Make-A-List Monday: back online and a giveaway!

It's amazing and sad how much more I got done last week without my computer to distract me. It's back, but I think I'm going to kick the facebook habit for good. I didn't miss out on much, so why do I check it eight times a day. My blog stalking is a totally different story, as is Pinterest, but at least I learn things and am inspired.

Ugh. I digress. I need to stop that. Here's what was on my list last week:

• Pressing prep for cutting day on Saturday (more on this tomorrow)

No before pictures of the pressed fabric, but golly gee willikers did I bust through some prep work. Here's what I cut:

• Six trick-or-treat bags
• Two Halloween quilts (the zig zag and the spider web)
• My Gypsy Girl squares
• The background fabric for my Ready Set Snow Christmas quilts
• The rest of my 3 Richard Scarry quilts
• The pieces for the Max and Whiskers quilt for my nephew
• The background and border fabric for my SW Taffy quilt
• My tree skirt

Awesome, right?  Here's a picture of all the prep work I did, in their handy dandy little containers (by the way - I LOVE these containers for organizing projects - and only $1 at Target or Fred Meyer):

• Sew together Lucy's Crab Shack triangles (at least the first 8 rows)

Over the course of the week, I busted out all 16 rows and now the top is done:

• Press Halloween HSTs

Done, and took it two steps further. I sewed them into their zig zags and now I'll be piecing the top together.

• Press spiderweb quilt strips

Done and cut into triangles. My daughter wants to help me lay it all out, and I say "Amen!" to that.

• Plan and start a birthday dress for my baby girl who turns ONE in two weeks! 

Not done. She's got plenty of new dresses, and I'd rather spend my clothes sewing efforts on Christmas dresses for both my girls. Is it too cheesy to want to have my boys coordinate?

So that was last week. On to this week!

• Piece Halloween zig zag top
• Piece spider web top
• Cut and sew five candy corn pillowcases for my little monsters
• Piece red minky back for the R2D2 quilt (yes, I actually got my hands on some!)
• Piece orange minky back for zig zag quilt
• Piece red minky back for Easy as Cake quilt
• Take pictures for 4Q FAL post (tomorrow!) - which also means doing a lot of ironing for said pictures

There. That should be sufficient, seeing as how I've got a first birthday party to plan and execute for next Saturday. Pretty excited around here for that, let me tell you!

I'm also feeling giveaway-ish today. Who would like to win a bag stuffed to the gills (can you stuff a bag to the gills?) of the leftovers from my Halloween bags? All from the new Happy H-owl-oween collection.

Lots of big pieces (all were cut from fat quarters). I can fit it into a Priority padded envelope, so be a follower and leave me a Halloween comment: favorite candy, costume, tradition. I'll announce a winner on Saturday!