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    Hi! I'm Traci. I'm a Registered Nurse who loves quilting, knitting, cross stitch, and the great outdoors. In my pre-scrubs life, I owned Real Photography, and you can still see my old wedding and portrait photography site here .

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Monthly Archives: April 2011

central park quilt

I finished sewing the binding on this monstrosity over a week ago, but it took me forever to get pictures because (1) it’s really hard to get decent pictures of a quilt this big and (2) I’m disappointed in the quilting.  I couldn’t figure out why some sections of the quilt seem to pull in […]

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skirts

I finished this swiss dot skirt a month or so ago, but haven’t had a good chance to take pictures.  I’ve even worn it but forgot to have Nic take some pics.  My plan was to have him bust out a few pictures today of these two skirts in use, but it snowed this morning […]

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blast from the past – my first quilt

This quilt is going on 15 years of UFO-ness.  It’s the first quilt I ever worked on, though I’ll probably have made 50 by the time I get this one finished.  It’s a sample quilt that I started at the tender age of 13.  I was hand quilting it at the stroke of midnight 2000.  […]

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Will knows that he has to sleep in his bed during the week in order to have a sleepover in our room on Friday nights.  Last night he came into our bed.  I didn’t feel like taking him back and when I reminded him that he needed to go to his bed in order to […]

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Mom? Can you paint my toes? Only not purple. Purple is for girls. Will, admiring my purple toenail polish.

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I am in the dining room feeding Ellie and playing on the laptop. Will is in the living room watching cartoons. All of a sudden I hear a panicked voice: “MOM! This isn’t appropriate! I thought it was appropriate but it’s not!” I look over and he’s hiding under the sofa cushions. I look at […]

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