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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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Category Archives: fabric

march

I know it’s starting to feel like spring for many of you, but for Coloradans, March looks like this: So it was under the influence of all of this snow and cold that I pulled together this perfectly acceptable in stack form fabric grouping. The one that later drove me to drink.  I sewed the […]

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reentry.

We’re alive.  I swear.  I managed to post while at Disney, I had posts all scheduled to go so there wouldn’t be any interruption…but I didn’t realize what I really needed were posts for our return!  Not only did we have the usual laundry/unpacking/picking up the chaos we left behind, but I’ve been doing the […]

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branching out

I was recently at a fabric store in the Springs that sells a lot of non-quilting fabrics.  Their anniversary sale (and the pretty colors) convinced me to go out on a limb and purchase some new fabrics.  As I’m tackling more and more clothing, I’m really wanting to branch out into apparel type fabrics.  Here […]

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wip: stroller blanket

We are headed to Disney soon and I wanted to make a stroller blanket that will attach to Ellie’s stroller so she can’t kick it off (she loathes any attempts at covering–socks, shoes, hats, blankets all immediately end up on the ground).   I have some navy fleece that I bought to make myself pajama pants, […]

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swap stacks

I’m participating in the Urban Home Goods and Spice up the Kitchen swaps (though I refuse to write them out with all of their extra symbols–it makes me feel a gang member).  I played with the stash this morning and came up with a stack for my Urban Home Goods partner that I like so […]

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liebster blog

If you’ve been hanging out in blogland this week, you probably already know about the Liebster Blog award.  It’s a way of sharing information about smaller blogs (fewer than 300 followers)–a way for us little guys to give the nod to other little guys!  🙂 Brooke of Pitter Putter Stitch was sweet enough to send […]

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