Have you ever seen a casket lined with a quilt?
01-17-2011, 12:28 AM
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One of my quilting friends is always bemoaning the amount of her fabric stash! We have always jokingly told her not to worry we would make her a shroud when she dies!! Perhaps it's not such a bad idea after all!! Another lady at a local group show and tell produced a quilt she had made and said "This is my coffin cover"! There was stunned silence until she stood up again and said,"but I'm not ready to use it just yet"!!!!
01-17-2011, 05:40 AM
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I once had a rush order for a quilt to finish in 24 hours on my long arm that was a burial quilt for a local Native American woman. I understand that it is custom to have the quilt on the casket during the mourning period and then put into the casket when it is closed.
The customer was frantic when she called, thinking that they might not be able to get the quilt finished for the deceased's family.
The customer was frantic when she called, thinking that they might not be able to get the quilt finished for the deceased's family.
01-17-2011, 05:45 AM
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Originally Posted by sewTinker
when we were on our little farm, our elderly neighbor, of whom I was so very fond, went into a nursing home. I made her a quilt from 30's reproduction fabric in flannels with a warm cotton batting. Well, she just loved it. Turns out she just couldn't get warm in that place, and so she kept it wrapped around her legs. Within a month, she passed away. When we went to the wake, her daughters told me that the quilt was wrapped around her to 'keep her warm,' and they opened the bottom half of the coffin to show me! (this was something new for me to experience.) She was buried with it. It was an odd feeling, but I find myself thinking of her with that little quilt. I ran across some of its scraps today...
anyway - kind of off subject, but to see this post after coming across those scraps... just had to respond.
anyway - kind of off subject, but to see this post after coming across those scraps... just had to respond.
01-17-2011, 06:00 AM
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God Bless you for being a hospice nurse, they helped me so very much with both my parents. When I worked at the funeral home a director once told me that a family member was upset that they used a "body bag" to remove her sister from the home. The director asked her how would it look without it. The cover you spoke of sounds like the perfect idea. Of course...it wouldn't be the right color (or something!) Helping greiving people is not necessarily easy, for sure. (
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Originally Posted by vbourck
I really like the quilted casket liner.
My mom, sister and I are all quilters. When my stepdad died a few years ago at home, the funeral home came to take his body and they covered him with a custom quilt fitted with an elasticized edge to fit over the stretcher. I thought it was lovely and so meaningful to us- maybe not to him, but I liked it. I am a hospice nurse and have never seen any other funeral home that had a quilt cover like that.
My mom, sister and I are all quilters. When my stepdad died a few years ago at home, the funeral home came to take his body and they covered him with a custom quilt fitted with an elasticized edge to fit over the stretcher. I thought it was lovely and so meaningful to us- maybe not to him, but I liked it. I am a hospice nurse and have never seen any other funeral home that had a quilt cover like that.
01-17-2011, 06:42 AM
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My Jim died suddenly last Jan and I asked the funeral director if he could be wrapped in a quilt. I had made a king size maple leaf quilt for my parent's bed and there were many squares left over, mostly in reds and oranges. Jim loved them and asked me to make a quilt for him from the left over blocks so I made a wall hanging. It sat in a bag for years, never quite making it to a wall. I brought the hanging and a quilted pillow to the funeral home. They placed the pillow under his head and the quilt around him. It was closed coffin, so I don't know how it looked, but I was comforted knowing that my love was around him. I wish I had known about the quilted set. It's beautiful.
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01-17-2011, 06:59 AM
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Originally Posted by pittsburgpam
That's interesting. I was thinking of that when there was a discussion of Coffin Quilts. I thought it meant a long, slim quilt for a coffin and I wondered if anyone was doing that.
Might be morbid but some people might really appreciate it. Could always make up a few and take them to funeral homes.
Might be morbid but some people might really appreciate it. Could always make up a few and take them to funeral homes.
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