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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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lucky find quilt

Hey look at that!  Exactly one day shy of a year since my last post and here I am again!  It’s been so long I couldn’t even remember the url to log in to write this post.

Anyway, the last year has been devoid of blog posts but not of crafting.  Let’s start with this quilt.  I found the top while cleaning out the studio closet a few weeks ago.  I’d completely forgotten about it.  Completely.  But I was inspired to quilt and bind it and here it is, all pretty and crinkley!

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Made from a few Strawberry Fields charm packs from Moda, it’s a nice lap quilt size.  I used a light taupe for the back and a taupe and white striped binding I already had made (leftovers from another quilt binding).  My first choice would have been a binding that popped, but you can’t beat bias binding already made!