Beautiful Asian fans from the Jackson family in CT
Monday, May 21, 2007
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Can You Spare a Square?
Family and Friends,
I recently learned of a custom, originating in the northern part of China. It’s tradition to make a “One Hundred Good Wishes Quilt, or Bai Jia Bei as it’s called in Chinese, to celebrate a new life in a family.
To create this quilt, one asks one hundred people to each contribute a single square patch of cloth. The 100 patches are sewn together into a quilt that contains the luck and good wishes from all those family members and friends.
I am beginning to gather patches for a quilt for our daughter. Would you consider contributing a square or two of cloth along with a separate written wish or prayer for this child on a small card or piece of paper? Wish can be written on a 3X5 card, but no larger than 4X6. Please attach a small square of the fabric to the wish card. These wishes will be going into a scrapbook, and when Sophie gets older she can match the squares of the quilt to the wishes in the scrapbook.
The size of the squares is "8X8”. The material should be a cotton fabric, either printed or solid – you make the choice. You can contribute an old scrap of cloth, or you can use a new piece of material. A wider variety of fabrics and colors will make the quilt more interesting. Anything goes – as life is an unexpected patchwork of happenings and events.
I would greatly appreciate the material and wishes you could send for our daughter. They will be treasured forever.