Dame Dingle was a wrinkled old woman who lived in Noland and enjoyed making patchwork crazy-quilts. One day, an old shepherd named Edi traded her a beautiful cloak in exchange for some rheumatism medicine. The cloak was too fine for her to wear, so she cut half of it into pieces and traded them with her quilting circle friends: Nancy Nink, Betsy Barx, Sally Sog, Molly Mitt, and Lucy Lum.