Knitting friends! Since makers tend to make more than one sort of thing, and we crafters need to stick together, here’s a list of fellow creative communities for your navigation pleasure.

For each craft I’ll include the current most active community first as well as alternatives, and add each with their full URL as well as local links for Lemmy and Kbin users respectively.

I hope it’s useful!

3D PRINTING

BOOKBINDING

COSPLAY

CROCHET

CROSS STITCH & EMBROIDERY

DICEMAKING

KNITTING

LASER CUTTING

LEATHERCRAFT

MODELS & MINIATURES

POTTERY

SEWING & QUILTING

SOAPMAKING

TATTING

WOODWORKING

MISC

Suggestions welcome, and I’ll do my best to keep this updated as I find more relevant groups / smaller groups merge etc.

Craft on, people. Craft on 🙂

  • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
    12•1 year ago

    I’ve been systematically getting this list of crafty communities pinned in various places, so apologies if you’ve already seen it. But only with mod permission, which was never forthcoming for /c/knitting (we’ve since learned this was due to inactivity).

    After yesterday’s post by the lemmy.world admins I’ve applied for and been granted moderator role for the community, but my new status hasn’t quite federated out to all servers yet. So as my first and most important act, I hereby give myself permission to post this list 😎

    Will get it pinned once that option is available to me, hah!

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      Thank you taking on the moderator role! I mostly lurk here as I have yet to knit something worth posting

      • @[email protected]OPMEnglish
        4•1 year ago

        First of all, no worries. But secondly and way more importantly, all knitting is worth posting!

        Doesn’t matter if you’re new and make mistakes, doesn’t matter if you knit the same baby cardigan over and over in different colours, doesn’t matter if all your projects are simple household dishcloths, especially doesn’t matter if your scarf is twice as wide at one end than the other.

        You’re making stuff with your own bare hands! Be proud!

        (now if you’ll excuse me I need to figure out why my phone keeps changing “doesn’t” to “Diane”)

      • @[email protected]English
        1•1 year ago

        Cool samples and small skill-building projects are all worth posting. Whatever gives you joy and enthusiasm.

        While most dedicated knitters just like the experience of knitting, having a goal project can be a helpful scaffold. The problem is how to choose a project that’s not too big or ambitious to start.

        That’s why traditionally children were started with scarves and potholders. Hats and socks came next. These are all still great. Crochet now has animaguri which is a far better starter option than doilies.

        Also , knitting for yourself is good advice.

        A confession - I was one of those young women who attempted a sweater for a boyfriend in my early twenties. I was warned it was a relationship killer, too much pressure on the romantic partner. And sure enough the relationship ended before the last big front piece was finished.

        Anyway, I can’t say how many samples and small projects I have knit over the years developing technique and just seeing what a new kind of or unusual yarn will produce. I’ve recently got back into knitting and crocheting after a hiatus due to family reasons. Looking at my stash, I was surprised to see just how many samples or small test projects were stored with the yarns. I found an unfinished wool scarf that I decided to complete just to get my rhythm back.