Knitting in Prague

When I first moved to Prague, I attended a workshop on how to adjust to life in the Czech Republic. I was knitting and during a break, one of the women who was running the workshop came up and talked to me. She said when she was a young girl, her mother knitted all the time. She said her mother was a great knitter and always came up with interesting patterns. Whenever she wore a new sweater to school, all the teachers would gather around her with paper and pen and take notes on the pattern and then come to school soon after in sweaters that looked just like hers. Back in the day, no one was buying patterns, they were sharing and copying when possible.