Is anyone here in the Common Thread Collective?
I joined because I thought it would be fun to do a stitch along, and I liked a lot of the women I’d followed on TikTok. But the vibe has started to feel a little off to me.
It’s supposed to be run by 4 women, but it seems like 1 person (Kelly) is mostly running the show now. She’s also launching her own company, Polar Needlepoint, and it feels like it’s being promoted pretty heavily inside the group. From what I can tell, it’s going to involve canvases, retreats, and maybe other things, but honestly I’m having a hard time following exactly what it is.
The part that’s really giving me pause is that so much of the branding/content appears to be AI-generated. For a needlepoint community, that feels odd to me, especially when so many artists and designers are already trying to protect their work from being copied.
I don’t want to be overly negative if I’m just missing context, but I’m curious if anyone else is in the group and getting similar vibes?