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r/DIYclothes

63.2K members. The best post we have captured here reached 6.4K upvotes, which works out to 102 per 1,000 members.

102peak upvotes per 1,000 members
63.2Kmembers
6.4Kbest post
469most comments
300posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

43% 32% 12% 10%
Gallery 43% Image 32% Text 12% Question 10% Video 3%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

dye help 52 finished 44 hand sewing 14 wip 12 mending 11 machine sewing 7 help fixing 1 machine embroidery 1

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

some funky tights i’ve made!

↑ 6.4K 💬 77 gallery 2026

Dying two different materials didn’t work how I hoped it would….

↑ 6K 💬 469 image 2026

I made them out of broken pair of pants 🫶🏼

↑ 5.5K 💬 66 gallery 2026

Been experimenting with cutting up old tees and sewing the graphics into new designs

↑ 2.9K 💬 105 gallery 2026

Made this denim purse for my girlfriend

↑ 2.3K 💬 40 gallery 2026

Some horror shirts I made with bleach!

↑ 1.7K 💬 52 gallery 2026

Silver Surfer Bleach painted shirt

↑ 1.6K 💬 62 gallery 2026

A little tutorial

↑ 1.4K 💬 21 video 2026

diy’d my flip flops

↑ 1.1K 💬 34 gallery 2026

Made these from a thrifted skinny jeans + old button up shirt! (The website on the picture does not exist, it’s just for the 2000’s aesthetic)

↑ 608 💬 37 gallery 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/DIYclothes, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/DIYclothes have?
r/DIYclothes has about 63.2K members. ViralHunt has tracked 300 of its posts; the biggest reached 6.4K upvotes, which is 102 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/DIYclothes?
"some funky tights i’ve made!" reached 6.4K upvotes and 77 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/DIYclothes.
What subreddits are similar to r/DIYclothes?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/greenland, r/Astuff, r/FreeFolkNation, r/InvictaSolaris, r/Leakednews, r/LetsDiscussThis.
What kind of posts do best on r/DIYclothes?
Of the posts we hold, 43% are gallery posts and 32% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/DIYclothes?
Across 300 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 22:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes), Monday at 18:00 UTC (820 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 23:00 UTC (612 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Wednesday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/DIYclothes?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/DIYclothes has 199 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 200 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/DIYclothes, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.