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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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I love Riley Blake fabric.  It’s pretty much the only fabric around that appeals to me even while being geared toward little boys.  I love love love the Wheels fabric line, and had this fabric stack on my desk for a long time before it got pieced this summer.

I used a big piece of my favorite print in this line for the back–a perfect play mat.  Will requested that it have ‘lots of colors’ so we pulled out a bunch of kona solids for this one.

The pattern is adapted from the Avalon quilt in the Material Obsession book.  I cut out the fourth row so that it’s a square.

The quilt is big–each of the squares is HUGE.

He likes it.

susanne - Love it! Material Obsession is great!

Mom - Love it! And your quilting is also amazing!! I’m jealous!

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Edith - I am partial to car fabric from having boys, My little one would love this.