Unlike Berne here, I did recently take up knitting, starting this past summer. My new-found hobby led me to discover a site called Craftster.org forum, which is a group of message boards completely devoted to younger people who do crafty things, things that are normally associated with older women. The site's got more of a focus on cool, modern things to do with old crafting ideas.
But that's not (quite) what this post is about. Within the past couple of months, the creator of the site decided to develop a related Craftster.org blog to showcase some of the coolest crafting stuff that shows up on the message boards, as well as display some of the things that she finds useful. The blog is actually run by two people: Leah and Simone. It is actually pretty young; the first entry appeared less than a month ago. Still, there seems to be quite a bit of potential here.
The crafting ideas the authors blog about range from the awesome to the absurd. Since this is more or less a collection of the coolest things that they come across on Craftster.org, a fair number of their links go back to threads on the forums where people have already discussed the things that they are showcasing. I'm tempted to classify it as a sort of filter, albeit one with more personal commentary on the links and images than usual, and one that focuses mostly on filtering from a single site rather than a variety of sources.
That's not to say that they don't go outside of the Craftster.org forums for material to post. Their audience is mostly composed of socially-conscious young people (admittedly mostly women), and some of their recent topics include eco-friendly fabric sources and a post about a clothing store that helps to fight against sweat shops.
Also, their most recent post (just put up as I was typing this, as a matter of fact) is all about Minneapolis. Anyone who likes Minneapolis can't be bad, right? :) In all, I think it's an informative and fairly innovative site, and worth checking back later to see what kind of progress they make.
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