My mother passed away in 1989. She was a hand quilter and had just finished a "Southern Belle" quilt. It had lots of hand embroidery, and of course the hand quilting. Mama spent lots of hours working on this quilt. She had already showed me the type of casket she wanted. We went to a funeral one day and she whispered to me, that was the type she wanted when the time came. The lid was one piece, that showed the complete body. Normally, they put a white cloth on the body from the waist down. I did get Mama one like this and in place of the white cloth, I had them wrap Mama in her new quilt, from the waist down. It was beautiful....... We buried Mama with her quilt.