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

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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: bags

Sew Together Bag | Take 2

My sister was diagnosed last month with breast cancer, and I wanted to give her something special on her first day of chemo. Since she is amazing at hand sewing (applique being her specialty) I wanted to make her a sew together bag! I used the lessons I learned from the first bag and added […]

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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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a laundry bag for scrubs

I wear scrubs six out of every seven days.  Six days a week I wear scrubs and then on Tuesdays my jeans and I have a talk about how my current lifestyle is not without consequences. I launder my scrubs separately from regular clothing because my nursing school whites require a serious amount of bleach […]

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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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A little bit of sewing

The biggest thing I did this year was this: I finished all of my nursing school prerequisites with a 4.0 and got a job as a CNA at the birth center of our local hospital.   And also I kept up to date with Project Life, which anyone can tell you is a miracle. (This is […]

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