eimay

I finished a machine embroidered design on linen and want to make it into a pillow. The directions I have for the envelope pillow called for a piece of fabric 19x15. I wanted a smaller pillow and wanted to reduce the long side to 15. I got stuck trying to figure this out. We were at dinner that evening,so I thought, I'll ask the high school/college ages servers to figure it out for me. It became pretty funny as they would all start the calculation and say, "I can't figure it out." One came up with the answer of 19. I know how she did it, but it didn't make sense to me that if I was reducing it, how could it come on larger. I decided to let it rest, and if I couldn't figure it out, I'd ask my nephew (a computer guru). Well, the light bulb went on. I figured it out, and didn't embarrass myself to my nephew. Just for fun, can you figure it out?