A suprise gift.....and a letter to Santa....

Two days ago, an unexpected package arrived in the mail. On the outside, it was marked "Do Not Open Until Christmas". I could see it came from a good friend (Ev) in Michigan. I immediately emailed her and told her I'd gotten a package from her and told her she should NOT have sent me anything. She emailed back and said I should go ahead and open it...said when she saw this, she just had to get it for me. (She's not a quilter, I should add....but her daughter does a lot of sewing and Ev said her daughter loved this item when Ev showed it to her.) So........I unwrapped the gift and this is what I was delighted to find.....this 2010 quilt calendar. Isn't that great?Each month has another quilted piece on display...and after the December page, there are complete directions for making all 12 of the items. It is really a fun calendar and will hang in my sewing room....and I plan on making several of the items shown on the calendar. Below are a few sample pages. Needless to say, I got back in touch with Ev and told her, "I LOVE my gift!!!"
Now...you will excuse me while I write my letter to Santa. He has told the people at the Fat Quarter Shop (click HERE) that he will be reading all the letters and will grant a few requests. So...here goes...


Dear Santa, you jolly, plump, old elf (whom I am resembling lately in plumpness, but...I digress).......I have discovered, to my dismay, this past fall that I really don't have a nice Thanksgiving-type quilted wall hanging and something needs to be done about that. I therefore request that you might stop by the FQ Shop and bring to my house a "Gobble Gobble jelly roll". See...isn't it wonderful? Keep reading as I have more to say yet to you.
I could do very nice things with that jelly roll, so I hope you will read my letter and act on it. I find myself wondering if there is any connection between the name of the shop...you know....FAT Quarter Shop and your size (and mine, of course, too).....hehehe......OOOPS....sorry, that was kind of naughty of me to say that, wasn't it? Would it help if I said I'd leave you an extra-special treat and some nice tummy-warming beverage, like spiked egg-nog, on Christmas Eve??? Or maybe I could leave you and Mrs. Claus an open invitation to visit us in the warm weather in our nice, beachy area of southern Delaware??? hehehe.....you know...just a little bribery.....whatever it takes. (Uh-oh....there I go being naughty again.....*sigh*) Your plump and always adoring friend -- PAT