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Sewing - A community for people that sew. Sewing for everybody and every body. This is a community specifically for the hobby of sewing including, but not limited to: machine sewing, hand sewing, embroidery, quilting, mending, garment sewing, fitting/alterations and help/suggestion threads. Founded 2011 · 2.3M members

2.3M members. The best post we have captured here reached 85K upvotes, which works out to 38 per 1,000 members.

38peak upvotes per 1,000 members
2.3Mmembers
85Kbest post
1.9Kmost comments
445posts 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.

56% 27% 9%
Gallery 56% Image 27% Text 9% Question 7%

The topics it labels

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

Project: FO 153 Sewed This 57 Pattern Question 50 Fabric Question 40 Alter/Mend Question 36 Other Question 23 Pattern Search 21 Machine Questions 15 Technique Question 9 Project: FO :pumpkin: 7

What the ceiling looks like

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

Sewed myself a jacket from old windsurfing sail bags

↑ 85K 💬 1.1K image 2024

Finally finished my fall coat!

↑ 78K 💬 1.9K gallery 2024

I made myself a dress for my PhD graduation. Butterick B6018.

↑ 53.5K 💬 758 gallery 2022

Finally finished - Formal dress for a wedding I’m attending in December

↑ 52.9K 💬 810 gallery 2021

My most ambitious project yet! Wool winter coat, 1 year in the making

↑ 51.4K 💬 1.1K gallery 2022

Thrift flipped this embroidered sailboat dress and I love it!!

↑ 50.7K 💬 524 image 2022

I just finished sewing my first outfit! it's for a festival :D

↑ 49.2K 💬 863 video 2022

I ruined 100 needles to make a Kate Spade-inspired Croc Purse

↑ 49.2K 💬 733 gallery 2022

I made my AND my friend's prom dresses! ✨

↑ 46.1K 💬 527 gallery 2022

I made my first pair of shoes!

↑ 44.9K 💬 626 gallery 2025

Communities its size

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

r/sewing, in numbers

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

What is r/sewing?
r/sewing ("Sewing - A community for people that sew") describes itself this way: Sewing for everybody and every body. This is a community specifically for the hobby of sewing including, but not limited to: machine sewing, hand sewing, embroidery, quilting, mending, garment sewing, fitting/alterations and help/suggestion threads. It was founded in 2011 and has 2.3M members.
How many members does r/sewing have?
r/sewing has about 2.3M members. ViralHunt has tracked 445 of its posts; the biggest reached 85K upvotes, which is 38 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/sewing?
"Sewed myself a jacket from old windsurfing sail bags" reached 85K upvotes and 1.1K comments in 2024, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/sewing.
What subreddits are similar to r/sewing?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/AnarchyChess, r/PcBuild, r/bald, r/ukraine, r/GlowUps, r/LosAngeles.
What kind of posts do best on r/sewing?
Of the posts we hold, 56% are gallery posts and 27% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/sewing?
Across 445 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Thursday at 11:00 UTC (27.2K avg upvotes), Sunday at 22:00 UTC (23.2K avg upvotes), Saturday at 14:00 UTC (22.6K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Saturday. 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/sewing?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/sewing has 35.5K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 24 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/sewing, 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.