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 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 luck, energy, and good wishes from all the families and friends who contributed a piece of fabric. The quilt is then passed down from generation to generation.
On the "April DTC" Yahoo Group for Chinese adoptions a 100 Wishes Quilt project has been started. Basically, you have a list of people, each person sends each of the other participants a 7"x7" square of fabric. When you receive all of your squares, you can make a quilt with all of the different fabrics. You then take the index cards and either put them in a scrapbook, or a nice index card box so that when the baby is older it can see all the good wishes that were made for them....
If anyone out there reading this would like to send me a square and a wish for the baby, please email me. I would love to put your square in my quilt.
Ahhhhhhh the ways to keep busy while waiting for our daughter......
Sunday, April 10, 2005
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
6 comments:
Stacey:
This is the Old Prof in Carmel.
We are wondering if you are related to Donald Teague.
We wish you the best on your adoption adventure.
OldProf and She
p-henry@comcast.net
www.oldprof.com
HI Stacey!
I am totally into keeping up with the adoption of your little girl. I have actually spent many hours online reading other stories of families going through the same advenure as you are. I would love to be part of your quilt..Kim Dunn
OK So my Mom is getting into the quilt thing too..so she is looking for the perfect piece of cloth..she is really happy for you! Go Raberta!
Hi Stacey, I'm going fabric shopping this weekend, so let me know where to send your squares and wishes. And I'm going to start a quilt too.
Take care,
Mary-Mia
Do They Have Salsa in China?
Stacy,
I am finally getting my act together as far as these 100 GWQ, and have finally gone out looking at fabric! I would love to send you fabric and a wish for your quilt, if you are still looking for some. Let me know. My email
Lisa
Our Journey to Baby Shanahan
Stacey,
I did not realize you have so much stuff on your web site. For some reason I thought I would get an e-mail every time you had a new entry or something happened. I guess not! I would love to be part of your quilt! I’ll send you this adorable fabric I found and my wish for the baby.
Love Kandi
Post a Comment