As in bi-stitch-ual. I didn’t come up with it though, there’s a very popular subreddit by that name, and one whose presence I’ve sorely missed since moving away. While there are already a bunch of needlecraft communities in the fediverse, as far as I could tell, most of them are dedicated to specific popular crafts (knitting/ crochet/ cross-stitch/etc). That leaves a void for folks interested in, say, ply-split braiding. Or combinations of crafts, like knitted garments with tatted trim.

Also, since PieFed isn’t exactly a 1-for-1 Lemmy clone, I figured it could use some of it’s own versions of communities anyway.

  • cabbage@piefed.socialEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Thanks for settting up camp here!

    I’m just a very slow amateur knitter and I haven’t taken off enough time to do that lately either, so I’ll probably just lurk here while I mess around with much less ambitious projects. But I love what you’ve shared already - it’s incredibly inspiring, even if it’s so far beyond my skill level it’s not even funny.

    And it’s very cool to learn a bit about different traditional techniques!