Proud multicrafter, making cool stuff and all over the Fediverse like a rash. Find my various stuff at https://linksta.cc/@thegiddystitcher
Gamedev alter ego: @TeaHands@lemmy.world
Yeah I’m trying to remember how we used to do it (the last time I went through a normal checkout with a full shop was probably 10 years ago) and this seems right.
Gotta have the heavy stuff handy so you can put it straight into the bottom of the bags. Anything else is wasting time!
Alas, not really! I have a cheap shuttle and am still trying to get the hang of “the flip” but I’ll get it eventually. I did manage a sort of wonky snowflake but that’s about it so far. Trouble is, as you know, all the other hobbies getting in the way 😄
Currently working on cross stitching a dragon from the Discworld books, knitting some crazy speckly socks and a shawl that is way behind where it needs to be to be finished on time, and planning various sewing projects. RIP my free time.
Just left another comment with links to some of the more active craft communities on here, we’d love to see what you’re working on if you ever want to share!
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 !knitting@lemmy.world, !crochet@lemmy.ca, !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works, !sewing@lemmy.world etc for specific crafts.
For the crafts a bit too niche to have their own active community, !imadethis@lemm.ee loves to see completed projects!
Gonna tag @DharmaCurious@startrek.website and @OftenWrong@startrek.website too because I feel like a lot of folks don’t realise how much craft stuff we have on here!
I’ve taught a few people to crochet and all it really takes is patience, and and accepting that you’re going to feel like you’ve somehow got both too many and also not enough hands for the first little while. There’s no shortage of tutorials online so it’s just a question of finding a beginner one that clicks with you and going from there.
And if you get stuck, need to ask newbie questions, or just want to show off the first few wonky rows of stitches you make to people who will understand what an achievement it is, !crochet@lemmy.ca is the community for you!
I immediately thought of tatting just because it’s kind of interesting that you can do it two such different ways with such different tools, and also because using a shuttle looks like actual witchcraft.
Copy-pasting my usual response to these threads:
I’m legally obliged to shill the various crafting communities, my two most used are !knitting@lemmy.world and !lemmy_stitch@sh.itjust.works but you can find lots more in the sticky thread in either of those.
Then there’s also !imadethis@lemm.ee which has been a bit quiet lately so if you’ve made something, go show it off!
Yep that’s how all these federated services work. Your instance can only show you stuff it already knows about, so someone needs to have been first to find and follow it.
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I’ve been known to! :cry-laughing-smilie:
I’ve actually been told multiple times that I type exactly how I talk! Once was by a boss and I don’t think he meant it as a compliment though…
Picked up the annoying milennial habit of adding 😂 to everything a couple years back when I started hanging out too much with cross stitchers on Instagram though.
This completely depends who you’re communicating with and what their level of tech literacy is, but also their level of interest in hearing the techy details. Most of the time I’m explaining it to middle-aged women who still have Facebook accounts, so that should give you an idea where I’m personally coming from.
If they’re asking specifically about the term “Fediverse”, usually because they heard me talking about it, I tell people that it’s just the name for a group of different social media type sites that all communicate with each other instead of being completely separate like the ones they’re probably familiar with. It’s like having an account on Facebook, and using it to keep up and chat with your friends on TikTok too without ever having to make an account there.
Since one of the main hurdles during big switchovers is the “oh not another account to sign up for” feeling, this on its own is a pretty big eye-opener for a lot of people in terms of why it’s better.
Then I’ll talk about what the community is like here around our shared interests (mostly fibre crafts), because that’s what people actually care about.
If they show no further interest, they still now understand more than at least 95% of people.
Some will be interested in giving it a go themselves, in which case I tell them to start with Mastodon, which is a bit like Twitter except not awful. I get them to join the default server unless they are quite techy, but let them know they don’t need to understand what that means because they’ll naturally pick it up and can easily move to another server later if they want, so it’s not a big deal decision. I’ll guide them through the basic gist, get them to make an introduction post, and use my modest reach on there to get them a few initial followers so they don’t feel like they’re shouting into the void.
The problem with most explanations is that enthusiastic nerds try to fit absolutely everything in at once. Federation, instances etc. And it’s just too much especially for a non-techy crowd. Give them the info they actually need to get started and drip-feed the rest over time.
You’re not wrong there! Yeah I didn’t mean to draw attention away from your thing, it sounds like a very different project so they’re not really competitors, just wanted to put it out there to support Fediverse artists :)
This is a cool idea and I’ll be submitting some songs as soon as I’m back on my laptop.
But in the meantime, since this thread is full of people who apparently appreciate both internet radio and the Fediverse, you should check out https://radiofreefedi.net as well! Music from actual fellow Fedizens, it’s kind of great.
Well I really liked The Shape of Water so clearly what do I know about films 😆
Possibly IT Chapter Two. We not only walked out of the cinema, we also rethought our lives entirely and cancelled our Cineworld Unlimited memberships.
I didn’t really know what I wanted to be, but in hindsight it’s mostly because I didn’t really know any options. In a small town in the 90s it was finish school, then go work in a shop (girls) or a factory (boys). That was the assumption and basically the whole career “advice” setup at my school.
So it kinda makes sense that nobody there seemed to have any ambitions.
Thankfully, I eventually found out that you’re allowed to work with computers. Maybe someone would’ve mentioned that to me earlier if I’d been male but again, 90s. I taught myself web development, made a living off that for a while, eventually had enough and pivoted into being a small-time craft YouTuber!
If I see one more article about knitting where the photos are clearly crochet, or vice versa, I swear to god…
It’s been common for a lot longer than that in the UK, we’re very lazy :D