Once there was a Ladies' Knitting Circle in Upper Slobbovia. It had very few members, all of whom tended to their own knitting, which was of old, traditional Upper Slobbovian family patterns. The original patterns had come from Old Slobbovia almost a century before. Nobody was quite sure whether the Old Slobbovians were still knitting those patterns in the old country. Also, because the patterns had been copied and repeated often over the years, no one could be entirely sure that those were quite the same as they had been a century before, either. Then one day someone brought a handsome pattern back from Old Slobbovia! It was very similar to the oldest traditional Upper Slobbovian patterns, so the Upper Slobbovian Ladies' Knitting Circle used that pattern in their knitting and carried on, pleased at how well the new pattern fitted in with the ones they had always used.
Posted by jjeffrey at November 3, 2003 07:10 PM