Needles and a Pen » Knitting, Sewing, and Nursing School

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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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“my blankie!”

I totally forgot about this flannel quilt for a long time because it was living at preschool as Will’s nap quilt.  When it came home to be washed I forgot to send it back, and when I picked Will up she mentioned that he had been asking for “his blankie.”  And when I handed it to him the next morning to take with him, he said “My blankie!”  Apparently it’s his!

This is another quilt I made in a weekend my senior year of highschool.  I wish I hadn’t done quilt-in-the-ditch for it, though–the flannel is so fragile that it’s torn away from the quilting in some areas and needs repair.  Will keeps reminding me about it–asking to fix it with my “fixing ba-chine” (my sewing machine is always referred to as my “fixing” machine by Will).