Currently out walking the dog in the fields. The sun's come out, the petrichor is in full swing, it's a lovely morning. We've seen a green woodpecker. Edit: dog rolled in fox poo. Boo
Off to a party to see some old friends later. Yay.
Happy pooch
So cute!
Absolutely no obligations today other than to avoid getting dressed, eat snacks, and lounge around on the couch doing whatever tf I want. Which is mostly gonna be game dev and crochet, I think. Maybe a bit of sewing if I can be arsed to get off said couch and go upstairs, but that seems unlikely.
No rain due here til tomorrow night but it is at least much cooler today so I'll take it!
This sounds great. Care to share the elevator pitch for the game (or crochet) you're working on?
No rain here as of yet, and I don't mean to be miserable about the sun but we really need some rain!
Also off to the library to do crafts and get books out this morning, not sure what else today brings maybe prep for father's day tomorrow.
What are you up to?
Ooh what kind of crafts? Our library used to have a knit and natter, but it only happened at like 10am on a Wednesday so effectively banned working-age folks. And now even that is gone. Bah.
It's a shame when there aren't outside of working time options. I often wonder when we are supposed to engage with all this stuff?
We have a kids craft on a Saturday at the library, my kid is currently making a paper fish. We take a lot of paper craft stuff home with us!
You might be able to find a knit and natter group on Facebook, I know there are some around us that do the post box toppers.
Honestly I made one friend through Ravelry years ago, and that seems to be about it around here in terms of crafters who are under retirement age. Such is life in small towns! I think there is a lot more stuff for young kids on a weekend though, basically the demographic here is "parents" and "old people" and if you're neither you're out of luck!
At least there's online though. I'm loving seeing all the new crafty communities popping up on here, just hope they can get enough content to keep going 🤞
You are absolutely right it does seem that more stuff is either parent or retirement age focused!
Have you found many good craft communities on the fediverse? I haven't seen much creative content on kbin so far?
Not sure what you're into but....deep breath...you asked for it.
!lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works (direct link) is a brand new one for cross stitch & embroidery, needs more people to join!
!crochet@lemmy.ca (direct link) is the most active crochet one I've found, some nice convos happening in there already.
!knitting@lemmy.world (direct link) again there's a few but this seems most active.
For sewing there seem to be two trying to get off the ground but neither seem super active. I'll probably just pick one at random and start posting in it if that doesn't change but they're !sewing@lemmy.world (direct link) and !sewing@sh.itjust.works (direct link)
!leathercraft@lemmy.ca (direct link) isn't something I do personally but I do enjoy perving over their projects anyway.
Erm...if I find any more I'll come back and update this lol. Kind of one a one-woman mission to build a good list, then hopefully convince the various mods to sticky it so people who find one of these places can then find all the others too.
(Also p.s. I don't know how to format these links for Kbin so sorry if they don't work. But hopefully I've made it a bit easier for any other Lemmings who stumble across this comment.)
Oh my god, thank you for such a comprehensive list! I will be checking out each and every one of them a little later on.
I feel like everyone really t needs to pull together and try and build all these communities to get this whole place rolling. Thriving more niche communities are vital to that.
Yep absolutely! I can't commit to running one myself but can at least do my part by being a patient explorer (and insufferable shill) of new communities lol.
I think you should post your group collection to the front page in someway. We absolutely need to be pushing crafts and creative groups to the forefront. Thank you again!
Honestly not even sure what you mean by "front page", maybe that's a Kbin thing?
To be honest I'm not even sure either, but maybe a place that promotes groups and magazines.
Well I shilled all those groups on my Mastodon too, you never know :D
A friendly place to chat.
No politics please. Don't be a dick.