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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: 2011

smocked dress from weekend sewing (by heather ross)

I finished Ellie’s ‘smocked dress’ from Weekend Sewing (since I’m busiest in the summer I am trying to get all of the summer clothes that I want to make for her done in the winter).  But before going further I will say that this isn’t a smocked dress, it’s a shirred dress…and if you don’t […]

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Ellie has a cold.  A snot-running-down-her-face kind of cold.  Which prompts lots of “ELLIE!  You’re GROSS!” from Will as he then runs to get her a tissue.

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yard sale wrap skirt from heather ross’s weekend sewing

Look what I made! It ties. It twirls. It has a rolled hem and serged seams! That’s right–I broke out my brand new (old) serger for this one!  After months of Craigslist stalking (seriously–I logged on every night for months to do national searches) I found a Baby Lock Imagine on Craigslist for $300 (they […]

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a little break

I’m going to take a little internet break this week.  Feeling a little down, so I’m going to unplug for a while.  🙂  Here’s a peek at my apron for my spice up the kitchen swap partner.

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