100 Good Wishes Quilt: Square #5

Well. It’s about bleeping time I did some of these posts, isn’t it? Because I have a lovely collection of quilt squares and wishes and haven’t gotten around to posting about them.

And so, it’s fitting to start with the person who started me off on this project — the incredibly talented and crafty Shannon (and husband Dan, of course).

Shannon is the person who gave me the idea of doing a quilt for Stinkerbelle, if you recall, way back when. So her square is a special one for Stinkerbelle.

Coffee! How Ethiopian is coffee? (Pretty Ethiopian, I’ll just tell you.)

And the wish she chose for Her Babyness:

“Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away”

is, coincidentally, the same one that is on the cover of a journal I bought when we got our referral, to journal our thoughts and feelings and preparation for the imminent arrival of That Baby. Mind you, the wish she sent is a work of art in itself (beside which my wish for her daughter looked a bit… boring… but oh well).

Now, we’ve long since reconciled ourselves to the fact that we might not have a 100 Good Wishes Quilt so much as a 25 Good Wishes Quilt or a 37 Good Wishes Quilt, because we don’t know that many people — well, certainly not people who would be inclined to seek out fabric. But browsing Shannon’s blogs, I get inspired to be crafty. I have all sorts of ideas about how to supplement the squares we do get, if we want to, or to decorate Stinkerbelle’s room, or to put together a life book.

So thanks for the inspiration Shannon!