Making AnnaClaire's Quilt

Introducing AnnaClaire OHGWQ

2007-07-02T11:55:00.000-04:00

Admiring my beautiful quilt

Our family minus Will with Maryellen (she made it)
Em, the Bu, and Maryellen with the quilt
Look at MY quilt!
Looking at all the pretty squares
I love my quilt!
Thank you, Maryellen!
Look at me on my One Hundred Good Wishes Quilt!
I'm so cute on it!
See my pretty quilt?
So much love went into my quilt!
The back reads this:
Each square is quilted on with double hearts
Can you find your square?
The whole quilt

June 30 was the big day! Not only was AnnaClaire the flower girl in her cousin's wedding, but also, Maryellen gave us the quilt. It is absolutely beautiful. I have never seen a more beautiful quilt. There is a total of 96 squares on the quilt. We had more than that, but we picked one square from each person (a few people gave us 2 squares) and Maryellen also only did one or 2 of the ones we had duplicates of so that the quilt didn't turn out too big. It is a twin sized quilt. The very center square is the monogrammed one which is perfect for the middle. Maryellen also made a matching pillow and it is so pretty!! I will take a picture of it and post it later.

AnnaClaire loves her quilt already. She just knows it is hers. She hugs it, holds it, lays on it, kisses it, and proudly her face says "that's MY quilt".

I love that each square is quilted on by a heart. I think that is the most perfect reminder of the love that went into the quilt. Maryellen also layed out the squares beautifully seperating the same colors from eachother so that there is pink, green, blue, yellow, red spread evenly on the quilt. Also on the border, she made sure not to stich over the bodies of the little girls, so you can really see them. How much time and care went into the making of the quilt! Completing the quilt on the very back is a little note that Maryellen wrote reading To AnnaClaire: "May God bless you always." Stiched by- Maryellen M, Houston Texas, June 2007.

You can tell how much work and time Maryellen put into this quilt. We sent all the quilt stuff to her back in February and this whole time, she has been working day after day on the quilt. She said some days she worked 8 hours quilting it. There truly is no way to express our thanks to Maryellen. What a treasure AnnaClaire's One Hundred Good Wishes Quilt is!

Quilt updates and another square!

2007-04-04T14:37:00.000-04:00

This wish arrived in March from my mom's really good friend, Mrs. Bush, and their family in IL. It is our 101st wish! We now have all the squares for AnnaClaire's quilt. Thank you so much "Aunt" Nancy, "Uncle" Darrel, Allysa, and Ryan! When I took this picture, we had already sent the square to Maryellen, so that's why the fabric isn't pictured.

In other news, Maryellen is hoping to have AnnaClaire's quilt ready to bring to us at my cousin, Matthew's wedding in June! How exciting!!

It's going to be made!!!!!!!

2007-02-05T22:46:00.000-05:00

Grandma and AC holding the package containing our squares!

All our squares ready to go!

Today, Mom and I worked on counting and re counting all our squares. We got 2 from lots of people, so we narrowed it down to 1 from each person so there will be as many wishes as squares. We packaged them all up and put in quilt samples that we like, gave it to Grandma, and Grandma will give it to Maryellen, my Dad's brother in law's mother/grandma's friend to sew up beautifully!!!! We are so thankful to Maryellen for taking on this task!!!!!!!! With the rest of the squares, I'm going to put my sewing skills to work and make a "cuddle quilt". We'll see how that turns out! We still have one more square on the way, so we'll send that to Maryellen to include on the quilt!

Make sure to check below to see out newest quilt square!

*NUMBER 100***

2007-02-05T22:41:00.000-05:00

Well, well, well!!!!!!! We have received 100 WISHES! I know one more is on it's way, so I guess we will end with a total of 101 wishes!!!

THANK YOU TO THE SEIBERTS of www.langleysmeimei.com FOR OUR 100TH SQUARE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We love the fabric and the wish is so sweet. I love how you did the Welcome Home song you were telling me about! It's so special! THANK YOU!

#99!!!!! From Meibeth's family!!!

2007-02-03T21:54:00.000-05:00

Our 99th wish came this week from our cyberfriends, the Cannons! Thank you Meibeth and family for this beautiful wish and square!

1 MORE...and it's on it's way!!!!!

#97 and #98!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

2007-01-21T22:46:00.000-05:00

From the Rens family! (Fellow AWAA family going to get their baby, Jaya, in 4 days!!!)

From Dad's work friends! One of them put this together to make the Wachovia symbol and cross stitched the "Welcome AnnaClaire ~Your Wachovia Friends" thing!

These are our two newest quilt squares, making our total *98*!!!!! Only 2 more! Thank you to both Jaya's family and Wachovia for these beautiful wishes and squares!

Wishes 95 and 96 from Ge Ges (big brothers)

2007-01-14T22:23:00.000-05:00

From Ge Ge Will:

From Ge Ge Drew:

Well, the boys did their wishes and I think they did good. I helped a little with the fun backround paper, but they picked it out and did their wishes. Will's fabric is a fabric we got in China. (which makes sense because Will was in China with us.) Drew's fabric is one of the many we had that he picked out. So now AnnaClaire has wishes and squares from her entire family! Just 4 more until we hit the 100 mark! If you are interested in swapping, feel free to email me (email adress somewhere in the profile.)

Wish #94!!! (and pictures of #92 and 93)

2007-01-05T16:02:00.000-05:00

Here is AnnaClaire with our 3 newest squares. Cute, huh?

From the Greens! Thanks so much!
From the Groves! Thank you!

We got another quilt square today! Thank you so much to the Mitchells for this adorable wish and darling frog fabric! And thank you Victoria for the beautiful picture you drew AnnaClaire!

More squares... #92 and #93!

2006-12-30T23:15:00.000-05:00

(pictures to follow.)

We recieved 2 more quilt squares! One came from the Green family right before we left for China. They are Mom's cyber friends adopting Elli Mei! Thank you so much Mrs. and Mr. Green, Taylor, Parker, Jessica, and of course Elli, for the beautiful wish and purple fabric!

The other quilt square and wish we received is from our neighbors, the Groves. They sent a green and pink polka dotted fabric square with "Jeremiah 29:11" monogramed in it. So their wish for AnnaClaire is... "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Thank you Mr. and Mrs. Groves, Brian, Logan, and Gracie for this adorable fabric/wish.

Thank you to both these families for the wishes and squares. They will be cherished by our sweet girl!

Only 7 more!!!

#91 from the Andersons

2006-12-03T21:25:00.000-05:00

This darling square and sweet wish is from the Anderson family. They are adopting through our agency and the kids go to the same school as Will. Thanks so much for this cute wish and square!
#91

10 short and going to China!

2006-11-25T11:47:00.000-05:00

This months swap is recipes and family introductions... not much to post pictures of, but we've gotten some great receipes!

We are still at 90 good wishes for AnnaClaire. Please help us get the remaining 10.

Exciting news........
We got our TA on Monday 11/20 and got our CA date (12/18) and concrete travel dates the next day. We are leaving for China on 12/7 and will be returning on 12/20. Please pray for us as we embark on this wonderful journey to China for AnnaClaire!

We would love to have all 100 wishes by the time we left!!!

Dec. swap is ornaments. We aren't partaking in this swap because of the business of going to China, bringing AC home, and Christmas. Depending on January's swap, you can look for more swap goodies then!

I'll post our remaining 10 wishes and squares as they arrive! Thanks so much to everyone who has helped us reach 90!!!!!!

Another bib...

2006-11-03T15:00:00.000-05:00

We got another bib. This one is from the Matusic family. Thanks! We can't wait to see AnnaClaire sporting her ducky bib!

Square from Texas!!!!!!

2006-10-29T23:38:00.000-05:00

I LOOOOOOOOOVE this Texasy square. When I first came home from the hospital, my parents brought me to the blue bonnet fields there. They just seem like a special part of my life... Maybe that's why I love this square so much:) Anyway, I had seen if before and was so excited when we got it in the mail from the Landsford family from our AWAA DTC 7/7 group. Thanks so much! The wish is beautiful, too.

More squares and swap things.......

2006-10-16T23:18:00.000-04:00

October was the bib swap. We chose not to participate, because we have lots of bibs, but we were sent one from the Griffins!!! Thanks, it's so cute!
Quilt squares and a wish from Hazel! Thank you.
Socks from Septembers swap! These precious socks are from the Martins!

*The following are more quilt squares and wishes from the baby shower!

From Elizabeth Pugh
From the Hutts
From the Kempf family
From the Holways
From Mrs. Schwarz
From Kelly Schwarz

These are more pictures of latest quilt squares and swap things!!!

Pictures of shower squares and wishes...

2006-10-16T22:38:00.000-04:00

From the Statons.
From Meredith Lindblom
From Sadie Pugh
From the Rich family
From Mrs. Pugh

From Sydnee Lindblom

This is all Blogger is letting me post for now. I'm going to do another post with the rest. These are squares and wishes from people who came to the baby shower!

Squares from the shower (pics to follow)

2006-10-16T17:38:00.000-04:00

Why is it that sometimes I'm on a roll and can post tons of pictures on blogger, and other times it takes 30 minutes to get NOTHING.

We had a baby shower on Sunday for AnnaClaire. Everyone brought a quilt square and wish (except a few people had already given them to us.) We are up to 88 wishes! Another one came from my grandmothers friend the other day! My intention was to post pictures of all the quilt squares we got at our shower last Sunday... But since I can't get the pictures posted... I'm going to TRY to post pictures again later...

Thanks everyone! PLEASE help us gather our remaining *12* wishes.

Socks, socks, socks!

2006-09-18T21:19:00.000-04:00

From the Allens! THANKS!
From the Daughertys. Thank you!
From the Griffins! Thanks for these lovely socks.
From the Balmers. Thank you a lot!
From the Stuckmeyers. Thanks!!!!
From the Pieratts. Thanks so much!

So here's an update on all the socks we've gotten! A few are the pics of the ones I posted about a few posts ago. The rest are new ones. Aren't they all so precious? Thanks to all the families in our swap. I look forward to the swaps each month.

Mouse socks and white and pink socks!

2006-09-13T16:30:00.000-04:00

We recieved 2 cute pairs of socks from our sock swap today!!! The white and pink pair is from the Breaults and the mouse pair is from the Matusics! Thanks to both these families!!!

Cute socks

2006-09-11T15:50:00.000-04:00

*BLOGGER IS DRIVING ME INSANE. No pictures... :(

We got 3 sets of precious socks today!

A set of 3 pinky purple and white ones from the Stuckmeyers...

A pair of purple ones with a rainbow from the Allens...
and
A pair of white ones with a little yellow flower from the Daughetys...

Thank you so much to all these families! I'll post pictures of the precious socks when I can!

ice cream socks and yellow socks

2006-09-08T23:35:00.000-04:00

2 cute pairs of socks came today!!! The cute little yellow ones are from the Davis family and the adorable ice cream cone ones are from the Zimmermans. Thank you so much to both these families!

Kitty barrettes!

2006-09-07T21:50:00.000-04:00

We got some more barrettes from the August barrette swap today! These adorable kitty bows/barrettes are from the Breaults. Thanks so much!!! They are so cute and tiny!!!

74!!! Only 26 more!!! (plus some socks!)

2006-09-05T17:02:00.000-04:00

Today, we received a precious pair of socks from the Mears in our swap! (This month is socks!) Thanks so much, Mears!

We also recieved a package of stuff for AnnaClaire, from Grandma. It contained footy PJs, a hooded princess towel, and a sweet wish and quilt square! Thanks, Grandma! The quilt square is perfect and reminds me so much of you! We love you!

Fabric from China!

2006-09-03T13:58:00.000-04:00

One of my good friends, Caroline and her family gave us this square and wish for AnnaClaire. Caroline's dad works in China a lot and has brought numerous shirts back from there. This fabric is cut from one of the shirts! Isn't it beautiful? The wish is very sweet too. Thank you, Whisonant family!

Thanks, Madsens!!!

2006-09-01T15:45:00.000-04:00

Today we received a fun teddy bear square from Aunt Linda, Uncle Peter, and cousins Chris, Matt, and Ryan! Thanks so much for the darling square and gorgeous wish! We love you!!!

The second picture is the socks we are giving for this months AWAA exchange!

WE HAVE REACHED 70!

2006-08-30T20:37:00.000-04:00

WE NOW HAVE 71 WISHES! Only 29 to go!!!!!!!!

The darling ladybug square & wish is from Aunt Deanne, Uncle Bill, Kenny, Danny, and Michael. Thank you SO much, Raynes, for this beautiful wish and square! The fabric is just darling and the wish is so sweet. Thanks a bunch!!!!!!!!!

The China girls square is from the Tarico's in Arizona. I absolutely LOVE this fabric. It is so precious and the wish is beautiful. Thank you so much, Tarico family!

more barrettes

2006-08-30T11:47:00.000-04:00

From the Zimmermans.. Thanks for these darling ladybug clips!
From the Stallings... Thank you so much for these adorable flower clips!
From the Balmers... Thanks for this fun variety pack of hair stuff!
From the Martins... Thanks for this fun and pretty pony tail!

**We've had these for awhile now and I'm just now remembering to put them up!!! Thanks to all these families!

almost to 70!

2006-08-21T18:10:00.000-04:00

We received 2 wishes today! One from the Quinn family in our quilt exchange and one from my friend, Hailey Liptack! Thank you so much for these beautiful squares and wishes! We love them and know AC will as well!
Up to date: 69 wishes, 84 squares. Please help us collect the remaining 31! (we know, we will have more squares than wishes, but it is called the 100 good WISHES quilt not the 100 SQUARES quilt, so we will either also make a crib quilt or have over 100 squares on the main one!)
It's really simple! Just find a fabric you like, cut an 8 x 8 inch square, write or type a prayer for AnnaClaire, cut another piece of fabric off and attach it to the wish, and send it to us/give it to us!
Thank you everyone who has sent squares & wishes! And thank you in advance to all those who are going to send them! We can never have too many, so keep 'em coming!

Butterflies & dots!

2006-08-19T22:18:00.000-04:00

2 squares from California! The Thomas family from our quilt swap sent us these cute dot and butterfly sqaures! Thanks so much, Thomas'!

Asian fabrics from the Crenshaws!

2006-08-14T22:52:00.000-04:00

A big thank you to the Crenshaw family around the corner. They were in Ashville and found these great squares at a fabric shop. The owner of the shop is adopting from China too! The wish is so nice too. Thanks so much!!!!!!!!!!

We are getting closer and closer to our grand total *100* maybe we'll have all 100 by the time we get AC!!! Keep sendin'!

elephants

2006-08-11T21:57:00.000-04:00

Today, we received a fun elephant square from the Harveys in Mississippi. They are in our AWAA quilt group! Thank you Harvey family!!!

monogramed square, flag square, and barrettes!

2006-08-10T21:13:00.000-04:00

The cute monogramed square and wish is from our neighbors, the Kallanders! Thanks, Kallander family!!!

The American flag square and wish is from the Owens family in our AWAA quilt group!! Thank you, Owens'!!!

The adorable Hello Kitty barrettes are from the Stuckmeyer family! Thank you so much!!!

And last, but not least, the fun yellow barrettes are from the Daughety family! Thanks a bunch!

Another huge thank you to all these families!!!

WISH NUMBER 60* and some more barrettes

2006-08-09T20:35:00.000-04:00

We received this pretty blue flowered square from the Gortmans in our AWAA quilt swap! Thank you so much! We also received these cute clips from the Pieratts in the AWAA montly swap! A huge thanks to these families!!!

some stars and some crayons & such

2006-08-08T18:33:00.000-04:00

These fun and bright squares are from the Watassek family in Texas! Thanks, Watassek's!

watermelons, flowers, ladybugs, and barrettes

2006-08-07T20:07:00.000-04:00

We received some really cute, sparkely frog barrettes and fluffy barrettes from the Davis family! Thank you Davis'.

We also received 2 squares (watermelons and flowers) from the Hayashi family in our quilt swap! Thanks so much for the fun squares and wish!

And a thank you to my friend, Kayla, for the sweet wish and pretty fabric she sent.

Thank you again for all these things!

fans and swirls!

2006-08-04T16:19:00.000-04:00

These two squares that came today from the Bishop family added on to this delightful day! Thanks Bishop's of TN!

AnnaClaire ChenHui

2006-08-04T11:42:00.000-04:00

For those of you who don't know, we have been considering a 9 month baby girl off the WC list. We emailed the LOI to the coordinator today. If all is well, it will be sent to China on August 11. For more information on Xun Hui (AnnaClaire's CN) please go to my blog or our website.

Oh and look at the AWESOME tickers! (at the very bottom)

More barrettes, more squares!

2006-08-03T15:08:00.000-04:00

Wow! Lots of mail today!

Pic 1: Thank you Matusic family for the squirrel barrettes, how'd you know we are going to get the squirrel jumper once it's on sale? (wink wink)

Pic 2: Thanks Howard family for the homey squares and beautiful wish!

Pic 3: Love those flower pony tail holders with butterflies and LADYBUGS on them! Thanks Mears' family!!!

Pic 4: What cute squares: Jesus loves me and red flowers! Thanks Sanders family! Also, thanks for the beautiful wish, topped with a red thread :)

Butterflies & hair clips!

2006-08-02T18:01:00.000-04:00

The beautiful blue butterfly square is from the Page family in our AWAA quilt group! Thanks so much Page's!!!

*We are in a AWAA monthly swap, and this month is the first month. We are doing baretts. I will be using this website to show our monthly swap items. The cute flower baretts are from the Griffin family in CA! Mrs. Griffin MADE them! Thank you Griffin's!

America and China squares and wishes!

2006-08-02T17:30:00.001-04:00

Sarah Mei's family sent us these 2 squares and wishes! I thought I would mention how creative they were! They sent an American square & wish and a Chinese square & wish! I loved what they said so I'm putting it down:

Anna Claire,
This quilt square represents the United States of America! The Lord, in His perfect plan you you, knew you would be a member of the H-- family in the USA. You will be given every opportunity and allowed many freedoms in this country. The most important freedom is the right to choose to worship and serve the Lord Jesus Christ. We pray you will be a Christ follower at a very early age.
"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be cvalled Children of God! And that is what we are!" 1 John 1:9
...
and of course the China square:

Anna Claire,
This quilt square represent your native country The People's Republic of China. The Lord had a plan for you, before you were born, and He knew that you should be a girl with Chinese heritage. Always be proud of who you are and celebrate God's perrfect plan for you.
"For I know the plans I have for you," declared the Lord, "plans to prosper and you not to hard you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jeremiah 29:11
...

Thanks H's for these squares!

2 more squares!

2006-07-31T21:54:00.000-04:00

Two squares came today from AWAA quilt groupers! Thanks Losey family in Ohio for the pretty lavender one and Bartram family in Florida for the ladybug one. We love the squares!

LADYBUGS GALORE!

2006-07-29T17:12:00.000-04:00

2 more squares and wishes from people in our quilt group!!! Thank you Taylor and Luce families for these adorable ladybug squares!

*this makes 48 good wishes, 53 squares*

51 down. 49 to go.

2006-07-26T16:42:00.000-04:00

These two squares came from the Browns in the good ol' Tarheel State! We can tell how hard they worked on the fun wish! The squares are so bright and colorful! Thanks so much, Brown family!

*These 2 square marked the 50 and 51. This means we are above halfway! (however, we are collecting 100 good wishes, and we get 2 squares from some, so it will be more like 106 squares)

More ladybugs!!!

2006-07-25T17:07:00.000-04:00

Our new friends who live close by and happen to be in our quilt square group, sent us this square today. The wish and square are just lovely! Thank you Risenberg family!

*This makes 49 squares! YIPEE!! ALMOST HALF WAY!*

3 in 1: dots, yellow, and butterflies

2006-07-24T16:00:00.000-04:00

Today we received 3 squares & wishes!! The cute polka dot square is from the Trubey family. The pretty yellow square is from the Duffey family. The colorful butterfly square is from the Hopkins' in Oregon. A huge thanks to all these families!

*This makes 48 squares! 2 short of the halfway point!!!

Gorgeous butterflies!

2006-07-22T19:26:00.000-04:00

Today we received a beautiful square with butterflies on it from the Davis family in Maine. They are in the paperchase adopting Grave Olivia (LOVE THAT NAME!) Thanks so much Davis'!

Blue flowers square

2006-07-15T18:23:00.000-04:00

This square is from the Roberts in Tennessee. It actually came while we were in DC, but Drew just got it out of his car and gave it to us. Thank you, Roberts family!!!

Bright, fun square

2006-07-14T15:33:00.000-04:00

We received this fun square is from Mariah C. in nearby Greenville, SC! It's so bright and girly. Thank you so much!!!

Pink daisys

2006-07-13T22:53:00.000-04:00

Thank you Bets family in Miami for this adorable wish and square that we received today!

Square from Grandma!

2006-07-10T16:27:00.000-04:00

A square from Grandma E. came today! The fabric is so pretty and girly and we love the wish. How sweet and I love how the front of it looks like the fabric. Thanks grandma. I'm sure AnnaClaire will treasure it forever. We love you!!

another ladybug square

2006-07-07T15:21:00.000-04:00

Oh what a happy day! DTC and quilt square. What could be better? Thank you Clay family for this ladybug square!!!

DTC

2006-07-07T10:58:00.000-04:00

Maybe our dossier is on the plane to China right now!!! DTC- today!!!! 7/7/06

bright yellow angels

2006-07-03T01:34:00.000-04:00

We received this fun angel square from the Peeples' in Mississippi! Thank you Peeples family!

pastel ladybugs

2006-07-01T02:28:00.000-04:00

Another square came today from the Barton family! What pretty fabric!!! Thank you Bartons!!

More squares!!!

2006-06-30T04:23:00.000-04:00

We received more squares today!! The top ones are from the Balmer family, and the bottom one is from the Burtons! Thank you all!!!

referral? no. quilt square? YES!

2006-06-28T14:37:00.001-04:00

Many are getting referrals. No not us, but we did get a quilt square! This one is from The S family in MD (WHO GOT THEIR REFERRAL YESTERDAY!!!!). I (Emily) have been conversing with their daughter, Keara and we decided to trade squares!! The first picture is an up close of the wish so you can see it better. Is that wish not adorable? The wish & square were even in an envelope adressed to "Anna Claire H---"!!! Thank you S Family!

Girly pink square

2006-06-23T13:11:00.000-04:00

We received a pretty pink square from the Stone family in Ohio today! They are part of our quilt group! What pretty fabric, thank you Matt, Courtney, and Tyler!!!

Teddy Bear square

2006-06-20T14:03:00.000-04:00

We passed the mail car on the way home and started wondering if we would get a quilt square. Emily checked the mail and was excited to see the return adress Houston, Texas, on a rather large envelope. It turns out, it was our first quilt square from a friend that was not met on the internet or from a quilt group!! Thank you Shirley!!! Shirley collects teddys so this square will always be a reminder of her. (Oh, and the envelope holding the card was even adressed to Anna Claire!!)

Lovely little China girls

2006-06-15T15:07:00.000-04:00

This cute, Chinese girl square is from the Oyler family in Missouri. They are part of our quilt group. What adorable fabric! The poem by Kim is also beautiful. Thank you Oylers!

Our 27th good wish!

2006-06-14T16:59:00.000-04:00

Today, a square arrived from the Allen family in Florida! We love this beachy fabric. Thank you Tim and Kim.

Square from the Tardys in Texas

2006-06-13T15:01:00.000-04:00

This very cute square came today from the Tardys of Texas in our quilt group. What a nice, bright square to come on such a rainy, dull day! Thank you Tardy family!

Another square for Anna Claire!

2006-06-08T22:09:00.000-04:00

Today, we received another square. What pretty fabric! It is from the Wiger family in Minnesota. They are in our quilt group. Thank you, Wiger family!

three in one day!

2006-06-03T21:52:00.000-04:00

Today, we received squares from 3 people in our quilt group. The "blue angel" one is from the Griffins in California. The "green ladybug and flower one" is from the Miles as well as the & "red" one and the "I love you purple" one is from the Diaz family in Florida. Thank you so much!

Over 1/5 of the way there! YAY!

2006-06-01T15:45:00.000-04:00

Well, June started off with a quilt square! This lovely butterfly and flower square came from the Mears in PA! It was good wish number 21 which means we are over 1/5 of the way there... Well thank you Mears! We love this springy, girly fabric.

Is it me, or is this a popular fabric?

2006-05-27T21:43:00.000-04:00

We received this square from the Pieratts in AZ. Thanks Pieratts!!! We love this fabric- which is good because its the 3rd time we've received it!!!
I also wanted to mention the fun "love in Chinese" & "ladybug" stamps in the corner of the envelope! What a great idea!!!

Anna Claire's 100 good wishes book

2006-05-25T13:02:00.000-04:00

Anna Claire's 100 good wishes book- below

We got Anna Claire's 100 good wishes album yesterday! Soon, we will start filling Anna Claire's album with her many good wishes! We will then add some pictures of the first page which will be the title in fun stickers.

Butterflies on a gloomy day

2006-05-22T15:39:00.000-04:00

We were extremely excited to recieve this cute butterfly square today, because the butterfly is a symbol for family, happiness, and joy in China! A special thanks goes to the Glenn family in Indiana.

Pretty pink fabric came today

2006-05-18T18:48:00.000-04:00

We received this cute pink fabric from Jennifer Kluttz and family! They are part of our quilt group! What a cute fabric, and we love the wish with all the baby stuff on the top!!!

heart square

2006-05-15T15:35:00.000-04:00

This fun heart square from the Tranthams in our quilt group, makes a total of 10 good wishes (more squares since we get 2 in our AWAA group) received while Dad (Bill) and I (Emily) were gone, the span of 2 weeks. A total of 18!

Chinese fan square

2006-05-13T16:27:00.000-04:00

We recieved this Chinese fan square from the Hawkins in NY. They are in our quilt square group. Thanks goes to them!

A square from the Byrnes!

2006-05-12T16:21:00.000-04:00

I love this square from the Byrnes because it reminds me that Anna Claire will find love (hearts) in her home (it looks so homey!) in America (red, white, and blue)! Bill Byrne is the man who does our website. Thank you Byrnes!!!

And the squares keep comin'!

2006-05-11T15:59:00.000-04:00

2 more squares today! The Chinese fan one is from the Guschels in New York, and the green ladybug one is from the McCanns. Both from our AWAA quilt group.

Square from fellow North Carolinans

2006-05-09T13:47:00.000-04:00

Today, the Edmistens, who live very close to us, gave us this cute green ladybug square. Thank you, Edmistens!

Blue "girls of many lands" fabric!

2006-05-08T16:36:00.000-04:00

The Waters in Illinois from our quilt group sent us this cute girls of many lands fabric. The one in the red dress is Chinese.

A day for ladybugs

2006-05-06T03:28:00.000-04:00

We recieved the blue gingham ladybug square from the Johnsons in FL, how cute! We also received the adorable yellow gingham ladybugs & blue with flowers, bees, and ladybugs from the Barones in VA. A day of ladybugs, for sure!

A bright ladybug square!

2006-05-05T04:17:00.000-04:00

Steve and Sheila from our AWAA quilt square group sent us this fun ladybug fabric! Thank you!

Only 92 quilt squares to go!

2006-04-29T16:09:00.000-04:00

We received 2 more quilt squares. The blue "homey" one is from the Liptack family in Washington, and the yellow "gingham ladybug" square is from Robin White in Ohio!

2 squares from Terri make it 6!

2006-04-27T16:40:00.000-04:00

Two squares from Terri (part of the AWAA quilt group 8) in Colorado came!

ladybugs, kittens, new quilt squares... OH MY!

2006-04-25T16:30:00.000-04:00

We cut two squares for Anna Claire today. The green "kitties" are from her mommy and daddy and the pink "ladybugs" are from her Jie Jie (big sister), Emily.

First quilt squares came!

2006-04-17T16:47:00.000-04:00

We recieved the first 2 quilt squares for Anna Claire's quilt today!!! The "Noah's Ark" fabric is from Sandra in Oregon. The "paisley" is from Denise in Indiana. They are both part of our AWAA quilt group 8.