Happy New Year!

I would like to thank all my customers and friends for all your support and encouragement with Lunch Box Quilts this past year. I enjoyed a year of meeting all of you especially at Bernina University and in Houston at the International Quilt Market. My new year’s resolution, along with the usual exercise and lose weight resolution, will be to maintain this blog and let you know what’s in the works.

With the release of the Everything Baby pattern, I have been busy making a few more samples of the quilt for trunk shows and teaching samples. It is time to start a new quilt design. There have been many suggestions and requests for the next Lunch Box Quilt. I will take all the suggestions into consideration, sit down with my fabric stash and see what develops.

I started off my new year with a two day 12 mile backpacking trip in the Superstitions Mountains of Arizona with my husband, Mike and two sons, Zach and Nick. Let it be known that Mike, Zach and Nick are all experienced backpackers. I am not! Carrying a backpack for six miles in one day is hard work. Now I have hauled pounds of fabric out of stores, vender malls and through airport security, but I had motivation. We’re talking fabric! Although I may never experience the complete joy that my family had hiking, eating freeze dried food and sleeping on the ground, I am glad I took the trip. I did something new and challenging and spent time with family.

Try something new this year. I have, this blog and a backpacking trip. You might find out once you get going it is not as hard as you thought.

Keep your sewing machine stitching!

Angie