Last year I stitched the Greenhouse Of Oddities by Lola Crow. Now I want to stitch The Deadly Aquarium.

I want to do this on the same count fabric as the greenhouse so they "match", and I didn't write it down anywhere but having counted the squares inside an inch several times, I've arrived at 26ct. I even measured the width of the whole design which I know from the pattern is 218 stitches, and it is just under 8 1/2 inches, which is consistent with it being 26ct.

HOWEVER!

When I looked online to buy some 26ct, I could not find it. 25ct and 28ct seem common, but 26ct is nowhere to be found. It does not seem to exist in any store, inside my country (New Zealand) or internationally. I even tried going to Zweigart's site to see a list of all their products but just got hit with a 404.

If it were 25ct, the design width would be closer to 8 7/8 inches, which this clearly is not.

What is going on? Is this a conspiracy? Have I travelled from an alternate dimension? Am I going mad? Please let me know!