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100 wishes quilt progress
                 

To welcome and celebrate a new life, there is a tradition in the northern part of China to make a Bai Jia Bei, or 100 Good Wishes Quilt. It is a custom to invite friends and family to contribute a patch of cloth with a wish/prayer/poem/verse or song for the baby. Part of the patch of cloth goes into the quilt for the baby, and the other part of the cloth can go into a scrapbook with the wish for the child. The quilt contains the prayers, luck, energy, and good wishes from all the families and friends who contributed a piece of fabric.
    Select a fabric that is meaningful to you, it doesn’t have to be new- a project you started but didn’t finish, a piece of clothing, something you thought was pretty at Walmart or if you are a parent it can be from a child’s clothing. (In China, these quilts were originally made from garments of family and friends, which would surround the child with luck/good wishes.)
      The purpose of the 100 Good wishes quilt is to create a quilt with each of the quilting squares associated with a specific person/wish. This type of quilt is common in China and has become popular in the Chinese adoption community.
      The person sending the piece of fabric also sends a wish on a piece of paper for a scrapbook for the person who will eventually receive the quilt. The wish can be for good health, something religious or some other positive life outcome. The square should be a 8x8 inch piece of fabric (or there about) then we can cut it to the correct size . It is ideal if you place a piece of the fabric on the paper containing the wish so that we can associate the wish with the fabric and the person who sent the fabric.
  The Wish: Your wish and the way it is presented can be as simple or as elaborate as you want it to be. The wish might be a prayer, favorite poem, a heart felt random thought, a Bible verse or a quote. You can write it on an index card, white paper, stationary, lined paper, acid free paper- whatever you like. You can hand write or use a computer, make it scrap-booky or stamped - whatever you like- this is your wish/prayer for our daughter, we want it to reflect your personality.Some of the wishes I have read include- I wish you love ,hope and happiness, I wish for you to find the love of God, I pray that God keep and protect you …… Let your personality shine!
    Thank you soo much for helping us out and if onyone else out there is also building a Bai Jei Bei I will gladly contribute to your project. Just sign my guestbook below.
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Aug 12 2007 07:55 pm
I'm collecting squishes for my little sister's quilt. If you would like to swap or contribute, that would be awesome. My email is xiii.the.black.cat.xiii@gmail.com . My blog for Reese is http://kaijinsbigsis.blogspot.com/
And our quilt blog is http://goodwishesforreese.blogspot.com/

Thanks!

Monica
Arkansas, USA

Jan 7 2007 08:42 pm
Hi Debbie, all the best in 2007 for all of you; I think of u often and always check in on your latest and wish u well; take care and will keep you in my prayers,Irma Murray

Jun 20 2006 08:40 pm
June 20th:   Hi I'm back to add a few more pics to this page and update the website a bit. Brouse around!

May 10 2006 04:51 am
  OK I decided I'm not going to number them all here on this page as I think I messed up already so hit the "quilt blog" and it will take you to a page where you can see the peices better. I will still build my virtual quilt on this page so come back and check it out.

May 6 2006 04:22 am
# 14 is From Ottawa, kinda cool that our file landed there today for translation with our agency! yahoo DTO (dossier to Ottawa)or DTT (dossier to translation)!

May 3 2006 04:55 pm
Ok here are some more #8 is from Regina,Saskatchewan,#9is from Oshawa , Ont. #10 is fron Montreal Quebec, #11 are 2 from Lee-Anne in Austraila ( she is my tech support for my blog!) I just sent a e-mail to the lady below to swap peices as she is also making a quilt! Isn't technology great!

May 3 2006 07:09 am
Hello, my name is Sindy and I'm from Nebraska, I loved your web-site
I noticed that you were still needing some swaps and so am I if you
are intrested send me a email with your info and I will get it out
this week. ladybuginnebraska@yahoo.com Thanks...Sindy  

Apr 28 2006 07:14 pm
April 26th: Number 5 peice came from Texas! Yea! I am having way too much fun.#6 is from Virginia Beach Va., #7 is from New Glasgo.

Apr 25 2006 03:17 pm
Today I recieved my 1st 2 peices from the States one from Michigan and   Minnisota. I got some fun material to trade with other adopting families while we were in Charlottetown today. I think I'm having way too much fun with this but hey it will keep my hands busy till I can did my fingers into her cute little belly.

Apr 24 2006 08:04 am
Your website is terrific and what a great way to keep your family feeling a part of a journey that at times can seem a little unexciting with all of the waiting. I love your idea of tracing your Grandma's hand for Baby Callie's Wishes scrapbook. Oh, I found your site after you posted your introduction to the One Hundred Good Wishes Quilt Yahoo group, and though it is wonderful to get wishes and fabric from your family to help tell the story of your daughter's quilt, the OHGWQ group is a lot fun too. I'm collecting for our second daughter from China, whom we are paperchasing for now. We brought home our oldest daughter last summer.

Good luck with your Provinicial appt this week.

Tassie Kowal
Bellingham WA USA

Apr 25 2006 05:24 am
Ok Thursday April 20th: I got my first quilt peice, from my grammie, She is 85, she gave me a pretty big peice   I asked for 8"x8" not 8'x8' just kidding I have done up a scrapbook page and with some of the fabric I'm going to trace her hand ( 85 not sure how long she will be with us) to put on the page and use the other part for the quilt. Then our daughter can put her hand on her great grammies! Stop tearing up now!!!
  I got my second peice from a lady in Ontairo who is also adopting.

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