Marianna the term Stitch and Bitch has been used on the campus's of US woman's colleges since the late 1930's for groups of women who get to gether to do needle work.
this included fine needle work (embroidery, needlepoint, tatting, and other thread work) and generally needlework, (mending, darning, plain sewing and knitting)
starting about 10 years ago, as young woman again discovered the joys of knitting, it been used for many on campus and off campus groups--most, but not all of them, devoted to knitting circles.
5 years-with the the publication of Debbie Stollers book Stitch and Bitch and the follow up book Stitch and Bitch Nation, it has been used widely for the name of internet groups.
Last week, when threatened with legal action, Yahoo closed/deleted almost every group that either used Stitch and Bitch in its name, or even in the description of the group. My group (LICKnits) did not use Stitch and Bitch in the title, only in the description, and we too were 'zapped')
I live in queens (a borough of NYC)--but its a big one 110 square miles! the internet (specifically LICKnits) was one way i kept in touch with other knitters in queens. -there was another SnB group in queens, and there were at least 3 SnB's in manhattan, 2 in brooklyn, 1 in the Bronx and 1 on staten island!--NY is a big city.. all of these group were independent, but there were some overlaps in membership.
(there might have been more groups, these were the ones i knew about since they all had Yahoo sites, (and all of these sites are gone!)
We did not sell anything, we were a small group (apx 25) who got to gether to knit together.
