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10-22-2009, 10:01 AM
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Your feedsack quilts are really beautiful! Are they what the 30's repro fabrics are designed from? Since the fabric is 50 years old do you have to be careful how its cared for? How can a person tell if its a feed sack when you see a quilt with fabrics like that? Sorry about all the questions but it is fascinating and how wonderful that you have a large collection.
10-22-2009, 10:04 AM
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When I first starting collecting the feedsacks I would gently wash them, because I was afarid they would fall apart. The last ones I got were so dirty and stained that I ended up washing them with bleach in hot water. The colors came out so vivid. Remember these sacks are at least 50 years old.
10-22-2009, 10:10 AM
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My mother used to make all my dresses from feed sacks back in the late 40's and early 50's. She could not afford to buy fabric but several of the farmers in the area would save them for her. At the time, I was embarassed to wear them because everyone in my small town in Minnesota thought that you were poor if you wore feedsack dresses. Now I wish I had some of them. Mom is long gone but the memories remain.
Love your quilts, they really are precious.
Love your quilts, they really are precious.
10-22-2009, 10:22 AM
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Your quilts are just fabulous. I grew up on a farm but am not able to access a feed sack fabric memory from my brain, so tell me, please: is it easy fabric to work with? I'm thinking that it's loose weave, but maybe not??? I remember the flour sacks, but the only feed sacks I can remember were burlap.
10-22-2009, 10:40 AM
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I worked as a kitchen helper in Izee Oregon one year (forty years ago or so). All of the pillowcases were feed sack fabrics ... that was long before I considered doing any sewing, of course ... but, I do remember liking the fabric!
I worked as a kitchen helper in Izee Oregon one year (forty years ago or so). All of the pillowcases were feed sack fabrics ... that was long before I considered doing any sewing, of course ... but, I do remember liking the fabric!
10-22-2009, 03:57 PM
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The feed sacks are very easy to work with. For those that ask I'll take pictures of some of them in the next few days. FYI A feed sack would have held 50 lbs and measures about 45x36. A flour sack was much smaller and held 25 lbs. It's a little larger than a fat quarter. There are a few more sizes, such as a salt sack, which I've never seen. Darlene Zimmerman has a book on feed sacks that has a lot of history about the sacks plus patterns.
10-22-2009, 04:02 PM
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Originally Posted by sewmom
Your feedsack quilts are really beautiful! Are they what the 30's repro fabrics are designed from? Since the fabric is 50 years old do you have to be careful how its cared for? How can a person tell if its a feed sack when you see a quilt with fabrics like that? Sorry about all the questions but it is fascinating and how wonderful that you have a large collection.
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