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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: May 2011

5 minute skirt (with pattern notes)

I bought this red fabric about 100 years ago to make the ‘5 minute skirt’ tutorial from Angry Chicken. It’s a bias cut a line skirt with a fold over elastic waistband and rolled hem.  I finally made the skirt this weekend.  I’m just plowing through old projects! It’s okay.  It’s certainly fast, and I […]

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I couldn’t figure out why Ellie likes Rugrats so much (when she normally is only moderately interested in cartoon-only type shows) until I realized that Angelica is her idol. 

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next up…some handwork

I am really excited to start an English Paper Piecing project this week.  I’m using mainly 30s reproduction fabrics that I’ve stashed over the years (though I have a feeling there are a couple I’ve missed–I need to dig a little deeper and I’m hoping my mom still has a scrap or two left over […]

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fancy pants kitchen towels

TUTORIAL FOR THESE TOWELS IS LOCATED HERE Another long-time-coming kitchen project crossed off the list!  I used this tutorial for making some kitchen towels to tie to the oven–I’m pretty sure the white towels I used were even the exact ones from the tutorial (bar mop towels from Target). While I love the look of […]

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