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Embroidery: When you don't know whether to make art or stab something. A community for hand and machine embroiderers to exchange tips, techniques, resources, and ideas. Founded 2010 · 1M members

1M members. The best post we have captured here reached 75.2K upvotes, which works out to 72 per 1,000 members.

72peak upvotes per 1,000 members
1Mmembers
75.2Kbest post
5.9Kmost comments
435posts 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.

48% 42%
Gallery 48% Image 42% Text 7% Question 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.

Hand 335 Question 83 Machine 10 Resource 2 :karma: Mod Favorite 1

What the ceiling looks like

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

Polar bear in spring time

↑ 75.2K 💬 829 gallery 2025

I DID IT

↑ 72.6K 💬 990 gallery 2025

A snowy embroidery project heavily inspired by Narumi Takada

↑ 69K 💬 490 gallery 2025

made for my best friend - these were the first words she spoke to my dad when we moved into the house two doors down from hers 25 years ago

↑ 66.3K 💬 566 image 2025

I started embroidery to process grief - here is a year of healing in French Knots

↑ 61.8K 💬 847 gallery 2024

As a sick person I really enjoyed making this ✊🏻

↑ 59.5K 💬 283 image 2024

🪡🐸💚

↑ 56.7K 💬 266 image 2024

Well, I have finished my new embroidery, now you can admire it❤️

↑ 54.8K 💬 725 image 2025

this is the hill i will die on

↑ 50.4K 💬 1.9K image 2025

I think this is the greatest thing I’ve ever stitched [OC]

↑ 48.9K 💬 451 image 2022

Communities its size

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

r/Embroidery, in numbers

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

What is r/Embroidery?
r/Embroidery ("Embroidery: When you don't know whether to make art or stab something") describes itself this way: A community for hand and machine embroiderers to exchange tips, techniques, resources, and ideas. It was founded in 2010 and has 1M members.
How many members does r/Embroidery have?
r/Embroidery has about 1M members. ViralHunt has tracked 435 of its posts; the biggest reached 75.2K upvotes, which is 72 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/Embroidery?
"Polar bear in spring time" reached 75.2K upvotes and 829 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/Embroidery.
What subreddits are similar to r/Embroidery?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology, r/illinois, r/economicCollapse.
What kind of posts do best on r/Embroidery?
Of the posts we hold, 48% are gallery posts and 42% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/Embroidery?
Across 435 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 20:00 UTC (25.2K avg upvotes), Sunday at 18:00 UTC (25.1K avg upvotes), Saturday at 16:00 UTC (24.3K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Tuesday. 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/Embroidery?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/Embroidery has 38.8K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 36 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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