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    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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Monthly Archives: August 2018

Baa-ble hat pattern take two

When you love a knit as much as this one, you pretty much immediately have to make a second!  I wanted to see how this blue would look as the sky, and I love it!  My only disappointment in my second baa-ble is that I made an actually babble this time (the world’s most expensive […]

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linen knitting bag

Three years ago I made this knitting bag and I finally got around to making my sister-in-law one as a birthday gift.  I just love the combination of the linen with this floral.  The pattern is a bit fussy to make (there has got to be an easier way!) but I love the result!

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Baa-ble Hat Knitting Pattern Review

The free baa-ble hat pattern was released for Shetland Wool Week in 2015, and it has been on my To Do list ever since.  After finishing my Mind the Gap socks I got to celebrate by casting on a new project (never mind the others already in work) and I knew I wanted to take […]

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Girl Friday Calendar Review + Installation Tips

I searched for a modern calendar for our mud room for over a year before finding the Girl Friday acrylic calendars that were EXACTLY what I was looking for!  I spent another month angsting over the cost before doing a commercial photography shoot and getting the calendar as a present for myself. When it arrived, […]

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