Crafts & DIY
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https://broderiepassion.over-blog.com/
Run by Vérobrode, Broderie Passion is a French-language blog dedicated to cross-stitch and embroidery, offering over 560 free downloadable stitch patterns along with photo galleries of completed works. Visitors can also follow along with the creator's personal life, garden updates, and embroidery school lessons, making it a warm and richly stocked resource for needlework enthusiasts.
https://pinebank.neocities.org/
Porcupine's personal corner of the web, the Pinebank Vault is a cheerful work-in-progress site featuring slice-of-life blogging and a variety of hands-on hobbies including knitting, embroidery, writing, and coding. Built on Hugo and hosted on Neocities, it has a cozy neighborhood feel with links to friends' sites and a Halloween seasonal theme.
http://floridaquiltnetwork.com/
Mary-Jeanine Ibarguen's Florida Quilt Network is a comprehensive resource for quilters across Florida, featuring guild listings, local shops, longarm quilters, classes, and a newsletter published since 1999. Visitors can discover quilting events, take virtual tours of the gallery, sign up for classes like the Birthstone Gems course, and even find potluck recipes.
http://www.cottonpatchquilt.com/
The Cotton Patch Quilt Guild of Greenville, Texas has been preserving the heritage of quilting since 1991, offering monthly meetings with guest speakers, trunk shows, and technique demonstrations. Members can access newsletters, workshop listings, a library, and a quilting links directory through this community-focused site.
https://afewscraps.com/
Christina Cameli's quilting blog covers free-motion quilting techniques, design inspiration, and tutorials for sewists of all levels. The site features a rich archive of posts dating back to 2008, along with free-motion design galleries, wedge quilt tutorials, and links to her video course on choosing quilting designs.
http://knittingspinningsewingcrocheting.blogspot.com/2014/12/i-made-up-my-own-pattern-needle-us-4-3.html
Marion Naylor's long-running craft blog covers knitting, spinning, sewing, and crocheting, with original patterns like this handmade mitten design using beaded embellishments. The site includes a personal Etsy shop, a list of favorite fiber arts sellers, and years of archived posts dating back to 2007.
http://songofthegreatlakes.com/
Song of the Great Lakes is a woodworking and luthiery site dedicated to banjo building, with step-by-step construction instructions, tool reviews, and shop tips covering everything from box joint jigs to radial arm saw alignment. Hobbyist woodworkers and aspiring instrument builders will find practical guides on chisels, bandsaws, workbenches, and the specialized craft of building a banjo from scratch.
https://misandricrat.neocities.org/
Meri, a 29-year-old enby rat building their first Neocities site, shares a colorful mix of crochet projects, zines, J-pop, anime, Asian cinema, and personal manifestos as part of a post-PhD creative rebirth. The site is packed with charming old-web aesthetics, crossword puzzles, blinkies, and a warm queer-friendly vibe that makes it a delightful corner of the indie web.
https://okayseurat.bearblog.dev/
Sarah, known online as okayseurat, keeps a cozy personal blog where she writes about everyday hobbies like knitting and cycling after rediscovering her love of writing. Posts range from knitting work-in-progress updates to reflections on learning to ride a bike again, giving the site a warm, slice-of-life feel.
https://threads-n-patches.blogspot.com/
Run by a crafter who goes by Wandering Minstrel, this blog chronicles sewing and quilting projects including tooth-fairy pillows, quilts of valor, and applique work. Posts blend personal family moments with detailed project write-ups, fabric choices, and links to patterns, making it a warm and relatable resource for home sewists.