{"id":211,"date":"2013-07-31T14:33:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T18:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/50.87.217.193\/blog\/creative-nudge-hearts-and-good-wishes"},"modified":"2015-03-07T00:07:46","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T00:07:46","slug":"creative-nudge-hearts-and-good-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equilter.com\/blog\/creative-nudge-hearts-and-good-wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Nudge – Hearts and Good Wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\"SophieQuilts_550\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Last week while I was at the Not
\nFade Away<\/a> conference, someone asked me if we had received a 100
\nGood Wishes Quilt<\/a> ("Bai-Jia-Bei") while we were waiting for
\nSophie's adoption. This is a Northern Chinese<\/a>
\ntradition of friends and family contributing 100 squares of special fabric
\n(each with a prayer attached) to be made into a Welcome Quilt for the baby. The
\nquilt is meant to bring good luck, health and positive energy to the baby who
\nwill be wrapped in the special quilt, and the quilt becomes a future family heirloom.<\/p>\n

Rummaging around in my photo files this week, I came across this photo of
\nSophie just a couple days after we came home from China. She has TWO special
\nquilts in this photo, and I thought you might like to know the story.<\/p>\n

I belong to a private small quilt list that formed many years ago because we
\nwere tired of mean nasty people flaming on some other lists. Life is too short
\nto waste time on people who are bullies or curmudgeons online. I joined this
\nlist 15 years ago, because one of the rules was that nobody was allowed to say
\nanything mean to another member on the list. That's my kind of quilt list!<\/p>\n

Anyway, unbeknownst to me, while we waited for the adoption to go through, my
\nonline friends (who I had never met in person at that time) all contributed a
\nblock and made us their own version of a Good Wishes Quilt. In this photo,
\nSophie is sleeping on this quilt, which is so full of love and kindness.<\/p>\n

The quilt on top of Sophie was originally given to me at a baby shower when I
\nwas pregnant with Mason. (24 years ago) As soon as we were matched with a baby
\nin early 2003, and could send a care package to her in China, I wrote her Chinese<\/a>
\nname in Sharpie on this Hearts quilt, and shipped
\nit off to the orphanage in China<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Two
\nmonths later when they put Sophie into my arms for the very first time<\/a>, she
\nwas wrapped in this Hearts quilt. So in this photo she is sandwiched between
\nthese two very special quilts.<\/p>\n

I think the Hearts quilt was the first seed that was planted, on my journey to
\nbecome a quilter. <\/p>\n

So you never know, when you give the gift of a quilt, what might unfold in the
\nyears to come…<\/p>\nShare Post:<\/strong>
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