Weekend Projects and a Sneak Peak

This past week was an exciting but long week of classes. On Monday I used my Christmas gift card to take a Rotary Cutting Class in Humble at It's a Stitch. Wednesday I started back at Sam Houston State for my last semester of undergrad.
Then on Thursday I went to my favorite shop Quilters Crossing in Tomball for a bag class. The bag was the Bowtucks Tote and the teacher was Margaret Grice. Margaret is a wonderful teacher I learned so much from her class. I look forward to taking more classes from her in the future.
The bag was very fun to make and I think it might be the beginning of my bag making addiction! I used Michael Miller's bonehead fabric on it. I have been admiring this fabric for a while but couldn't figure out what to use it on. So when I signed up for this class I decided it would be the perfect fabric for the project.
I'm trying to decide what bag to try next. I really want to make an Amy Butler bag but I'm kind of intimidated by her patterns. Being a beginner I'm not as good at reading patterns and understanding what they are trying to tell me to do. But I'm getting better.
So the rest of my weekend has taken up by two other projects. The major one I'm trying to finish is my Moda Funky Monkey Baby Quilt for a baby shower in a few weekends. I am about 70% done with it. Right now I'm working on quilting it and then I just have the binding left! Here's another sneak peak of it.
I'm also working on some other baby shower stuff since I'm helping throw two showers in the next three weeks. So right now I'm working on making another pair of baby booties! Oh and did I mention that I'm a bridesmaid in my good friends wedding in two weeks!! I'm super excited for her! So that means three weekends in a row full of events.
Well I guess it's goodbye to the weekend and hello to the week. I hope everyone had a great weekend!

Another sneak peak

Here is another sneak peak of my Moda Funky Monkey Baby Quilt that I worked on this past weekend. It still needs the outer border but I think I will keep that a secret a little longer! Let me know what you think of it so far.

I also thought I'd share what I got at Quilters Crossing:

The Michael Miller Plaidsporation fabric and the Michael Miller guitar fabric is for some other baby gifts, lots of baby boys coming this year.

The Michael Miller Bonehead Fabric and the turquoise swirls fabric is for the class I'm taking at Quilters Crossing - Bowtucks Tote.

The 8 pack of fat quarters is the door prize I won!!!!

Sneak Peak.....

So here's a sneak peak of what I'm working on this weekend. It's a gift for a baby boy that will be born in the Spring. I don't want to ruin the surprise so I will leave off the name and exact relation! I fell in love with Moda's Funky Monkey Collection. So I have used it for this quilt. Since I am a beginner the pattern is from Alex Alexander's Start Quilting book. I have been working my way through this book trying to do every pattern. So for this quilt I used Alex's square dance pattern. However, being the quirky person I am I have changed the pattern up some to make it the way I want it.


Of course no project is complete without my little helper, so here is a sneak peak of her by my side last night while I was working on it!


More sneak peaks of this quilt to come soon!