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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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Category Archives: fabric

bring it on, 2011. bring. it. on.

2010 was a fantastic year.  It had its ups (Ellie’s birth), its downs (when Nic totaled the Jeep two days before Christmas) and lots of working and sewing in between.  It was a great crafting year for me–in January I spent a lot of time knitting baby items for Ellie, spent the spring working on […]

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merry christmas to me!

I was stalking the UPS man pretty hard core yesterday, because I was expecting my very own SHERBET PIPS!!!!! I got a fat quarter pack and a layer cake because I knew I wouldn’t be able to cut into one without having the other.  (And a PS to Moda–fabric is hard enough to cut into […]

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Featured on Gen X Quilters | It’s a Hoot Give-Away

Today I am the featured quilter on Gen X Quilters!   To any new readers–welcome!  Please leave a note–I love them, and always try to respond!  I hope you’ll stop back often! To celebrate, I’m having a little give-away of one of my current favorite things:  an It’s a Hoot charm pack!  (I love them SO […]

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“there will always be cute fabric”

Sometimes it’s hard to let fabric go.  To let it go in the sense that you acknowledge its cuteness but know that you don’t need to purchase any more fabric, or to let it go in the sense that you’re actually going to cut into it and use it.  In times like that I try […]

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zoom quilt photos

I love Riley Blake fabric.  It’s pretty much the only fabric around that appeals to me even while being geared toward little boys.  I love love love the Wheels fabric line, and had this fabric stack on my desk for a long time before it got pieced this summer. I used a big piece of […]

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