This is another poncho, similar to the ones I mentioned in a one of my previous posts, here. As I recalled in that post, back in the 80's it was called a Cape. Just the other day, while chatting with a knitter friend about one of her ponchos, she said the word "poncho" is dated and referred to it as Cape or Capelet. What goes around comes back around!
The model here is a niece, daughter of cousin R who I talked about in this post. I feel that Chitra Baneerji Divakaruni must have been thinking about the two of us when she was writing certain paragraphs in the initial chapters of her novel Sister Of My Heart. We can relate to each other in a lot of aspects. We are the same age, both grew up in India, both made our homes in the US, both work for the same company, both have two daughters. We are there, just a ping away, to reassure each other every time we second guess ourselves as we nurture our girls.
It was wonderful to watch the kids connect with each other during our visit to WI last summer. All four of them mailed hand written letters after getting back home from the vacation. I heard that the sisters were occupied the entire day writing and fine tuning their letters before they gave it to mom to mail, Sonu marveling at what she had produced. Many skype sessions filled what was remaining of the summer holidays before school started. Sonu is a sweet heart, guess you can tell from the picture :)
Nice one Shobha!
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