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.

  • TheRealGChuEnglish
    5•1 year ago

    Oh lordy, there’s a dice community. Perhaps making dice would be cheaper than buying them? HHAHAH! That’s what I say about knitting =P

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

      I am sadly in a position to confirm that while it is cheaper in the long run than buying proper fancy handmade dice, it’s also a RIDICULOUS amount of work 😬

      • TheRealGChuEnglish
        5•1 year ago

        Haha, exactly like knitting! A billion years ago, I saw this really cool shrug/scarf/shawl type thing. It was on clearance for $5. Tell my husband, I can totally make that! 5 years later, it’s done at a cost of about $15 =P

  • ginaEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    This is awesome, thank you! I hadn’t even thought to check for a miniatures community.

  • @myhouseonneptuneEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    I keep hoping to find a handspinning community, but no luck yet 😔

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

      Yeah I’ve been searching for one every time I do an update on this post! Not that I spin, but probably will one day we all know how that goes.

      Feel free to share your spinning here in the meantime though tbh, they’re closely enough related that I doubt anyone will be mad (and of course, you might enable some folks). Could be educational for us!

  • @ZoginaEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    Thank you! Very handy! And thank you for taking on moderator too!

  • @[email protected]English
    3•1 year ago

    There used to be a quilting community and it seems to have disappeared? I’d love to share some quilting things once in a while, I’m a bit intimidated to become an owner of a new community though… anyone else have interest?

    Edit: actually looks like you have a link that works! Ignore me!

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

      Thanks for these! I have a couple others to go in the next update too, finally someone made an origami group 😄

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

        I couldn’t find an updated community list on your profile, so I’m writing a reply to this post:

        maybe that’s blatant self-advertising, but you might want to have a look at my origami community I created a few weeks ago (since I couldn’t find any other origami community for my instance)… no drama, no politics, just simple paper folding, I promise :)

        Here’s the link: [email protected]

        If you could send me the link to the other origami community you mentioned earlier, that would be very great!