Literary Sewing Circle: Spring 2026

 

Our Spring 2026 session of the Literary Sewing Circle begins today! 

I'm pleased to announce that our group read this time around is:

SNAP by Susin Nielsen

Summary: 

SNAP is a tautly-written, laugh-out-loud novel that taps into the rage that lies in wait within us all, sometimes just one lit match away from igniting.

Frances Partridge, fifty-five, is a beloved children’s author. Geraint Blevins, forty-one, is an auto mechanic and devoted family man. Parker Poplawski, twenty-three, is just starting her career as a wardrobe assistant on a hit TV show. What do these people have in common?

Nothing, that’s what. Until each of them reaches a breaking point and snaps in spectacular fashion. They meet in a court-mandated anger management class: three very different people, forced to spend a lot of time together, who slowly end up bonding and helping one another in unexpected ways, whether it’s to move on or to exact revenge.

[from publisher]

About the Author: 

SUSIN NIELSEN is a multiple award-winning novelist and screenwriter who recently wrapped the fourth season of her critically acclaimed hour-long comedy-drama series, Family Law. She’s written over a hundred hours of television and is also the author of seven best-selling young adult novels. Her books have won the Governor General’s Literary Award, the UKLA award and over a dozen young readers’ choice awards. In 2019, she was awarded the Writers’ Trust Vicki Metcalf Award for a body of work. Her books have been translated around the world.

SNAP is Nielsen’s debut adult novel.

[from author's website]

This round we also have some sponsors! Two fabric stores from British Columbia, the setting of our book, are sponsoring us this time. 

Beaton Linen is offering a digital pattern as a prize - check out her website for a look at her patterns and also the wide variety of beautiful fabrics in her online store. 

Blackbird Fabrics is also offering a digital pattern as a prize - and a code for those who sign up (for this one, please 'officially' sign up in the comments here or on IG to let me know you are sewing along. 

This book is available for purchase in multiple formats.

You can find this title at all of these locations:

IndieBound

Chapters Indigo

Blackwell's Books 

Barnes and Noble

ABE Books

Amazon.ca

Amazon.com

Amazon.co.uk

Amazon.com.au

Or, of course, check your local library!

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How does the Literary Sewing Circle work? We read a book together, discuss it, and then make something inspired by our reading. As long as you can point out what inspired you from your reading, even if just a sentence, you can share your makes in our final roundup!

Anyone can join, and you can sew, knit, crochet, quilt or embroider - any textile art that you like doing - to participate. This is a reading/sewing circle, very low-key. This round we are lucky to have some sponsors too! 

There is no official sign-up to worry about; just start reading along if you wish, and leave your thoughts on the book or your project on any of the Literary Sewing Circle posts. And you can follow along on Instagram too if you like: look for @sewmelwyk and the hashtag #LiterarySewingCircle and you'll find us.

And when the final post goes up on week 6, so does the project linkup -- you can leave a link to your finished project in the comments, whether it is on your blog, a pattern site, or even Instagram. It's easy :)

So, join in, and share!

Literary Sewing Circle Schedule

March 20 - Announcement & Introduction

March 27 - Inspiration post 1

April 3 -Book thoughts

April 10   - Author feature

April 17 -  Inspiration post 2

April 24  - Final Post: book discussion wrap up & project linkup

We will have our project linkup live for two weeks after the final post to allow you to finish up and post your projects, which takes us to May 8, when the window to share your projects will close if you want to enter for one of the prizes.