🧶 FOR SHY CRAFTERS, ANXIOUS MAKERS, QUIET CREATIVE SOULS & THE CONNECTION-CURIOUS 🪡

Loose Threads Club.

A gentle, low-pressure creative gathering in London for quiet connection

Loose Threads is a monthly craft circle for shy crafters, anxious makers and quiet creative souls. It’s an introvert-led, anxiety-friendly space for anyone who finds typical social settings overwhelming — and who’s curious about connection without pressure.

Once a month in London, we gather in a calm, welcoming space to make things with our hands and be together in ways that feel restorative, soft and spacious. We sew, mend, embroider, knit, crochet, doodle, collage, or simply sit.

Book your spot at the next Loose Threads

How it works

Come as you are.
Work on whatever you like.
Talk if you want.
Don’t if you don’t.
Permission to be quiet.
Small talk optional.
Awkward wobbles welcome.

(You don’t have to earn your seat here.)

Small group of people sitting around tables at a Loose Threads craft gathering in London, quietly making projects together in a calm, low-pressure and supportive creative space.

Doing groups differently

Loose Threads is an experiment in introvert-first, anxiety-friendly togethering.

If you struggle in groups, social settings, speaking up or meeting new people, we’re often told the problem is us — that we need to push harder, be braver or ‘put ourselves out there’ more.

Loose Threads thinks differently:
What if the environment matters too?

Here, the invitation isn’t to stretch out of your comfort zone, but rather to enter a different kind of environment that allows you to show up just as you are.

More self-acceptance, less self-development.

It’s a simple, low-pressure space to:

  • sit quietly or chat lightly

  • make something with your hands

  • feel part of a gentle, non-demanding group

  • experiment with what works for you

Because together doesn’t have to mean constant chatter, and shared quiet is a kind of magic.

Participants admiring handmade projects at a Loose Threads gathering, sharing creativity and connection in a gentle, confidence-building group for shy and sensitive people.
Handmade Loose Threads welcome zine photographed with colourful spools of thread, created to support shy and anxious participants with gentle prompts and reassurance during and after the gathering.

What happens at Loose Threads Club?

Each gathering is simple and free-flowing.

We settle in, maybe share materials, and choose what we feel like working on:

  • mending a sock

  • learning a new stitch

  • following a tutorial

  • experimenting or playing

  • or just sitting and making quietly

Sometimes I’ll offer a light prompt or theme to gently open conversation, but there’s always space for companionable silence too.

It’s not a workshop.
There’s no pressure to produce or perform.
Beginners are welcome.
The group evolves depending on who’s there and what you bring.

A calm, grounded experience of being yourself in a group of strangers can be quietly powerful. It creates a new memory of connection — one your nervous system remembers. Over time, those old “groups are scary” patterns can begin to soften.

Join the club ;)

Upcoming Loose Threads gatherings

Loose Threads meets monthly in London as a CreativeMornings Club.
Each gathering is free and bookable individually.

Upcoming dates:

Participants chatting lightly while crafting at a Loose Threads workshop, a welcoming and introvert-friendly group offering quiet connection without social pressure.

Want a gentle nudge about future gatherings?

Getting a reminder can help – not just for organisation, but because when something is a bit stretchy, and life already feels full (and maybe a bit heavy), it’s easy to talk ourselves out of going. A friendly nudge can make the difference.

Meet your host

Susannah Worth, founder of Gutsy and host of Loose Threads, sitting in a park with headphones around her neck, wearing orange glasses with henna-orange hair.

I’m Susannah — a London-based writer, facilitator and founder of Gutsy.

As an introvert and someone who’s navigated shyness and social anxiety, I know how important it is to have spaces that feel safe, playful and welcoming — without pressure to be more ‘this’ or less ‘that’.

Through Gutsy, I support quiet creatives, shy folks and socially anxious humans to feel more at ease being seen, heard and gently stretched (but never forced). I use story, play, expression, drama and nervous system-informed practices to help people feel more at home in themselves — whether they’re crafting, speaking, sharing or simply being.

Loose Threads grew from that same spirit — and from a personal love of handcrafts and the intimacy of making things side by side. There’s something quietly connective about letting stitches accumulate, silences stretch and conversational threads tangle.

To me, Loose Threads is a gentle pocket of community in a big, complicated city — a place to arrive as you are, experiment without judgement, and leave feeling lighter… perhaps with a few stray threads in your pockets.

You can find more about my wider work, workshops and writing elsewhere on this site, or over at Get Gutsy.

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