Yearly Archives: 2014

42 posts

Quick baby gift

A young couple we know has just had a first baby, an adorable little boy. 🙂 I needed to whip up a quick baby gift, and Craftsy published this cute pattern for a bib. It was quite easy to make, though I did make one modification: I put a layer […]

A Place for Everything

Remember this bag from about a year ago? I used it to take some quilting notions with me on the recent quilting cruise, and I’ve also used it for more local quilting events. However, it is limited in the size of things it will accommodate, so I decided to make its […]

What was I thinking?

If you’ve been reading my blog for any time at all, you know that I really like the patterns I’ve bought from Annie. I liked her Hold Everything Bag so much that I bought all of the supplies necessary to make her more recent A Place for Everything Bag, This […]

River cruise — the end

Last year my husband and I visited Amsterdam before taking a cruise to the Norwegian fjords. At that time, I was pretty disappointed not to see any of the “traditional” windmills; these days they are all the modern style, which isn’t nearly as picturesque — though I’m sure they’re much […]

River cruise, part 3

From Rüdesheim, we next traveled to Koblenz, still in Germany. There, my husband and I opted not to take the organized tour, which was apparently excellent, because of the amount of climbing we would have had to do. The cruise director recommended that only those who were experienced climbers attend, […]