Craft groups in New York.
7 clubs, and when they meet. Most meet on weekday evenings, around Financial District, Fort Greene, Greenpoint. Most are free to join. The ones without a fixed day are listed below, linked to where they announce. Subscribe to this calendar →
What to expect.
Craft groups in New York are knitting and crochet circles, sewing nights, mending meetups and general make-anything evenings on a fixed day, often at a library, a café or a yarn shop. Bring whatever you are working on, or nothing and ask.
Nearly all are free. Where a venue charges a small fee for the room, the listing says.
All 7 craft groups in New York.
A to Z, in each club's own words. Every one links to the club, and every day and time is the one the club publishes.
Monthly Sunday-evening knitting circle at the Center for Fiction on Lafayette Ave, running since 2009; bring your own project (no lessons) and a bottle to share. Capped at 15.
Monthly, a Sunday 5pm at the Center for Fiction, 15 Lafayette Ave · Fort Greene · $3 · meetup.com →Large needlecraft group with several standing sessions a month: Tuesday evenings at a pub in Washington Heights, alternate Thursdays in Queens, Wednesdays in Brooklyn. Exact venues are shown to Meetup members.
Tuesdays 6:30pm Washington Heights, alternate Thursdays 6:30pm Queens, Wednesdays 6pm Brooklyn; venues visible to Meetup members · Free · meetup.com →Monthly Saturday guild meeting in a church basement on E 31st St plus a free fortnightly 'Stitch at the Library' at St. Agnes Library on the Upper West Side. First visit is free; members make charity items.
Monthly Saturday 12:15pm at Church of the Good Shepherd, 240 E 31st St; also alternate Tuesdays 11am at St. Agnes Library · $5/visit · meetup.com →Monthly stitch night for hand embroidery, cross-stitch, needlepoint and other slow fibre work, currently at Wild East Brewery in Gowanus. Beginners and experienced stitchers alike.
Monthly weekday evening 7pm; recently Wild East Brewery, 623 Sackett St · Free · meetup.com →After-work crafting happy hour at Brookfield Place: knitting, crochet, cross-stitch and needlepoint over a drink, roughly monthly on a weekday evening. Beginners welcome.
Roughly monthly weekday evening 5:30pm at Brookfield Place, 230 Vesey St · Financial District · Free · meetup.com →Free weekly paper-folding meetups: Tuesday evenings at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library on 5th Ave, Thursday evenings at the Whole Foods cafe on Madison Ave. Models are taught, paper is shared.
Tuesdays, 6pm · Midtown · Free · meetup.com →Bring whatever you are making and work alongside other artists on Monday nights at Spritzenhaus33 beer hall on Nassau Ave. Regular meetups are free; occasional group shows are ticketed.
Mondays, 7pm · Greenpoint · Free · meetup.com →
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