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Zero, since your sister is so short, this ought to work perfectly for her. You'll have to experiment with a tape measure as to dimensions, though.

The easiest way to create a cocoon like this is to finish the ends of a long piece of fabric, then bring the sides together at each end and stitch down along the long ends, leaving an opening for the body. The arms are slipped through the long ends, and the width of the fabric then hangs from the neck down.

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Does this make sense? I'm afraid we will lose the formatting in my graphic. But basically, you want the piece of fabric long enough that it will equal at least her measurement from wrist to wrist, while her arms are outspread. The width is determined by the width of your fabric; the wider the better, since it sort of drapes.

Good luck! Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

Zero wrote:

I don't have a pattern or instructions for you, but would like to remind you that your memory is just fine. The problem is that we have so much in there. It's like the difference between a library of 100 books and one with thousands of books. It takes longer to find the one you want. Given time, the memory will percolate to the top.

As a matter of fact, I distinctly remember having the same sort of problem 35 and 40 years ago, as a youngster of 30 or so. Usually it was trying to remember where I put something - like the car keys. I still do that one from time to time.

Toddlers have the best memories, they have so little to remember that their recall is very good. ;-)

To me your drawing looks like this

(I love that pattern, I could live in those shirts all summer, and I probalby will!)

Thanks Joanne, I needed to be reminded of that. LOL

zero

Almost, Michelle, but not quite. In my drawing, there is no neck opening; the only opening is for the front of the body, with the seams aligned along the fronts of the arms. It's open all down the front, more like a shawl, to make a sort of pegnoir. When Zero mentioned a "cocoon", this is what came to mind. A friend of mine used to wear one of these, and it can be very elegant in a sheer, flowy fabric.

Karen Maslowski >> Zero, since your sister is so short, this ought to work perfectly for her.

Yes! That's it and it _is_ simple. Thank you so much, Karen, this should go together in no time.

Great group; nice people here.

zero

Oh, so that's it, I've wondered why my memory is slipping more and more--I will have to remind my DC and DIG why the next time some of them mention it. Emily

I have a very simple memory theory..........If you forget and nobody else remembers either it probably wasn't that important. If you forget and everyone reminds you it obviously was but now that they have it didn't matter that you forgot..........problem solved.

The older we get, the more we have to remember. It's sort of like a library with 100 books vs. a library with thousands of books. It's all there, just takes longer to find it. For proof, look at a toddler. They have excellent recall, because they have so little to remember. For us older folk, well.....we don't have a card catalog, so it can take a while for the right memory to surface at the desk.

OK, now this is clearly senility.

I think my mind is more like a bowl that is constantly having flour added to it. When I was younger, everything fit in it, but now that I'm older, it seems like the bowl is just about full and a lot of new things won't fit in and just fall out the sides. I can tell you the name of every teacher I had in elementary school, but the name of the librarian that I currently volunteer with, weekly, at my son's school? No idea. I look at his ID badge ever week.

I saw something recently -- and I hope it wasn't here! -- about Johnny Carson talking to an old lady in a nursing home for about an hour, after which he asked her, "Do you know who I am?" She told him, "No, but if you ask at the desk, they can tell you."