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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: quilts

Look what came in the mail on Friday!

Monday, September 13, 2010 Posted in quilts

I re-caught the fabric bug too late to catch the Flea Market Fancy fabric line, but I was up early enough one morning this week to snatch up this amazing quilt by Ashley of Film in the Fridge.  It’s exactly what I’ve been wanting to make for baby/kiddo shoots, so I had to test it […]

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Ellie’s baby quilt

Sunday, September 12, 2010 Posted in quilts

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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Because three blogs just aren’t enough.

Friday, September 10, 2010 Posted in quilts

I have been in love with fabric since I first stepped into Aunt Jemimah’s fabric shop in Lancashire as a 13 year old American living in England.  While other kids were out doing immeasurably cool teenage things, my sister and I were stealing my mom’s quilting class book and using our allowances to build our […]

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