Do You Want To See Where Quilts Really Come From?
#1
Since this is the harvest season for cotton I thought you might be interested in seeing some of these pics.
Cotton Plant
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Cotton Field
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Cotton Gin
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More Cotton Bales
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I love seeing the cotton fields in Arkansas and southern Missouri. My Mom and her family was cotton pickers when she was a kid. She told many stories around time in the cotton fields. My favorite one is when she was eight, she found some bricks at the end of a row. When you get paid by the pound, she knew if her bag was heavier she would get paid more. Those old men knew how heavy a bag should be and picked up on something amiss. Found the bricks and nicknamed her "the Brick Picker"
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Those are great thank you, I have a "cotton wall" in my family room. Has a cotton plant roots and all and pictures of mules as my DH in his youth had them on the Missouri farm his dad worked..........calla Pick some bouls for me for a jar.........
#9
Great photos, cotton is being harvested down here in Texas now too!. My husband pointed out the loose white bolls all along the side of the road from when the trucks with the baled cotton goes by. Theyu bale it in big huge bread loaves down here, don't think I've ever seen it wrapped in yellow!
I am a spinner too, I used to collect all the cotton bolls along the roadways & spin it, too old & lazy to get out there & scavenge now though.
Debs & Hemi
I am a spinner too, I used to collect all the cotton bolls along the roadways & spin it, too old & lazy to get out there & scavenge now though.
Debs & Hemi
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