Knitting and crafts groups or get togethers

[MaybeDoctor]

Does anyone here belong to a knitting or crafts group, perhaps WI?

I enjoy a bit of crochet and am thinking it would be nice to sit there, in mostly female company, sharing our crafts and chatting.

Does anyone else understand/know the sort of group I am thinking of?

I'm in an all female book club, but there are tons of craft/knitting groups about that my friends are members of.
They probably don't stipulate all female, but I think they all are.

I am also a crafty feminist - I was a part of a group and it was good for a while. but we got very little actual crafting done in the end.

There are library based groups in most towns, but they tend to be much older women - who are great, but I don't have much in common with them. But if I am stuck on my crochet, they are able to offer the best advice!

I second the try your library suggestion, OP. Lots of them about!

We have one in the church café. Round here you can put something in a community mag, and people will join in. Church loves it and you only need buy a cup of tea.

Start at your nearest Women's Centre.

Both our local wool shops do a knit and natter. Ages range from 20 -80.

The average age at the local WI is 35. Scour facebook, ask around and try it out, you may be surprised.

Ask at your local wool shop - ours has that many going on because they keep getting oversubscribed that they're expanding the shop again to fit more space in for their "knitters lounge"... for some strange reason they refused to let me name it their "hookers lounge".

Yes I belong to a craft group and the WI. It is nice to sit in mainly female company. I do find that when the transwomen in the group is present, the conversation is very different.

It must vary by group. My DB was in a stitch and bitch for a while and they had a very mixed membership. It was in an area with lots of students though.

I go to one at my local library. It’s mainly woman, sometimes new mums come for a bit until their babies start being mobile, mainly aged from 40 - 85. We had a man come a couple of times, but he didn’t craft, and was quite irritating but it was his personality.
I also joined a group of knitters in the next town who had a group project. We knitted a pictorial map of the town.
There’s other groups at local yarn shops, I think these can feel a bit cliquey. There was one happening when I visited a yarn shop and they were all sat around a central table making it difficult to look at the wool.

The knitted map sounds gorgeous!

I'm in a sewing group, and also in the WI. I've never known a man to attend a meeting at either, although we do sometimes get male speakers to give talks at the WI. When he goes and it's only the women left, the nature of the chatting seems to be more relaxed.

The sewing group is particularly friendly as we are all sat around a big table hand sewing and talking.We get to see what everyone else is making, and show off our finished items. There is always someone to help with advice for a project and it's a lovely supportive group. We all get to know what's happening locally when we're there and it's a cosy nurturing atmosphere.

I go to a knitting group every week - if you are anywhere near Paisley, @MaybeDoctor*, I’ll happily take you along and introduce you.

It is the highlight of my week - I have lovely friends there, I always enjoy myself, I love seeing the things other people are making, and the yarn they have bought, and the other women in the group are so generous with their time, help, inspiration and compliments. And we have coffee and freshly made scones.

• • people can come and knit, or crochet or embroider or sew, or just have a , some and a blether.

Try Ravelry for a knitting group.

Mine is great - meets in a bar one evening a week. Almost entirely female, although we get the occasional man. Age range is pretty wide - 20s to 60s, I think, and a mixture of parents and non-parents.

I go to a sewing group once a month where we take our projects, machines etc. and just chat and help each other. We usually meet from 10-4 on a Saturday with people dropping in and out.

I know that there is a craft group at my library once a week as well but I can't go.

Meant to ask roughly where in the country are you and what is it it that floats your boat? Sewing, knitting, crochet etc?

I go to knitting groups at my local wool shop. Tonight's group is "Thirsty Thursday" lol, we knit and drink wine

I'm part of a spinners & weavers group, but they are inclusive of all fibre craft including felting, knitting, crochet, and cross stitch.

It's. The. BEST.

Everyone should join one. The average age is about 70 (I'm under 30) and it's just the nicest place to hang out. They're full of tips and stories about everything under the sun.

Everyone gets whatever they're working on, sits around a table, pay 50 cents if you want a cuppa and a biscuit, and just have a chat.

We're going on a road tip to a wool show next month and I can't tell you how pumped I am for it :)

Is Ravelrey still a good place to look for things like this?
There used to be something in my local Borders books, then it closed.
There was one where I used to live, in a fabric shop, but then I moved.
I don't talk much about crafty things with anyone anymore.
And plus I have a spare spinning wheel that needs a home.

Oh darn! I thought this was 'secret code meeting'. Has been used.

Ssh. Snitches get stitches.

I am in one. It's brilliant. There are some amazingly talented and unassuming women there.
We meet in a cafe and every so often a man wanders in and starts mansplaining dressmaking to us based on his having once sewn on a button or something, but there are no actual male members.

WI?

Oh I would LOVE this - alas I am in foreign climes :(