For all you knitters out there…
Apparently you are no longer to get together to ‘Stitch and Bitch’ together thanks to an over aggressive trademark holder. If that bothers you there is a boycott going. There are many companies who seem to protect their trademarks just fine without pissing all over their fans (or in this case potential customers), I wonder what drives the stupid companies over the edge?
January 25th, 2006 at 8:34 am
I shall have nothing to call the wife’s cross stitch gathering either. Injustice! I bet I was using the phrase before the trademark holder. Stupid company indeed.
BTW, where do you find this stuff?
January 25th, 2006 at 2:48 pm
Hmmm… I’d better trademark “knit one, hurl two”
before someone else gets it.
January 29th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
From the website:
Claiming they were the very first ever to coin the phrase “Stitch and Bitch” in 1997.
Oh puh-leez. I heard the term years before that, and I’m sure it was coined way earlier, when someone figured out they rhymed. I’m betting the transition between middle and modern English.
Personally I never liked the term, because it implies women’s socializing is bitchy. I’ve been to plenty of sewing nights, sewing sessions, etc. where the conversation was cordial, enlightening and pleasant.
January 30th, 2006 at 4:54 am
Jean Inaba used the term for our sewing group, started around 1996 and I remember not liking it due to the word bitch, but thought she was ‘darned’ clever.