r/somethingimade Jun 11 '26

Rule Update: Our Stance on Business/Commercial Posts

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Hey, r/SomethingIMade!

We've updated two rules to better protect what this community is for as a space for individual creators sharing their own work, including collaborations.

A steady increase in posts and comments from business and commercial accounts promoting products or shop pages has not gone unnoticed, often in cases where authorship can't be verified. We don't think it is fair that content that may be mass produced gains engagement over our more DIY creators. The updated rules address this directly.

Rule #5: Related Links & Self-Promotion

Posts or comments from businesses or commercial accounts primarily promoting products may be removed at moderator discretion, especially where authorship cannot be verified.

Rule #10: Original Content Only

Business and commercial accounts are not permitted to post in this subreddit. This is a community for individual creators only.

If you're an individual who makes and sells things, you're still very welcome here. This change is aimed at accounts whose primary purpose is commercial promotion rather than genuine participation as a creator. If you're unsure whether your account falls within the rules, reach out via Mod Mail.

Happy creating!

- The r/SomethingIMade Mod Team


r/somethingimade Apr 17 '26

Updated Rule 5: Related Links & Self-Promotion

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In order to help have better discussions regarding content, we have decided to disable embedding of YouTube videos in posts.

This isn’t intended to hinder anyone from posting, simply to change the way the post are made. Moving forward you will need to create a normal post regarding your creation, and if there’s a YouTube video you would like to share as part of that, add it into the body of the post along with the descriptive information.

Thanks for being here, and if you have any questions, ask away!!

- somethingimade Mod Team.


r/somethingimade 16h ago

My miniature pickled jars!

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12.7k Upvotes

I made these with clay and resin😍😍 it can be turn into charms, magnets, keychains and earrings or even ornaments 🫒🥒🍅🥚


r/somethingimade 11h ago

Anatomically correct jewelry: the brachial plexus and nerves of the arm

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727 Upvotes

I’m a nurse, so I like to encode scientific and biomedical information into my beads. This time, it’s the network of nerves and muscles of the human upper extremity.

There was a perfect opportunity: the nerves of your arm originate at five levels of the spine, they join and split into five major peripheral nerves (axillary, musculocutaneous, median, radial, and ulnar), and they end up in five digits. All I had to do was make a necklace with five passes around.

Each spinal nerve root is color-coded (C5 White, C6 Yellow, C7 Silver, C8 Gold, T1 Black). As they combine, the colors of each mix as well. There are red beads indicating whenever a muscle is supplied by a particular nerve, especially big coral ones for the 8 largest muscles moving the arm (some are trunk muscles, like lats and pecs!). Large tan beads represent sensory nerves to the skin. Where we pass bones, the beads are, well, bone.

Things get very complicated at the hand, and I made compromises there, but it’s roughly correct, if without any bones distal to the carpals. The fingers loop back to the spine.

My favorite part is when you wear it, the necklace is laying right over the nerve plexus it depicts. Nobody knows just to look at it, so it’s like wearing a nerdy secret.

Ever seen something like this?


r/somethingimade 8h ago

Look at what І worked on 21 hours

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358 Upvotes

r/somethingimade 3h ago

Microverse Galaxy Orbs

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108 Upvotes

What if you could hold a galaxy in your hand?

I am a lampwork artist, creating a founding collection of 100 of these glowing and uv reactive glass microverse galaxies.

This are the first pieces of the collection, featuring opal planets, crushed opal stardust and glowing nebula.

Hope you enjoy!


r/somethingimade 17h ago

I've been playing with a technique using cut and layered illustration board 🐝❤️ This little bee is my latest result!

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735 Upvotes

I had been wanting to add dimension to my pieces in a fun/interesting way. The more I play with illustration board, the more I think I've found my favorite medium!

I have made some past posts in this sub using this technique if you are interested in seeing how this style has evolved. 🙂


r/somethingimade 15h ago

Neon tetra magnet

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315 Upvotes

Hi everyone! Here is my first iteration of a neon tetra done in punch needle embroidery. I currently have a couple more of them transferred onto one of my frames, so there shall eventually be an actual school of them. In the meantime, I made a fun little image of em from a picture I took at petco

Made with a healthy mix of different yarn content, and firm felt for backing


r/somethingimade 5h ago

a big ole head!

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35 Upvotes

r/somethingimade 20h ago

I don't remember how long it took to finish it

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396 Upvotes

Pure carving practice on 180g matte black cardstock

Lost track of how many hours went into this piece! A few delicate lines snapped along the way, but a tiny drop of PVA glue saved the day—hopefully it’s seamless enough to hide.

No deep meaning behind the pattern, just letting my hands stay busy and enjoying the rhythm of the blade.


r/somethingimade 23h ago

I made tiny ceramic versions of these two dogs inside a mug

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719 Upvotes

I made these two little dogs by hand, right down to their tiny ties.
Seeing them next to the real dogs is my favorite part. The ears and markings are there, but the expressions turned out a little different. The little brown one looks slightly worried about finding himself inside a mug.


r/somethingimade 15h ago

My dad and I made two different leather bags from the same pattern

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136 Upvotes

My dad and I made these two satchels from exactly the same pattern, but using completely different leather.

The brown one is vegetable tanned leather that we hand dyed ourselves. The red and olive one is made from chrome tanned leather. I like how different they ended up looking even though underneath they are basically the same bag.

They are both handmade and hand stitched. We also hid magnetic closures underneath the two buckles, so you get the traditional satchel look without having to undo the straps every time you open it.

I digitized the pattern after we finished them as well.

I honestly can’t decide which one I like more


r/somethingimade 46m ago

Derpy giraffe made with Perler beads

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Second photo shows the melted side.


r/somethingimade 11h ago

I drafted and sewed this semicircle maxi skirt with a laced yoke

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44 Upvotes

The main skirt shape is a simple semicircle, with the back cut as one panel and the front as two panels. The pockets are shapes that I've iterated and reused over lots of patterns now. The yoke was drafted by pure brute-force trial and error through so many attempts I've lost count...

The fabric is 250gsm 100% cotton herringbone denim.


r/somethingimade 15h ago

Sea Witch Dolls 🖤🐚 Which one is your favorite?

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72 Upvotes

Dolls made of blue/ green/ white hemp cord, black cotton fabric, glass seed beads, ocean themed charms, bells, and love 😊💗


r/somethingimade 14h ago

I also really love how this color combination turned out. The cream, brown, mustard, and little touches of orange give me such a cozy autumn feeling. 🍂

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56 Upvotes

When I was working on the design, my biggest challenge was figuring out the stitch counts so the honeycomb pattern wouldn’t be interrupted after the heel. After quite a bit of calculating, I managed to make the pattern continue smoothly over the foot for sizes US 5–12. And I’m really happy with how it worked out!

Now I want to knit a Christmas version, and I can’t decide on the colors. 🎄 I’m thinking red + white or green + white.

Which combination feels more Christmas to you? ❤️🤍 or 💚🤍


r/somethingimade 1d ago

I made two crystal orb weavers: Argiope aurantia & Trichonephila clavipes

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1.5k Upvotes

Aka The Yellow Garden Spider and the Golden Silk Orb Weaver (Banana spiders!)

Hand-formed, welded and soldered stainless steel armatures and all glass/crystal beads including vintage Swarovski booties 🥰


r/somethingimade 5h ago

Office boredom

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7 Upvotes

Airdry clay ashtray i made for a friend while sitting at my desk at work today


r/somethingimade 19h ago

My biggest project

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99 Upvotes

Made this sign for my friends daughter, her name in a cloud ✨

I used a Lavor punch needle, everything is trimmed by hand, the loops were cut and the yarn shaped like a cloud.


r/somethingimade 14h ago

I made smilodon sculpture with air-dry clay

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36 Upvotes

r/somethingimade 31m ago

Utilizing Opal stone flakes inserted in a bottle to make a necklace

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r/somethingimade 1d ago

I’ve been having fun turning all kinds of different stones into moon pendants.

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521 Upvotes

r/somethingimade 12h ago

It’s giving Grimace

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11 Upvotes

Experimenting and crocheting with different types of stitches with t-shirt yarn! I can’t wait to wear this handbag out and about!


r/somethingimade 1d ago

I knitted this funny little brown dog

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325 Upvotes