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Wishing for Wishes    Wishes for Sophie

“When you love someone, all your saved-up wishes start coming out.” -Elizabeth Bowen
 

To welcome and celebrate the birth of a baby in China, there is a tradition to make a Bai Jia Bei or “100 Good Wishes Quilt”. It is customary to invite 100 family members and friends to contribute a single square of fabric. The 100 pieces of fabric are then sewn together into a quilt. The quilt contains the luck, energy, blessings and good wishes of all who contributed. It is then given to the baby and is intended to be passed down from generation to generation. We would love to wrap little Sophie in 100 good wishes when she comes home!

Here’s how to contribute:

1. Choose any 100% cotton fabric that you like. It can be any color, pattern or print. The fabric you choose for the quilt will represent your wish or blessing for Sophie. If there are several members in your family, please feel free to contribute a note and piece of fabric for each family member.

2. Cut an 8” square.

3. On any type of card or cardstock, write or type your wish for Sophie and attach a small piece of the same fabric to the card. Your wish can be a favorite scripture, a quote, a poem, something written by you or any combination of these. All wishes will be place in a memory book for her to treasure throughout her life.

4. As we want plenty of time to complete Sophie's quilt and memory book before bringing her home from China, we would like to collect all fabric and wishes by October 2007.

Thank you for taking the time to help us create this very special keepsake for our new daughter. The miracle of her adoption has been nurtured by so many of our loving family members and friends. Your contribution will be so meaningful to her and to our family. We plan to finish the quilting using red thread to represent an ancient Chinese belief. We have felt the red thread, like so many others, pulling our hearts to China.
 

“An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet,
regardless of time, place or circumstance. The thread may stretch
or tangle, but will never break.” -Ancient Chinese Proverb

“What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes?
Lots of things, and it may take months or years for a wish to come true,
but it’s far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that
you’ll do all you can to make it happen.” –Fred Rogers

“This is my wish for you. Comfort on difficult days, smiles when sadness intrudes, rainbows to follow the clouds, laughter to kiss your lips, sunsets to warm your heart, hugs when spirits sag, beauty for your eyes to see, friendship to brighten your being, faith so that you can believe, confidence for when you doubt, courage to know yourself, patience to accept the truth, love to complete your life.” –unknown
 

“You are never given a wish without being given the power to make it come true.” –Richard Bach

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