Stitchy 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.
3D PRINTING
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
Bookbinding
COSPLAY
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
CROCHET
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
CROSS STITCH & EMBROIDERY
- This one you’re on! But also…
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
DICEMAKING
KNITTING
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
LASER CUTTING
LEATHERCRAFT
MODELS & MINIATURES
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (models in general)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (dollhouse miniatures)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (tabletop gaming miniatures)
POTTERY
SEWING & QUILTING
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (reduce waste through sewing)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
SOAPMAKING
TATTING
WOODWORKING
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (hand tool woodworking)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin
MISC
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (cross-post your crafts here!)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (a celebration of lace, in any craft)
- [email protected] - Lemmy / Kbin (NOTE: not accessible to users on lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works)
Posted with mod permission & I’ll keep it updated as I find more relevant groups / smaller groups merge etc.
Craft on, people. Craft on 🙂
Not sure if this would be something anyone else would be interested in, but could you add stuff for cosplay? That’s usually where my craft energy ends up XD
First of all apologies for the late reply, your comment was a casualty of the .world federation issue and I didn’t stumble across it until now!
I’ve had a look around for cosplay groups, found a few Lemmy communities but only one with any posts whatsoever so I’ve added that one, and there’s also a fledgling Kbin magazine too. For now I expect it’s worth cross-posting to both just to see which one gets the action! :)
p.s. also just for everyone in general - yes I know the latest Lemmy update means we don’t need the local links anymore, but I’ve left them as-is because I’m not sure if all the apps have caught up yet.
Awesome! Thank you