier than fractions in fourth, eighth, sixteenths of an inch)

 

 

[Tampa Doll]

Each square is 3 1/2 inches each. I am not good with the cm.'s 

Here is where you can go to convert inches to cm.s  https://www.convertunits.com/from/inches/to/cm

I hope I helped.  The .5 is 1/2 way between each number on the tape measure.

 

[catwoman]

 Hi. Thanks guys for the awaesome help now i can go back making the squares for the bag.

[Granny Square]

I took a scan of a 6" ruler which had cms on the opposite side, and 'flipped' the cm side so they all read in the same direction.  The numbers on the centimeter (metric) side are cms, the little marks are mms (tenths of centimeters; centimeter is 1/100 of a meter, mm is 1/1000 of a meter

[redrosesdz]

GS, you come up with the most ingenious visual aides! 

[Granny Square]

Heh, thanks.  Actually I'm always annoyed that the rulers don't come this way in the first place; I think it would give us in the US a better rough idea of the relationship between the 2.  (after using metric all my working career, I really wish the US would have stepped out of the back woods and converted to metric decades ago with the rest of the world, but that's another story)