Needles and a Pen » Knitting, Sewing, and Nursing School

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  • Welcome to my blog!

    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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half apron

My friend’s birthday party was last weekend, and she had mentioned after seeing my chicken skirt that she’d love an apron in that pattern.  So I knew just what to get her along with the new Bakerella book!

I made the pattern up as I went along, and will be posting a tutorial just as soon as I can get the weddings piled up on my hard drives down to a more reasonable level.  Picking up a last minute 2 day wedding this weekend didn’t help!

Fabric:  chickens and brown + white circles from the Monaluna Robert Kaufman line, yellow with white dots is also Robert Kaufman.

Susanne - Very cute and so thoughtful!

Bernadette - yay! I wear it all of the time! thank you so much, I love it!