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LINING CASKETS
No sewing required. All you need is a hot glue gun, some baby flannel, 1 & 1/2 yards of gathered lace, some pillow stuffing and you are ready to line a casket and make it warm and cozy. Then other volunteers add a new receiving blanket, handmade blanket (30x30), a small toy and its ready to go.
This isn't something you would normally do, but you will be surprised how strange it feels at first and then you get into it and start making it perfect and adding your own touches. As you go along, you will start to make this a warm, soft and loving bed for a little baby that no one wanted, but you made this special bed for them to rest.
Add a note in the bottom that no one will ever see but you. You can write a message to a loved one that has passed on or something sweet to the child that will lay in this little spot. Once you line the casket no one will ever see it, but you will know that your love went into that little box more ways then one.
In lining a casket, it takes about one yard of baby flannel material. We use flannel as it is warm and soft. Satin is slippery and cold, so we never use it. We like our caskets to be just like a little crib. Place the material over the casket on the inside and using a hot glue gun, fold over one long side and about an inch and glue about 1/4 inch from the top. Then put a little bit of stuffing on the side and glue the material into the corners. Make sure some stuffing is in the bottom then glue the other bottom corner in place. Then fold the material so that it fits nicely in the box and fold over the top at each end and glue in place. It will take a bit of time to get the folds right, but when its right you will know.
After the material is folded and glued into the box, then take about two yards of pre-gathered lace no more then and inch wide and glue along the edge and over the lip of the material. Make sure that the lace and flannel is below the wood edge so that when the top is placed back on there is not material hindering the closing and securing of the top or lid.
There is a small indented area in the lid as well and we glue the material in the lid and line it with lace as well. You can add bows, buttons or anything decorative that you might want to add. The only people that will see the inside of the casket is you and the person sealing it shut.
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| Flannel lining is warm |
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| Everything is hand-made |
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Special Casket Lining Project:
Delma Gomez, president of the Relief Society of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said her group was deeply moved to help the mission of Garden of Innocence by installing linings into hand-made caskets.
"As sisters, mothers, daughters and grandmothers, a baby is such a symbol of hope and love," said Gomez, whose organization serves San Marcos and Escondido. "We thought the project might be too grim for some young mothers and that they wouldn't want to participate. But young mothers have been our biggest supporters, perhaps because they felt so blessed to have a healthy child." |
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