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If you are into this stuff I'm sure we could be virtual craft besties :)
I kinda miss this thing from 100+ years ago when women (mostly only women) gathered together and did handicrafts while sung songs or told tales and gossiped about everything :)
We do a lot of hanging out and gossiping on fedi tbf. Mastodon is really big on crafts, and on Lemmy we have places like [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] etc for specific crafts.
For the crafts a bit too niche to have their own active community, [email protected] loves to see completed projects!
Gonna tag @[email protected] and @[email protected] too because I feel like a lot of folks don't realise how much craft stuff we have on here!
I'm down to be Internet crafting buddies! :D
Also, if you're at all lefty and within a reasonably drive of a major city you can probably find a group of anarchists or communists who still do quilting bees and crafting bees. A lot of what I know I learned from people who absolutely do not look like they'd be sewing and knitting. Haha. Spike mohawks and full punk vibes, plus knitting needles and gossip. It's awesome.
:) Right now I'm back to digital crafting = programming. So nothing to write home about. I did try to find some like-minded people over here, but it's not easy here. I'm living in Las Vegas. And that means we are immigrants from dozens of different countries and basically 10% of born Americans were raised here. No history and virtually no community in this facade of a city. Probably I would have more luck in a small one gas station town :D
What are you crafting these days?
Hey, sorry I haven't replied. I switched to a different account (@[email protected]) and haven't checked this one.
I've been doing a lot of sewing. Mainly dog toys and pillows for making life a little more comfy :)
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