I’ve been hanging around the crafting Internet for a long time now, and I’ve never seen anything like this:

Sew Fast/Sew Easy Inc., a New York based company, uses aggressive legal tactics to bully small, social knitting chapters nationwide over the use of the term “Stitch and Bitch” or any variant of those three words. None of these small knitting chapters operates for profit.

You have got to be kidding me.

Here’s a case of “what are they thinking?”. They sound like a bunch of old hags, bitter that sewing hasn’t taken off with the kids today they way knitting has. Do they really think that’s good for business? The link has details of the kinds of things they’ve been doing in support of their cause. I wonder if they’ve gone after Debbie Stoller. Yeah, it was the name, guys — that’s why you’re not the darlings of the sewing revolution.

I made a special trip to SFSE once. They were small, cramped, and overpriced. You’re not missing much.

As an alternative to the lame fanny pack pattern I bought there back in early 2000, all you have to do is check out the zillions of sewn bag tutorials posted by the nice folks on Craftster.