Craft Bits — A Knitting Vacay, Gardening Apps, $150,000 Quilt

Are mash-up vacations a rising trend? If so, sailing company J. & E. Riggin is on the cutting edge. The Maine vacation company hosts knitting retreats aboard its 120-foot schooner. Classes start at about $600 and host 24 new and experienced knitters for up to 6 days. Word is still out if crocheters are allowed to come along, too.

This time of year, gardening dreams start popping up like sunny daffodills, and what better way to plan your summer garden than with your BFF, the iPhone? From plotting the garden to deciding which veggies to grow, the New York Times has the ten best gardening apps for iOS and Android phones. 

Busy moms, rejoice! From homemade whoopie pies (or gobs for those from western PA) to DIY pixie sticks and gluten-free fudge cookies, NPR has found quick and surprisingly trendy goodies for your next bake sale. 

For the price of a house, you could buy this Kentucky Wildcats basketball quilt, complete with every coach and players' name from the program's beginning in 1903 embroidered on it. But $150,000, really? Quilt designer Darleene Wimsett believes that after working on the quilt for 18 years, she deserves to see a little moolah. 

Thanks to D.C's city-wide Emancipation Day, this year's tax deadline falls on April 16th. A bevy of fast food joints will offer commiseration coupons in honor of the "holiday." Maggie Moo's, for example, will give away a scoop of frozen yogurt, which we'll flavor with Seattle's Best free Tax Day coffee and a drizzling of curly fries from Arby's, free if you cry loud enough.