This is a picture of a beautiful sealing room in the Draper Temple. The altar in the middle will have a cloth over it to keep it from getting worn and dirty. This is where families are sealed for eternity.
I have been diligently working on an altar cloth. The due date is somewhere between April 1st and May 1st. It has not been officially told to us. I was given very vague instructions on how to make it. My friend Teri is making one too. She and I had many questions about how to make them. I asked the matron at the Jordan River temple and the ladies that work with the alter clothes some questions we had which made it clearer what was expected. After picking a pattern and mapping it out on graph paper, I got right to work on it. I need to do 10 motifs a week to finish near to the dates that it is expected. Many talented women make these to cover the padding over the alters of the temples. Now that I have experienced the long hours that it takes to make one, I will be paying closer attention to them and appreciating them more.
I work anywhere from an hour to 5 hours a day on it to get it finished by those dates. The 30+ hour car ride to VA will give me plenty of time to catch up on some of it. I am using a size 10 needle and size 20 crochet cotton. It is very small stitching and my hands have been bothering me a little, so I took a little break for a couple of days. I am honored to be able to use my crochet talents to make this. I hope many families will sealed over it.
Cynthia
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