Craftster

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| type = Craft content / online community

| foundation = {{start date and age|2000|5}}

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| location_city = El Segundo, California

| location_country = U.S.

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| url = http://www.craftster.org/

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| current_status = closed

| footnotes = Website closed on December 19, 2019

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Craftster was an online community for crafting and do it yourself (DIY) enthusiasts.{{cite web| publisher = NBC News| title = Designer combines the nerdy with the crafty| url= http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29108952| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160305083508/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/29108952/| url-status= dead| archive-date= March 5, 2016}} Users posted pictures of craft projects, and others commented and asked questions about how it was made.{{cite magazine |title=Pretty Crafty |url=http://www.time.com/time/connections/article/0,9171,1032358-2,00.html| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20050304035512/http://www.time.com/time/connections/article/0,9171,1032358-2,00.html| url-status=dead| archive-date= March 4, 2005|magazine=Time | date=March 1, 2005}}

The Craftster.org website closed on December 19, 2019.

The site's tagline, "No tea cozies without irony", referred to the fact that many of the projects posted are irreverent, off-beat, humorous, clever, etc. While projects posted on the site tended to be made using traditional techniques such as knitting, crochet, cross stitch and sewing they often conveyed modern sentiments such as images of a favorite rock band, or motifs from a favorite 1980s video game.{{cite web| work = The Daily Record| title = It's Sew Easy To Make & Mend| url= http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/life/2009/02/01/it-s-sew-easy-to-make-mend-78057-21087510/}}

The site had over 190,000 registered members.{{cite web| agency = Associated Press| title = Get crafty for holiday gifts| url= http://www.gazette.com/articles/says-30280-crafting-handmade.html}} It has been written up in publications such as Time, The New York Times, The Guardian, and The Washington Post.{{cite news | title = Feeling Crafty? Inspiration Abounds on These 5 Sites| url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/02/04/AR2009020401254.html| newspaper=The Washington Post| date=February 5, 2009}}

{{cite news | title = Crafster Founder Interview| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/magazine/02wwln_consumed.html| work=The New York Times Magazine| date=July 2, 2006}}

{{cite news| title = Sewing Hip| url = http://www.seattlepi.com/lifestyle/346712_sewing10.html| work=Seattle Post-Intelligencer| date=January 9, 2008}} The membership was over 190,000, and readership was over 1,000,000 unique visitors per month and over 10,000,000-page views per month.{{cite web|title=Statistics Center|url=http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?action=stats|publisher=Craftster.org|access-date=14 October 2016}}

The site has been called be one of the forces behind the renaissance of crafting among a new, young, contemporary demographic.{{cite web| agency= Associated Press| title = 'Alternative' crafters bring new eye to crafts| date = November 27, 2009| url = http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2009/11/27/news/feature/doc4b0d9641df8de722704048.txt#vmix_media_id=11813425}}