The Upper Slobbovian Ladies' Knitting Circle representative made her way to the Slob Mountain symposium, which was very far away, bringing with her all of the best examples of traditional Upper Slobbovian patterns as well as the new Old Slobbovian pattern, along with some strikingly beautiful combinations of Upper and Old Slobbovian patterns. She came prepared to share her patterns and to discuss the unification of the Upper Slobbovian Ladies' Knitting Circle with Lower Slobbovian knitters who wanted to do traditional patterns.
She was rather surprised when the Symposium actually turned out to be all about presenting the International Upper Slobbovian Ladies' Knitting Circle as the one and only legitimate source of Upper Slobbovian family patterns! And quite a show it was, this symposium. There were souvenirs, booklets, teeshirts, sweatshirts, and coffee mugs, all featuring traditional Upper Slobbovian family patterns, mostly downloaded from the old website in Upper Slobbovia! There was even an Upper Slobbovian Knitting Manual from the new website, half of which was copied from an old manual published by the Upper Slobbovian ladies many years ago, but the other half was composed of bizarre new instructions made up by the Slob Mountain Inner Circle, including one strange one that said, "it is a distinguishing feature of Upper Slobbovian knitting that the patterns must be as ugly as possible."
Posted by jjeffrey at November 5, 2003 09:14 PM