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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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Yearly Archives: 2010

Ellie’s baby quilt

Ellie’s baby quilt was my first ‘breaking the rules’ quilt.  I started small–just breaking the “quilt finishing” rules that I hate anyway.  I didn’t use batting or binding–just made the top from a Moda charm pack, slapped some bright pink fleece on the back, ran a couple of lines of quilting through it and called […]

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glamgarden bag

I was seduced by the Practicality Bag pattern for one very important reason: it involves no interfacing or canvas lining.  Huzzah!  It makes a great diaper bag, but next time I might sew a zippered pocket into it because I do worry about my phone falling out of it since it’s so floppy. Pattern:  Practicality […]

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Every so often, some stranger will say that Will looks “just like his dad.”  And when they say that, I smile and nod, but I have to fight off the strangest urge to punch them in the face and say “take it back!  he looks like ME!”  This is probably because I think Will is […]

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