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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: fabric

fabric stacks: inspiring versus stressful

This pretty little combination reminds me of spring and inspires me: This stack–my ‘inbox’ for clothes I plan to sew–has grown too large and instead of inspiring, it stresses me out.  I desperately need to stop adding projects to my pile and complete the projects already planned.  My eyes are always bigger than the hours […]

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next up…some handwork

I am really excited to start an English Paper Piecing project this week.  I’m using mainly 30s reproduction fabrics that I’ve stashed over the years (though I have a feeling there are a couple I’ve missed–I need to dig a little deeper and I’m hoping my mom still has a scrap or two left over […]

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innocent crush charm pack giveaway

Time for a giveaway!  I’m celebrating three things today: (1) finishing the vacation video/slideshow that I’ve spent weeks on, (2) the almost end of March [my least favorite month–winter is just too long], and (3) according to google reader I am just 5 people shy of having 200 blog followers!  So it’s time to giveaway […]

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secret treasures

Even during the decade when I wasn’t quilting, I occasionally wandered into a fabric shop and bought a pattern or yard or two of fabric.  A few years ago I bought a portabellopixie pattern that I have been looking for for a few months.  I knew it had to be somewhere, but hadn’t had any […]

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hope valley string quilt indecision

When I began quilting again this past summer, I spent a lot of time pouring over the gorgeous quilts at Film in the Fridge.  I absolutely adored the combination of Hope Valley and charcoal in this quilt, and loving the string quilts, I decided that I would make a Hope Valley string quilt with charcoal […]

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