I'm not very concerned about that!

I was thinking the same thing.

I want everyone who I have ever given a quilt to bring it to my funeral for a "show and tell"! I have given away hundreds and I think it would be cool to "see" them all together in one place. And of course I want lots of pictures!!!

I had made my Mom a lap quilt which she really liked. When she was cremated, I had the quilt go with her. So it is mixed in with her ashes that we will spread on the creek that's on my sister's property. I have my quilt that I cover with when I nap in my easy chair. It will cover my casket when I die. That's not going to be anytime soon though. :-)

i have made a number of casket quilts for friends and loved ones- and a couple by request for people i did not know-
maybe it's a location thing- we've been seeing them draped across caskets here for as long as i can remember- in lieu of flowers on the casket.

This is an interesting discussion. I spent yesterday at church for a funeral, as I was walking out after the luncheon, I saw the casket flowers on a table in the fellowship hall ( the deceased was being flown to another state for burial, so no grave to put the flowers on). Being a flower fanatic, I was appalled at the condition of the flowers. It had looked like a stunning cascade of yellow roses. But they were brown, old, and wouldn't last another day before dropping petals. I know they spent a lot of money on those, and I was angry for the family. I hope they didn't notice.

If some florist delivered flowers to my funeral in that condition, I'd come back to haunt them. So I think a quilt is the answer!!! Guess I'll have to learn how to applique, so I can make me own "bouquet". Great idea.

I think this is a super great idea....Since I am going to be cremated, I could make one to be wraped in, inside my cardboard box....and make a bag to hold the container of my ashes......As I am writing this....I am thinking...I have my husbands box of ashes, currently sitting on my fireplace mantle...and upstairs I still have a bunch of his shirts I used to make quilts for his grandchildren. I think I will make that bag for him next....the anniversary of his death is tomorrow so he will have a 'new quilt' to keep him warm.
I am thinking a large circle with a drawstring.... Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh an idea is born....will post pics... Please do not think I am morbid, as I am not, I was married to my childhood sweetheart for 43 years and lost him to an extremely un-expected heart attach.... I talk to him every night and he watches TV with me.....

When my mom passed in 2010, we asked that in lieu of flowers donations go to a local homeless shelter.

My mother was a watercolor artist and professor. My brother and I picked out her (and our)favorite floral paintings and put them on easels behind her coffin. Friends brought others and made an improptu gallery in the hall outside the sanctuary. It was beautiful.

Why not quilts!?!?

This has been a very tender message board. It has given me many thoughts to think about. One is my husband is not into flowers at all. He loves his hunting. He does have just a few skins or hide's and I thought why not put that on his casket. Julie?

How nice. I have two friends that are gone and I talk to them every once in awhile. They may be gone but they will always be in our hearts.