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Entries about the “Stitch ‘n Bitch” trademark dispute between Debbie Stoller, Sew Fast/Sew Easy, and knitters nationwide. Mostly I talk about how Elissa Meyrich is delusional.
Movement on the Stitch & Bitch Front
April 7th, 2006 | No Comments
The Deb Stoller side has submitted a motion to amend their original petition to cancel. It includes many of the beliefs that knitters have held for the last year or so, that SFSE has made false claims about the origin and use of the “Stitch and Bitch Cafe” mark, and that both their registration of the mark and their sudden enforcement of the mark were opportunistic.
Media Mentions
March 14th, 2006 | No Comments
An anonymous guest user at Free to Stitch, Free to Bitch posted an article by Ardeana Hamlin about the controversy. Thanks, anonymous guest user! Hamlin writes:
My group, which has no Internet presence, has called itself Stitch ‘n Bitch - no capital N - for at least 15 years. By 1997 the founders of my group already had been stitching and bitching for a decade. For us, Stitch ‘n Bitch is not only a name, the way we identify ourselves as a group, it’s a description of what we do, and have done all these years, when we meet. We knit, sew, crochet, embroider (stitching) and talk about stuff - children, family, aging, empty nests, new babies, weddings, deaths, divorces, annoying situations, triumphs, tribulations and self-re-inventions (bitching). Our collective identity as a group cannot be separated from what we do with needles, yarn and fabric. Stitching and bitching is tightly interwoven into the friendships we have nurtured all these years. The phrase, stitch ‘n bitch, is felted into us.
“Stitch and Bitch” Database
March 13th, 2006 | No Comments
The next time someone falls for Elissa Meyrich’s line that she invented the term “stitch and bitch”, you can just direct them to this handy-dandy searchable database of published “stitch and bitch” references.
