I've tried Googling a solution several times, but either this particular question hasn't been asked or my Google-fu is weak.
I'm playing around with making a list, made up of another list. Here's the problem I run into:
So what's the right way to do this?
Not that important, but the list items in Dot are filler.
A couple of methods, depending on what it is you want:
If you have a long list and you want sublists from it, you could chunk it:
Using a modification of your first example I am able to do this:
Thank you. 
They're called tables.
