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Most of my friends are crafters...knitters, pretty much. I joined Ravelry years and have made long distance as well as local friends with people there. I am in two knitting guilds. One is near where I live, the other is about an hour away. Each one meets once a month. I've been in the one that is farther away since about 2 months after its inception, which was in 1988! I met the person who turned out to be my best friend ever, a lifelong friendship until she died a couple of years ago. She was my mother's age, but our friendship transcended age. I miss her every day. She was a knitter and we had so much fun together.
I have made some friends through contacts at yarn shops. I think the best way to make connections is to find places where you know that people with that shared (or those shared) interests will turn up sooner or later. Yarn shops, bead shops, and shops catering to those who do needlepoint, cross-stitch, and embroidery seem like good places to start, depending on what you do.
I know that all of the yarn shops around here have classes and most have a time every week when people get together to do what they do and share and commune. Yarn shops do this because it is a main way to boost yarn sales, but the shops I know don't require that you buy every time you attend one of those meetups.
I've also made friends with those shared interests when I've gone to conferences for needleworkers, which is what I mostly do. Some of those folks I've met there I've been friends with for decades!
If you do any kind of textile-related crafts, I highly recommend Ravelry for meeting people. I have friends in a number of other countries around the world because of my membership there, and some of them are even local to where I live. One Ravelry friend is soon coming to get a loom I'm giving her that was my late mother's. I'm not a weaver!
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Author: Spyctre
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Post time: 2017-6-10 13:32
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