Jun 16, 2026 · 57 min · 11 segments
The sewing world has never been more connected, or more fragmented. 15 years ago, most online sewists gathered in a handful of forums and blogs. Today, conversations are spread across Facebook…
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Do you remember? W- where, where did you end up when you realized that, "I am not the only one doing this," um, "there are other people-
Like, the first time I remember meeting up with a sewing community, I mean, that was back when I was in, uh... a teenager.
Um, and it was more... not like a class, but it w- was more like a let's meet up once a week and sew together.
And it was really nice, a nice time to just spend together and have a hobby together, and it was more like everybody was doing their own project.
But, uh, it was like more of a get-together, and there was, of course, a teacher there al- a- also that, uh, help- helped out if, uh, anyone needed.
Um, but sewing community online, I mean, the whole PDF thing in the pattern world, that was, like, news to me a couple of years ago.
Um, so I'm a little bit late, as I'm always [laughs] with these kind of things.
Um, yeah, I mean, I think Facebook groups were the first, like, community, if that counts as a community, that I, um, found, uh, different Facebook groups.
Yeah, so just like you, I think the online sewing community and the offline sewing community kinda happened around the same, uh, time.
So the first, like, physical sewing community I was part of was in the early ought...
Do you remember? W- where, where did you end up when you realized that, "I am not the only one doing this," um, "there are other people-
Like, the first time I remember meeting up with a sewing community, I mean, that was back when I was in, uh... a teenager.
Um, and it was more... not like a class, but it w- was more like a let's meet up once a week and sew together.
And it was really nice, a nice time to just spend together and have a hobby together, and it was more like everybody was doing their own project.
But, uh, it was like more of a get-together, and there was, of course, a teacher there al- a- also that, uh, help- helped out if, uh, anyone needed.
Um, but sewing community online, I mean, the whole PDF thing in the pattern world, that was, like, news to me a couple of years ago.
Um, so I'm a little bit late, as I'm always [laughs] with these kind of things.
Um, yeah, I mean, I think Facebook groups were the first, like, community, if that counts as a community, that I, um, found, uh, different Facebook groups.
Yeah, so just like you, I think the online sewing community and the offline sewing community kinda happened around the same, uh, time.
So the first, like, physical sewing community I was part of was in the early ought...
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