6.05.2015

Jumping ship!

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Back in August of 2013 we started a little campaign to create a Sewing category on Bloglovin. Almost 1700 votes and 23 months later, it's here! (AND HEY OH HAI VERONICA!)

Now, I've never been a fan of categorization, per se, especially as a mixed chick actress who comes across roadblocks daily in terms of labels, BUT, I have a feeling I'm going to enjoy the bejesus out of this little classification. Mainly because of this:


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FIND. BLOGS. IN. SEWING!!!

Look y'all, I love me a good Diy/Craft blog, but when my fingers do the walking to find new fodder, I'm looking for 80% sewing and 20% glue gun. 

I'm always baffled when people on the street are surprised to hear that I sew. Generally, their view of sewing is of extinct Home Ec classes. Of course, we know better. Of course, we are all BRILLIANT SPARKLY FABULOUS THINGS that wear BRILLIANT SPARKLY FABULOUS THINGS that we made ourselves!*

And in my opine a new dedicated Sewing category on the top blog reader on the web is a great way to let your friends, romans, countrymen (not to mention, businesses) know that sewing is back, yo. 

So! If you'd like to make the switch from Crafting to Sewing, just click on your little icon in the upper right hand corner, next to the search bar (below, mine is that little yellowish circle of me with scissors in my mouth). In the drop down menu, directly under Profile, choose Blog Analytics...


oonaballoona | a sewing blog | bloglovin



Which brings you to your super fancy analytics page.


oonaballoona | a sewing blog | bloglovin



Click "edit blog info", and in the pop up window you can choose which category you'd like your corner of the web to exist in.


oonaballoona | a sewing blog | bloglovin

And that's it! (You can also just click on the temporary banner Bloglovin added for us on the feed page.) It takes several hours for Bloglovin to update your info, but that Sewing category is growing by leaps and bounds. Certainly, the posts here will still be about any number of things, who can tell the inner workings of my noggin, but I'm so stoked to find new sewing peeps. Love ya, Free People. Love ya, Beautiful Mess. Love ya, I Spy DIY. I'll come check on you from time to time, but me and my friends gots some stitching to do.

(*not necessarily sparkly, but always brilliant and fabulous.)

46 comments:

  1. I love that there is finally a Sewing category but I wish we also had one that specified blogs which are primarily garment sewing because I fear Sewing will become as varied as DIY/Craft. I also wish there was a sub-category for blogs that only deal with kid clothing. However, I know there is no ideal world so I will be grateful for this Sewing category and just shut up now... ; )

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    1. this might still happen! i emailed the help desk months ago and they said tagging posts is in the works.

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  2. I was so stoked to see this on Bloglovin' yesterday! And surprised to realize that my blog had previously categorized as "Other." Now if I only there was an "Sewing + ethical fashion + random thoughts" category...

    Nice work on the petition, all!

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    1. haha! i would need sewing + drinking + occasional yelling.

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  3. I just discovered this this morning! So exciting!!!! AND *I may be sewing the most brilliant sparkling fabulous thing I have ever made!* YAY :)

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  4. Thanks for posting this, I was trying to figure this out. Apparently I had my blog listed under "other"
    UUUHH WHAT

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  5. Thanks for sharing! There are certainly enough sewing blogs that we deserve our own category. Making the switch was easy.

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  6. Thanks I checked mine and I'm already linked to Sewing! Yes! This is so kewl and I'm so glad that they've finally gotten around to updating this because I'd given up hope.

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  7. I was so excited when I saw this the other day. I'd seen that it had moved into the "planned" phase on Bloglovin', but that didn't detract from my excitement the day I actually saw it come into effect. Thanks Oona!!!!!

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  8. Sewing forever! (In feedly I have quilt bloggers & kids' clothing sewers in crafts but only but only garment sewers in my sewing section, but that's just for my reading preferences, not for something that's set up for me)

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  9. Yay! And thanks for the good work!

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  10. That was the first thing I noticed when I logged into Bloglovin' today! I was so stinkin' excited!!!

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  11. Yippee! Thanks for the tip Oonaballoona!

    I might get a 10th follower now! LOL!

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  12. So happy, and well done you, because you gotta speak up sometimes ... even for the little things... and YAY HAI so funny to see myself here... I got confused for a minute!

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  13. That is so very cool! Hororay!

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  14. This is awesome. I just reclassified my blog to "sewing."

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  15. Thanks for sharing, never would have seen that!

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  16. Cool bananas! Have just reclassified myself!

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  17. Not only did you show me how to reclassify my blog (from "other" to "sewing") but you also showed me how to change the description, which I have been wanting to do since bloglovin' imported my old description from blogger! YAY!

    Thanks for leading the effort to get the new category added!

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    1. awesome! i didn't even know BL would import descriptions.

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  18. Used the info to switch mine yesterday, and just got a bunch of new followers. Yesssss!

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  19. Thanks! Did it and already I'm seeing results! Yay!

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  20. I love having a sewing category but I wish you could choose to classify your (my) blog as more than one category. I do a lot of art AND sewing, so it's like... what do I do?

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    1. i think go for your main thing, even if it's 60/40... hopefully we'll be able to tag our posts by category soon.

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  21. This is a great development! But one of my pet peeves about Bloglovin' is that when you browse the sewing category, they tend to only show you the blogs that already have thousands and thousands of followers. I'm interested to see a wider variety of sewing blogs than just the most popular ones, and as someone fairly new to blogging myself I'd hope that my blog might come up in the browse list, but it's probably way at the bottom. This method of only recommend the already-popular blogs just seems to feed on itself, ya know?

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    1. Yeah. Similarly to what happened when I joined Pinterest; they automatically hooked me up for following these super-popular people, based on my interests, most of whom I immediately unfollowed, because they actually didn't match my tastes at all.

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    2. yes-- that was my main problem when clicking over to explore popular posts in DIY/Craft, which I did to find new sewing blogs. So much beautiful mess & free people! the same is sure to happen in the sewing category, but, at least now we can go to "find blogs" in specific categories and find a huge variety of sewing blogs. i think i added five this weekend!

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  22. I don't use Bloglovin' but oh, do I get how this is important! Especially because my ideal crafting fixes are more like 80% sewing (out of which about 80% percent is historical sewing, handsewing techniques, pattern making and other similar fun things), 10% embroidery, 5% crazy things I'll never do like shoemaking + some crochet and knitting and then maybe 2.5% cooking (the percentages of these latter two are up for debate, with leeways for other crafts), and 1.25 % for paint & paper. With a high percentage of that little percentage being things that aren't "glue these simple pre-bought things together". Whereas when you search for "crafts" and "DIY", the progression of the percentage is usually directly opposite to the above. And then there is the fact of "no sew, you only need hot glue for this!" very often being a selling point, which I just can't get behind, because guess what, I have lots and lots of needles and thread, but zero point zero hot glue implements!
    When I started my original Czech blog, you had to pick a category in the blogging system and there wasn't even a category for "crafts", which was particularly frustrating.
    I've gotten ranty. That wasn't the intention. Not entirely. I was actually going to get to the point of telling how, two weeks ago, I went to the theatre with my sister and a cousin and a friend, and I was wearing my Regency dress & sleeveless bodice (photos still impending) because I could, huh, and my sister was wearing a blouse I've sewn for her, and my cousin was wearing a fabulous long changeable skirt she'd made, and how great that felt. Instead of the "you sew?" thing, you know. (King's Speech in the National Theatre in Brno, it was great. Having read the play for school earlier, I really could appreciate how well they've implemented the stage directions with their particular design, on top of how good the actors were and how fun the play is. Also, neat costumes!)

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    1. you are never ranty. although ranting about no-sew-hot-glue is highly acceptable.

      the three of you must have felt unstoppable!

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    2. I am pretty sure I am often ranty, although it's possible that my idiosyncratic style of ranting comes across as something else in written form. :D

      I think I did; I cannot speak for the others. I imagine the rain did impend it a little...

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  23. SO EXCITED FOR THIS!!! And mega kudos to you for suggesting it to begin with. You're amazing.

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  24. I'm pretty pumped about this new category! It's perfect for when you feel like a new blog to read. So much easier to find one that you'll like.

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  25. Just changed mine. Thanks for the heads up. I missed it.

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  26. Your level of awesome has just been upgraded, Oonaballoona! Thank you!

    www.StyleSewMe.com

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  27. Thanks for the instructions, I never would have figured that out. Fantastic!

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  28. I laughed when I read that people are surprised that you sew. I get that too. All the time. Like I'm some kind of alien. And the weird thing is, I'm exactly the kind of person you would think people would consider most likely to sew - older and a little old-fashioned, generally. I guess sewing is just weird these days.

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i thankya truly for taking the time to comment, i love a good conversation-- and hope you know my thanks are always implied, if not always written!