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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A crazy thing happened today called: I finished another project!  I worked on this one for a year and a half off and on (and started it about 8 times before I had the lace pattern right).  This was my piano lesson project mainly because (a) it took me so long to get the pattern memorized so it wasn’t very fun to work on and so forcing myself to work on it once a week was good and (b) when it was on the needles and unblocked it looked like I was knitting a very long lace condom and so I tried not to work on it in public because Catholics have enough PR problems–no one needs me out in public knitting two foot long lace condoms.

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Next up on my crazy finishing-what-I-started campaign will hopefully be these Mind the Gap socks.  I need to rip out the toe because they are a smidgeon too short, and since frogging is always depressing it’s been something I’ve been avoiding.  But it’s time.  Time to FINISH ALL THE THINGS!

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