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

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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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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 luck finding it.  Last night I gave it another big effort, and turned my attention to the office closet that holds most of my old craft supplies.  I finally found it, along with two other patterns, a sewing necklace I made in high school, and a bag of fabric with five prints…one of them the coveted pez print from Peas & Carrots!

I was so excited to see a ‘hard to find’ print from a period I thought I’d missed out on!  I looked at the stack long enough to remember buying them for the purse pattern–I hadn’t been able to decide on the floral print or the pez fabric, and so I bought both with enough coordinating fabric to make two bags.  Of course, I wish the pez had been the coordinating fabric so that I’d have a yard of it instead of just 1/3 of a yard!  But I’ll take what I can get!

I’ve asked my mom for this sewing pattern so I can make another one.  It’s a handy little accessory to have!

And I’ll add to my list making the pez bag I had intended to make and maybe I’ll even make the floral version, too!

Lee - No way! I wish I would magically discover some Pez in my closet. : )