The Quilts are Finished!

It's taken a couple of months from concept to completion but I've just finished making two photo memory quilt wall-hangings depicting Jade's life. Each quilt contains 32 photos or 4 from each year of Jade's life and we will be presenting them to the two orphanages where Jade was looked after as a baby. Here are the quilts:

To give details of the photos in the quilts I've prepared (with the help of a Chinese-speaking friend) explanatory notes in English and Chinese. These are double-sided and laminated and can be hung alongside the quilt by their silk ribbons.

Jade chose the colour of the quilts and the fabrics. Her favourite colour is green--after her name--and she liked the purple/violet as a complimentary colour. I offered to have her involved in the selection of the photos but she was happy to let me choose them.

Along with the quilts we have a number of gifts for the orphanages including knitted clothing made by a group of seniors which was passed to me by another China adoptive family. We also have 2009 FCC-A (Families With Children from China-Australia) calendars, artwork made by Grade 2 students at Jade's school, moisturiser for the orphanage director and Australian chocolates with macadamia nuts for the staff. So far, everything seems to be fitting into our luggage except for the knitted clothing which is in its own bag. I hope we don't have to pay excess luggage for it!