100 Good Wishes Quilt
Project 2000

Linda Mitchell sent this photo of the quilt she made for her daughter Jenna. She used a wonderful traditional pattern called "Grandmother's Flower Garden". Linda explains, "This pattern is from colonial days but became popular again in the 1930's. It's what's known as a "paper-pieced" quilt. First, hundreds of paper hexagons are drawn on paper and cut out. Then, each colored "square" was wrapped around a hexagon and basted to the paper. Seven color pieces were hand-stiched together to create a "flower". Flowers were surrounded by cream-colored hexagons made in the same way until the quilt top of 28 "flowers" was formed."

Linda hand-stitched the whole quilt. Then her friend Eileen Callahan added a layer of warm batting and a back to the quilt. The back of the quilt features a fabric with ladybugs!

David and Jean Walker sent us photos of their daughter Maggie Elisabeth's quilt.

Jean writes, "A lot of thought went into the arrangement of our quilt: The four light blue squares in the middle tell the story of Jesus' birth---we hope someday He will be the center of Maggie's life. Surrounding those 4 squares are personal squares from my husband and me that tell something about us that we wanted Maggie to remember...there's a piece with lace from our wedding, a piece of one of my baby dresses, a golf one for daddy, etc."

"Then we added squares given by all of our family members and some in memory or in honor of loved ones already passed on. Surrounding those are friends and loved ones from all over the United States. The four squares in the border represent Spring, Summer, Fall and Winter---the seasons God created. At the very top in the border I embroidered "Maggie Elisabeth" and down both sides of the border are the quilted handprints of each of our family members with their name embroidered inside. Maggie will surely know she was dearly loved and eagerly awaited! I machine-pieced the quilt (even Daddy had a turn at the machine!) and we, along with my parents, stitched the outlines of the hands. I hand-quilted it when we were finished."

Abby Powell made this elegant quilt and writes "Here is the quilt I made for my daughter, finished just before and presented to Hannah on our first Forever Family Day. I was inspired by Joanna's snowball pattern, which I often stared at when trying to decide what to do with my squares. It is machine quilted in red thread in a "bamboo" pattern."

Teresa Prince sent these photos the two (!) quilts she quilt she made for her daughter Bethany.

To the left is Bethany's crib sized quilt. For borders Teresa used a beautiful combination of a black solid fabric and an animal print fabric.

Teresa writes, "It [Bethany's crib size quilt] has fabrics from friends and family and there is a queen sized quilt to follow that will be all of the squares in this one plus another 100 from adoptive moms and dads all over the world."

Below is Bethany's queen size quilt, made from fabrics exchanged with family and friends, APC Fall 2001, CAC, June 2001 DTC, and July 2001 DTC. Teresa writes that making these quilts "has been such a special part of our wait for Bethany."

Isn't this a wonderful, creative design?

Dee continues, "My friend, Rhonda, also made a small quilt from the extra border pieces, with one of the materials I sent out and the back from the material I had used on the quilt on my bed. This one is for Sarah to just play with!"

Moya Smith has provided these delightful photos of her daughter Claire's quilt. She writes, "The pieces came from family and friends in Canada, US, Hong Kong, Bangk....all over, 142 pieces in all and the quilt is full size. The four corners are the pieces from our family. I cross-stitched the symbols for family (my husband's choice), faith (my choice), little sister from big brother Evan, and happy from big brother Rogan. Our wishes represent things we hope will be important in Claire's life and our two boys' wishes show their excitement over their baby sister. My Mom in Newfoundland, never having quilted before, put the quilt and a sham together during about 100 hours of work."

Moya's mom did a beautiful job, don't you think?

Jeanne Kenney made two quilts for her daughter, using squares exchanged with the October/November/December 2000 DTC group.

Jeanne writes about the quilt pictured to the left, "This quilt contains many of the Asian-themed fabric squares I received and I am in the process of hand quilting it. When it is done, I plan to use it as a wall-hanging so it stays in good shape for hopefully many years."

Describing her second quilt, she writes that it is "in the 'flying geese' pattern and it is hand-tied with pink, green, and gold embroidery thread. I wanted my daughter to use one of the quilts on an everyday basis... this will be my daughter's play mat, video-watching blankie, peek-a-boo toy, and so on. It is currently waiting patiently for her in the crib! These were the first two quilts I ever made and I enjoyed being able to make something for my daughter as I wait!"

Hallie Ray sent this photo of the quilt and pillow sham she made for their future daughter (hoping for a referral in November 2001). This beautiful quilt is her first quilting project!

The bed quilt is from squares from Oct/Nov/Dec 2000 DTC lists and the pillow shams are from squares from a 35 person APC 100 GW exchange. Hallie tied her quilt with with red perle cotton.

Amy Demetros, pictured with her quilt, recently finished her quilt with the help of her friend and neighbor, Esther Wiebke. Her quilt is beautiful!!

Amy was so excited to get her material in the mail each day and couldn't wait to put it together. She took great pride in arranging the squares "just right." She's so proud of the finished product, which she tied with gold thread.

Amy was adopted just over two years ago at the age of 8 from China and the many good wishes that came with each piece of material meant to so much to her.

She recently wasn't feeling well and spent three days on the couch, snuggled up under her quilt. "I'm sure glad I have this quilt to keep me warm," she said. "It has a lot of good wishes in it, so I should get better much quicker, don't you think?"

She wrotes, "I decided to cut the squares I received into 2 pieces on the diagonal so that I can make two quilts."

Pam Moore created the lovely quilt pictured below. She writes "I have finished the first of my 2 quilts. I was in a total of 5 quilt lists, so I had quite a few squares (well over 200) ... This quilt was the first I ever worked on and it was definitely a learning experience. It is crib sized with 10 squares across and 11 squares down. I cut the squares down to 4" so that this was a little smaller. It has red fabric in the border and on the backing. It is tied in the corner of every square with a red thread. The second quilt will be queen sized and hopefully finished before she leaves for college."

This quilt is exquisite! It was made by Gerry Martin for her granddaughter Zoe. She also wrote an accompanying "guide book" of the over 130 pieces she received.

Gerry writes, "The pattern is from the P.S. I Love You book and the figure at the top is an Asian Sunbonnet Sue pattern from sunbonnetsue.com. The fabrics range from swimming trunks from Zoe's Uncle Matt, to several French Provencal fabrics, to cat, dog and rooster fabrics referring to old family inside jokes, to shirts worn by airline pilots and teachers, as well as 4-H projects. Fabrics came from Malaysia, England, France, Canada, Nigeria, United Arab Emirates, Australia, and China as well as all over the U.S. and I am probably forgetting some places. It was wonderful fun for this grandma and I look forward to many more projects involving this newest member of our family."

There is more information as well as pictures of Zoe, the quilts, and the decorated nursery at http://marpar.homestead.com/homepage.html.

This delightful quilt was made by Maggi Tinsley for her future daughter Caroline. Maggi writes, "It's crib-sized, machine-pieced and both hand- and machine-quilted. I used triangles cut from the 7-in. squares in the squares on point, and 5-in. squares trimmed to some random angles in the other columns. Hand quilting is with red Perle cotton and long 1/4-in. stitches, on the muslin triangles and alternating squares in the three columns; in the end borders I quilted along the stem lines of the leaf pattern. I put some of the purple fabric I sent out at the ends, along with some extra ladybug fabric that was a prevalent gift. And at one end, I stitched "Wishes for Caroline" across the rectangles."

Maggi explained that she spent many months designing her quilt "in her head" and made a few sketches before coming up with this pattern. What a beautiful, original design!

This beautiful, large quilt was made by Pat Dexter. Notice the hearts quilted in the border. Pat writes, "I made this quilt for my daughter, Hope, for whom we are DTC as of November 2000. It is made of 154 five inch squares gathered from family, friends, and listmates. They are machine pieced with sashing between each square and hand quilted using the stitch in the ditch technique. The finished quilt will approximately fit a queen-sized bed so we hope she'll be able to use it for a long time." The quilt was created with love by a group of people. Pat's neighbor was her "quilting mentor" and her daughter, son and a friend all helped with the hand quilting. Pat's future daughter will be wrapped up in love and good wishes.

This quilt was made by Kim Cooper. Kim says, "I found this particular design from an old quilt that my husband's grandmother had given us.  I wanted to incorporate both the 5" and 7" squares that I had received and when I saw this layout I knew it would be perfect for my daughter's quilt." What a special design!

Gretchen Gibbs and her family are waiting for a referral. She sent a photo of her future daughter's quilt and it is adorable.

Gretchen writes, "I paper-pieced the heart blocks using a pale pink background using the first 5" block sent to me (I printed the pattern from www.quiltbus.com or maybe it was the aboutquilting.com website....). For the border, I used the 2nd 5" block and cut 4 1/2 x 1 1/2 strips (I actually had to raid my own stash of fabric to have enough....). The blocks in the corners highlight the Chinese calligraphy symbol for love. I can't wait to take this quilt to China and greet our baby girl!"

Denise Keller shared this photo of her daughter's quilt. It was assembled by Adriennesroom.com, who did a lovely job!

The embroidery on the border reads:

"Not Flesh of my flesh, nor bone of my bone, But still miraculously my own. Never forget for a single minute You didn't grow under my heart but in it."

Denise writes, "This was a poem handed down to my husband's father by his adoptive mother and we are passing it on to our adoptive daughter."

Kathi Weiss made the darling quilt pictured below for her future daughter, Dakota Rayne. She is planning to make two more quilts with fabrics exchanged by a second APC list and the January 2001 DTC list. Kathi writes, "We are anxiously awaiting the referral for our daughter, Dakota Rayne. Until she arrives this quilt will be on the rocker in her bedroom waiting for her. The quilt is backed with the same red panda fabric that is around the edge and tied with red thread to connect us with our little one."

Susan Berrey sent pictures of two beautiful quilts.  At the right, is her baby's Good Wishes quilt, which she completed in July. 

Susan writes, "From each square I cut a smaller square and four triangle pieces, plus another smaller square that I set aside to make a doll quilt later.  I then paired up two of the different fabrics to make a larger square block.  It was really neat how every single fabric coordinated beautifully with at least one other fabric.  The blue in the borders and sashing is the same fabric that I sent out.  It's hard to see the pattern in the picture, but it has red, green, yellow, and lighter blue shooting stars in it.  The quilt needed another accent fabric, so I selected the red mini-floral print to go with it.   It's machine quilted with clear monofilament thread using the "in the ditch" technique, and I just continued the lattice pattern into the borders.  Also, in true APC fashion, dotting the blue borders are small bows tied in red thread."

The small read and blue quilt in the bottom-right corner of the picture (above) is a little nine-patch which Susan made from the scraps. 

I love my baby's 100 Good Wishes quilt so much!   It's hanging in a corner of my living room where I enjoy it every day.  The quilt and the accompanying scrapbook of good wishes are two things I will always cherish.  I can't wait to share them with my daughter.  

Susan also sent a photo of a quilt called "Playful Pandas" (picture at left) which she made for her daughter's room. Both of her quilts are beautiful!!

The quilt pictured below was made with a great deal of love by Lisa Osborne for her 3 year old daughter coming home in November 2000.  Lisa also sent a picture of the quilt on her bed.  Isn't Ariane's room beautiful?

Lori Roberts sent the photo of her quilt (below).  It was designed and created by her mother-in-law, Sheila Roberts.  Notice the beautiful applique work around the edges! 

Joanna Norman provided two photos of her quilt. At the right is the completed top.  Joanna writes, "I don't know the name of this pattern, but I saw it in a quilt shop and knew it would be perfect for our baby's quilt.  My husband arranged the squares in the rainbow pattern from upper left to lower right and from light to dark from the upper right to lower left."

Below is a close up to show the details of the red diamonds which are made from 4 small triangles of two different shades of red fabric.

This quilt was made by Teri Marsh, the person who has generously been keeping track of all the quilt exchange lists.  Teri writes, "My mom and I both worked on it and did it on the serger, which made it go together fast. We tried to sort the squares by color and then  alternate the dark and lite colors. We used a Chinese fabric between and some oriental pattern red squares between, and of course it is tied with red thread (what else whould one use!)"

Teri's daughter Anna loves looking at it on the back of the rocker while she takes a bottle.

This beautiful quilt "in progress" and is being made by Laura Isom. In this photo she has used 50 squares.