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 .

    I've created a map that shows links to our camping/hiking/general family fun review posts that you can find here. It's pretty much the coolest thing on this site. Thanks, Google!

    I great big puffy heart *love* comments, so please let me know you visited! I try to always reply!

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When Google Reader went away a couple of years ago I pretty much stopped reading blogs.  I tried BlogLovin but I found that I never went to the website.  I just found out about their app this week, though, and it’s amazing!  They’ve also really spruced up the website in the last few years and it’s spot on in making recommendations to me for new blogs.  Anyway, if you are like me and still at an RSS feeder loss post Google Reader, no need.  It’s actually a lot better than Google Reader ever was!

And since a blog post with no pictures is boring, here is proof that self control doesn’t last forever.  I finally gave into Cotton and Steel.  (I’m actually impressed I held out this long, but I need more quilting fabric like a hole in my head.)  Little note: the photo was clearly staged.  I was nervous having the rotary cutter so close to these piles.  Like I’ll ever actually cut into this precious fabric!

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Susanne - Holy Heaven, thank you!! I stopped reading blogs too, after the death of Google Reader. Who has time to type all of those words into the search bar?

Becky - I too panicked when google buried Reader for seemingly no reason at all. But then I found Digg Reader, which is simple, free, and fun. That’s how I get all my blogs now. If you miss being able to quickly scroll through a hundred new craft blog posts, you should try it!