After reading the 400+ surveys from you all (THANK YOU by the way!!!) I knew it was time to do a big change on the blog. This is something that I suspected for a while now, and reading all the comments from everyone just confirmed all my thoughts to be true.

Most of you want to read about pattern hacks, sewalongs, finished makes, and tutorials. Yep, me too. That's what I like reading on other's blogs too, so this was not a surprise to me.

I have always looked at my blog as a support site to my patterns, and have never considered myself a "blogger" per se. But I see that as I grow, I am actually not supporting all my patterns as well as I could.

So, I'm going to officially declare that I am going to Blog. Blog with a capital B. Blog for real. And with that comes all new everything! New site, new address, new new new!

I'm keeping the name of my blog the same, and will simply be moving from a blogspot address to its own domain. So City Stitching will now live at www.CityStitching.com. (can you believe that was still available?!) While you're thinking about it, go bookmark it, follow it on your favorite reader, etc. I promise more notice when the full changeover occurs, which hopefully will be very soon (and hopefully will go smoothly!!!).

Here's a preview of what you can expect to see on the new site:

Better workshop listings: My main site where I sell my patterns is so amazing at doing exactly that, but both on that site and on my blog it is clunky for me to code a proper workshop schedule as I'd like it to be. That part looks amazing on the new site- complete with maps to the locations, the ability to sync to your personal calendar, and just a clearer organization.Clear tabs for finished makes: I love reading and seeing the finished makes on all the blogs I read, and it's really nice to have a clear spot to find that. Personally, I loathe it when the tab simply brings up a search of posts with that tag, giving you pages and pages to sort through. So on the new blog, there will be a pretty grid of images for you to click through to the post about that outfit. Easy peasy!A sewalong tab: Much like the finished makes issue, the same change will happen with the sewalong posts I've written. There is a drop down menu for you to pick the garment, and that will lead you to an easy to navigate grid of images to click through to each post. Love it!More professional and clean look: I think blogger is great and all, but I am excited to move to a clean site that is less busy. I have trouble with clutter, both in my real home and my virtual one too!A tutorials tab: Just like with the sewalong and finished makes, tutorials will get their own tab too, so you can find what you're looking for in a pretty way. More everything: With this change, I will be beefing up everything. More posts, more tutorials, more finished makes, and more more more! For someone who wears about 95% handmade, that surely isn't reflected on my blog. So I will be posting a lot more of what I'm sewing too.Easier and prettier: This doesn't effect you necessarily, but I can say that the new site lets me do things in a prettier and easier way. Blogger really fights you with image formatting and such, and I'm so happy with the new software and how easy it is for me to make everything look beautiful. All the data: And of course, on the new site I will share all the data received from the surveys and a lot of discussion that will come with that. There's so much to talk about, that I want to roll it out a bit at a time. 
Thanks again to everyone for all the support and input on the surveys and beyond. Without all of you, my business is nothing! Seriously, I want to make sure to always stay clear with my own vision, but it is important for me to know what you all want too.

Big hugs!
xoxo