Announcing: Following the Thread

Photo by Terri Bleeker on Unsplash

As you might have already noticed by landing on this page, I've made a big change.

I was feeling the need to refresh my blog and planned to work on it slowly & let everyone know it was coming, with some advance warning.

But this long weekend found me full of energy and drive and I spent most of it on the computer working on this refresh!

So I am proud to announce the arrival of my own domain name and my renewed blog:

FollowingTheThread.ca

Yes, it's a .ca, as I'm in Canada.

I'm aiming to synchronize both my passion for reading and for sewing a little more openly here, and will thus be sharing book reviews a little more often, and have some great literary surprises in store.

Stay tuned, and I hope you'll keep following my readerly, stitcherly adventures.

If you were already following Magpie Makery on bloglovin, you're now following me under this new name as well, without having to switch anything at all. Other social media remains the same, under my username sewmelwyk. Thanks for following!

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Sunshine Awards

     

I'd like to thank Dorothy of Sewing Fun Things for nominating me for the Sunshine and Shine On award. This award is meant to help you get to know your fellow bloggers better and network with other bloggers, as well as reveal fun facts about you to help your readers know you better.

The Rules -

• Use the award logo in your post
• Link to whoever nominated you
• Write ten pieces of information about yourself
• Nominate ten fellow bloggers (or fewer if you have fewer followers) who positively and creatively inspire others in the blogosphere
• Inform the nominees on their blogs

Okay, so first off, 10 facts about me:

1. I have another blog, focused on books and reading, that I've been writing for the last 8 yrs
2. I'm a librarian by day
3. I've been a vegetarian for over 20 years now
4. For the last couple of years, my preferred exercise has been hooping!
5. I've come back to regular, frequent sewing after many years of just doing a bit here and there -- what was I thinking?!
6. I love tea. I mean, love it. 
7. I used to have hair I could nearly sit on, but chopped it off in a 20's style bob some years ago and have never looked back
8. I'm a middle child
9. I rarely watch tv -- too much reading and sewing to do :)
10. Chocolate is my kryptonite

Now for my nominees...well, I'm still pretty new to the sewing blogosphere, so I can think of just a few that I've discovered recently, and haven't already been awarded, which are inspiring for many reasons:

Rikki Sews
Pretty Grievances
That's Sew Amy
Star's Threads

Thanks, I Made Them