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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 .

    I've created a map that shows links to our camping/hiking/general family fun review posts that you can find here. It's pretty much the coolest thing on this site. Thanks, Google!

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sewing more pajama pants

I might have an addiction to sewing these fast pajama pants!  I already know the next two pairs I’m going to make him, which is stupid because last week he fell in love with fleece footie pajamas.  Last night I would have gotten these done even faster than 10 minutes, but I forgot about the directional fabric and one of the legs was upside down.  I follow the “it will never be noticed from a trotting horse” school of sewing.  If it isn’t something that would be noticed while trotting on by on horseback?  Let it go.  If it would?  Try again.  Upside down kids and snowmen?  Yeah–that’s noticeable.  Fabric is a 10 or 12 years old Alexander Henry print.  One more yard from my old stash bites the dust!

Susanne - Just sew some socks on those bad boys, he won’t know any better ; ) I wish I’d have know the temp applique trick last year!!! Um, No purple??? Clearly the people in the NW aren’t staying on top of the Husky’s gear!! ; )