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07-06-2010, 11:40 AM

#111

quilterguy27

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Join Date: Jan 2010

Location: North Canton, Ohio

Posts: 1,403

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Originally Posted by Halo

I still get my flour in the flour sacks & when I have enough built up I plan on making a quilt out of nothing but the flour sacks. I make sure I get a different color pattern each time I buy my flour. I am getting close to having enough for a quilt.
You are very lucky to get a hold of the feeds sack fabric.

I didn't know they still put flour, sugar, etc. in these kinds of sacks in different colors with patterns. Where do you find them? I would love to make a quilt out of flour or sugar or chicken feed sacks. Have to find them first.

07-08-2010, 05:51 PM

#112

Betty Ruth

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Join Date: May 2007

Posts: 397

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Originally Posted by Cathie_R

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Originally Posted by Gal

Love your fabric finds, what is a feedsack please?

Gal

I am not sure when this started; I think 30's. Farm wives would buy chicken feed in these pretty cloth bags. When they had enough of one pattern they would make clothes, curtains, etc. from them. I'm sure a lot of people on this board wore clothes made from feed sacks and you see a lot of the fabric in vintage quilts. (If this is not correct someone will surely correct me).

No correction needed. You are right on. When I was small, I wore feedsack dresses and flour sack panties. When I grew older, I graduated to regular store bought panties, but I still wore feed sack dresses. Flour sacks were soft fabric that was more closely woven than feed sacks. Feed sacks were used for curtains, shirts and dresses. Flour sacks were used for dish towels, under clothes and diapers. I doubt that they made very good diapers, although they were soft, but at that time, people used what they had.