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March 14th, 2006 | View 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.
I think this passage pretty well captures why so many knitters are enraged by Sew Fast/Sew Easy’s efforts to prevent online knitting groups from using the term.
I thought about posting this article into the “stitch and bitch” database as a personal anecdote, but decided against it, since there’s no way to independently verify the story. However, I did create a page just for media mentions and stuck it there instead.
Yvonne posted this on March 14th, 2006 @ 6:38pm in Stitch & Bitch | Permalink to "Media Mentions"
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