Originally Posted by New Quilter
Here in So. Jersey, most people choose to send most of the baskets of flowers to area nursing homes (as well as to churches if it'll be close to a Sunday service)...so at least the flowers are given the chance to be enjoyed be others...the spray of flowers across the top and/or the inside from the immediate family are left to blanket the top of the grave...but I also love the idea of a small lap quilt to go on your loved one...Naomi
I always thought that was a nice idea also till mom was in a nursing home. The residents, whenever they saw flowers, would ask who died and then they got really sad.