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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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Category Archives: knitting

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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Donder and Blitzen hat

Remember when I used to make lots of stuff?  Me, too.  That was nice.  Oh well.  There’s a season for everything, right? I thought I’d share this Christmas hat that I’ve been poking along with.  I started it late in the Christmas season and had hoped to finish it before the semester started, but got […]

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knitting bag

A few months ago my sister-in-law sent me a link to this adorable bag on Etsy.  I knew I could probably figure out how to make one, but I feel strongly about compensating people for awesome ideas, so I asked the seller if she’d considered making a pattern for it.  As luck would have it, […]

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Teaching Kids to Knit

Ellie’s been asking to sew and knit for…well…as long as she could speak.  She’s five now, and since child labor laws were put in place partly to prevent five year olds from professionally knitting for 12 hours a day, I figured it was time to pour myself a glass a wine, pretend I am patient, […]

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