Bistitchual
I don't know how common this might be, but I do my nalbinding (nålbinding/naalbinding/etc) quite a bit differently than any instructions show. I keep my working loops on a long long knitting needle, and hold that the way an English cottage knitter does. I use a small tapestry needle for my naal, and I mostly work with thinner cotton yarns. Since you can't wet splice those, I Russian join the segments together. The whole thumb-hold thing never really worked well for me; even when it went right, my fabric would be all loose. That's probably just a skill issue that I could overcome with time, but my way works now, so I stick to it lol. Also, it helps me keep track of which loop is which. If I'm doing it correctly, this ought to be Mammen stitch. I hope. That said, the traditional way clearly works very well for most people! Look at [this person's](https://nalbinding.blog/finnish-22-hand-warmers-part-one-stitch-close-ups/) beautiful stitches.
Chances are, there's a chapter near you of some group dedicated to a specific niche textile. Many of these arts are a little neglected these days, so groups dedicated to them are usually really happy to get new members. Plus, they'll usually have something cool like "Guild" or "Society" in the name, which just feels neat to be a part of lol. This group linked here is having a Lace Weekend on 11/2-11/4, with lots of different crafts present. If I make it out there I'll report back, with pics. At some point, we should probably add a page to the wiki linking to all the official needlecraft Guilds and Societies out there. Or at least all of them that we can find, they can be pretty obscure!
A weird thing about Tunisian crochet is that the flat and in-the-round variants are quite different from each other! Flat uses a singed ended hook, and round uses a double ended hook. Flat builds up stitches on the hook in one direction, and removes them from the hook in the *opposite* direction. Round builds up stitches in one direction, and removes them in the *same* direction, but off the other side of the hook. There are patterns you can produce in round that seem impossible to do in the other, and vice versa. Here, I'm trying to guess at one possible flat method to mimic this traditional in-the-round pattern. So, intuitively it seems doable the standard way, at first. The beginning goes easy enough. You work forward in yarn color A, then tie in yarn color B and do your return pass in that. Now, you go to do the next forward pass, but *gasp!* The working end of yarn color A is still over on the other side of the work! You left it there when you tied on yarn color B. One attempt I've seen done is to carry the unused yarn along the back of the work, but it's messy and makes for a loose fabric. I went another method:  How this goes is, you use the double ended hook you'd usually use for in-the-round. You pick up and remove stitches with the two ends as you would in the round, until you get to the other side. This is where it gets weird. Now, you do that *exact same thing* over again, except you do everything in reverse! The side of the hook you were using to remove stitches, now you're using it to pick them up. And the side you were using to pick up stitches will remove them. It doesn't feel great or intuitive, it's basically like switching from left handed to right handed or vice versa. It works, but as you can see there's one more problem. The vertical ribs in TSS always tilt slightly to one side, but now the tilt direction changes each row! There is a way to fix that using *twisted* TSS stitches on alternate rows, but to make it more complicated, I also wanted to have a solid color border at the left and right. This is roughly how I thought it could go, combining this new method with the float method mentioned earlier for the sides:  So, incorporating all this, I tried it again. Here's the comparison, with LOTS of mistakes. It was eally hard to get the hang of lol. Check it out: 
I made this mostly as a way to practice as many Tunisian in-the-round stitches as possible. It is a pretty comfy purse though! The yarn is interesting, I found these *enormous* spools of it at Goodwill. It's very fine, maybe lace weight, except it's slightly fuzzy? It's not very strong but once it's worked up into a reasonably dense fabric, it'll hold up. Gives the finished object a soft and fuzzy feel. There's no pattern, but it's very simple. Just work the body of the purse in-the-round as one big cylinder, switching types of Tunisian every few rows for coolness. Then separately make a thin, lonnnggg band of flat Tunisian simple stitch. Slip-stitch the band to the bottom of the cylinder to close it off at one end, and then continue stitching it up the sides of the cylinder. The excess band at the top becomes the purse strap. Overlap and stitch together the ends of the band to form a nice thick padding for your shoulder. Tunisian in-the-round hooks are little harder to find than hooks for working flat. I *really* love [the set](https://assets.pxlmo.com/public/m/_v2/576144498109009876/0e43b1202-69768b/Jd3ElyZluNtr/R63CQzdbMwi45Bk483wy6gCtMdqsLgm8pGOk9kQ7.jpg) I used to make this purse, but the company discontinued it! I've lost a few of them since then too...
As in bi-stitch-ual. I didn't come up with it though, there's a [very popular subreddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/bistitchual/) by that name, and one whose presence I've sorely missed since moving away. While there are already a bunch of needlecraft communities in the fediverse, as far as I could tell, most of them are dedicated to specific popular crafts ([knitting](https://lemmy.world/c/knitting)/ [crochet](https://lemmy.ca/c/crochet)/ [cross-stitch](https://lemmit.online/c/crossstitch)/etc). That leaves a void for folks interested in, say, ply-split braiding. Or combinations of crafts, like knitted garments with tatted trim. Also, since PieFed isn't exactly a 1-for-1 Lemmy clone, I figured it could use some of it's own versions of communities anyway.
Bistitchual
!bistitchual@piefed.socialThis community is for all textiles/needlecrafts! However, it has a particular emphasis on:
- Projects that incorporate multiple crafts (knitting/weaving/etc) in the same work.
- People who do more than one kind of textile.
- Questions/discussions that transcend any one specific craft.
- Rare forms of textiles (nalbinding/kumihimo/etc) with too small a web presence to flourish in their own dedicated forum.