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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

WIP: distactions

Ellie was not in the best mood this afternoon and since I wasn’t able to do anything productive, I figured we could at least play with some fabric stacks.  Am loving this combo and know EXACTLY what I want to do with it. But first I have to make Ellie’s Halloween costume.  One kid’s down, […]

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drawing with my sewing machine

I’m practicing free motion sewing on my machine.  It’s something I want to master, because I absolutely love little pieces of art like this (click on image for source): I’ve been obsessed with bunting lately, and wanted to make a mug rug with rainbow bunting.  All of a sudden this afternoon I realized that a […]

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crushed dreams

(Okay, the title is a little mellow-dramatic, but with a fabric line called ‘dream on’ it just begs for a lot of word-play.) Last night I stole two hours for a little sewing so that my brain wouldn’t explode in a mess of wedding photos.  I was thrilled with how quickly this came together, but […]

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dreaming up a dream on quilt

I have a Moda Dream On charm pack that pushed its way to the front of the project queue last night.  I absolutely love the fabrics, but the finished projects I’ve seen on flickr have left me a little bummed out and stumped on how to use them.  They have a vintage tablecloth/bedsheet look to […]

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stash: too pretty to cut (farmdale)

Stupid work is getting in the way of my sewing time this week–October is always a massively busy editing time, but a time of very little inspiration or motivation.   (Which means that by tomorrow I should be cranking out another pair of 10 Minute Cranky Pants around midnight). Since the only thing leaving my […]

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stash: will’s next quilt

Once Will’s car quilt is finished, this will be his next blankie–a Castle Peeps quilt (with some Wee Woodlands stripes and Riley Blake Cheery Circles thrown in for good measure). This quilt was the forerunner for the longest time: until I found this one: Now I’m torn.  🙂

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