Greetings leathercrafters! 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
Bookbinding
COSPLAY
- !cosplay@lemmy.blahaj.zone - Lemmy / Kbin
- !Cosplay@kbin.social - Lemmy / Kbin
- !cosplay@lemmy.world - Lemmy / Kbin
CROCHET
CROSS STITCH & EMBROIDERY
- !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works - Lemmy / Kbin (both cross stitch & embroidery in general)
- !embroidery@discuss.tchncs.de - Lemmy / Kbin
- !crossstitch@kbin.social - Lemmy / Kbin
DICEMAKING
KNITTING
- !knitting@lemmy.world - Lemmy / Kbin
- !knitting@feddit.de - Lemmy / Kbin
- !knitting@kbin.social - Lemmy / Kbin
LASER CUTTING
MODELS & MINIATURES
- !modelmakers@lemmy.ml - Lemmy / Kbin (models in general)
- !dollhouse@lemmy.world - Lemmy / Kbin (dollhouse miniatures)
- !tabletopminis@lemmy.world - Lemmy / Kbin (tabletop gaming miniatures)
POTTERY
SEWING & QUILTING
- !sewing@lemmy.world - Lemmy / Kbin (sewing in general)
- !sewingrepairing@sh.itjust.works - Lemmy / Kbin (reduce waste through sewing)
- !sewing@sh.itjust.works - Lemmy / Kbin
- !quilting@lemmy.world - Lemmy / Kbin
SOAPMAKING
TATTING
WOODWORKING
- !woodworking@lemmy.ca - Lemmy / Kbin
- !bodgers@lemmy.ml - Lemmy / Kbin (hand tool woodworking)
- !beginner_woodworking@lemmy.ml - Lemmy / Kbin
MISC
- !imadethis@lemm.ee - Lemmy / Kbin (cross-post your crafts here!)
- !Lace@kbin.social - Lemmy / Kbin (a celebration of lace, in any craft)
- !creative@beehaw.org - 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 🙂
You’re very welcome! For the local Lemmy links you can use
/c/community@instance
which makes a relative link from whichever home instance someone is on.The only issue with that is it’ll give a 404 not found error if your home instance hasn’t indexed that community yet, in which case you’ll need to fall back on searching for it the old fashioned way to subscribe.
Someone from Kbin kindly let me know that it should work the same for them but with an “m”, so
/m/community@instance
but I might have found a bug with that and need to get my Kbin-using husband to help me figure it out, so those links might update later.Trying my best to make it easy for people but it’s not straightforward! 😅