Squish #5

From family friends Jerome and Betty



The wish reads:

To William Ke-Fan,

May you grow up to be a nice person like your parents. We hope you learn a lot about your Great Grandma and Great Grandpa who were great friends of ours. We went on many trips with them and loved every minute of it.

Best wishes always,
Jerome and Betty

Squish #4

From cousins Paul and Marcia



The full wish reads:

Dear William Ke-Fan,

We are so happy that you are part of our family. We have many, many wonderful memories of times we shared with your Grandparents and with your Great-Grandparents. And your Mom spent many fun days with all of us here during her college breaks.

Love to you, Paul and Marcia

Squish #3

From cousins Mary and Sarah

Squish #2

From my friend, Jennifer. We were college roommates.

Squish #1

From our friends, Zach, Yuan and Aly

Collecting for over a year...

I have been collecting fabric and wishes for over a year now and have 33 squishes (squares and wishes) so far. Most of these are from family and friends.

OHGWQ Group

I recently joined a yahoo group for people making 100 Good Wishes Quilts. It is a good place to swap fabric and wishes, share ideas about quilting, and get tips on putting together the scrapbook album for the wishes. Several of the members of this group have created websites to document their quilts. I had such fun looking through their fabric and wishes that I decided to create a website for William's quilt. For now, I will post pictures of the fabric and wishes that we receive. Later on, I will post updates on the progress of the quilt.

Here are some examples of 100 Good Wishes Quilts:

http://members.cox.net/~joannanorman/quilt/photos.html

http://originalquilts.com/100_good_wishes_quilts.htm

You don't have to be an adoptive parent to make a 100 Good Wishes Quilt. It turns out that people are making them for the birth of a child, birthday gift, Christmas gift, to help with the loss of a loved one, etc. If you are interested in joining the OHGWQ yahoo group, go to:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/OHGWQ/join.