![]() ![]() ![]() This was a weekly meeting of the local Stitch 'n' Bitch group, a nationwide sorority whose members have rediscovered a staid craft and transformed it into a feminist fashion statement. Invariably, a knitting-disaster story followed everybody groaned and laughed, then it was back to serious discussion. The conversation, ranging that night from Iraq to female circumcision, paused whenever somebody needed help with a dropped or difficult stitch. On a quiet night this summer in a hip New York coffee house a group of young women pushed a sofa and some easy chairs into a circle near the window, settled in for the evening and took out their needles. US women are embracing the knitting needle in an odd marriage of coffee-house culture and feminist politics. ![]()
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