Thrift store find!
#34
Originally Posted by quilting librarian
Originally Posted by Cathie_R
I doubt if the holes would disapear. Are there selvages? If they are 35" wide they are probaby fabric yardages of the same era. Nice find. In antique stores the feedsacks sell for a lot more than you gave for them.
#36
Originally Posted by Cathie_R
Originally Posted by Gal
Love your fabric finds, what is a feedsack please?
Gal
Gal
#38
Originally Posted by skydiver70
Feedsack cloth is a what Mama used to make my clothes from when I was young. We would have a "peddling truck" come by our community almost every week. That was the only way we had to get groceries and other items we needed. Sometimes we would sell our eggs to them or swap the eggs for items we needed. They carried feed (chicken and cow feed) in these sacks. Like the other person said, they came in different patterns and colors. Mama would try to get enough of each pattern and color to make our clothes. When I was in the 6th grade, she made me a dress that I thought was the most beautiful dress I had ever seen. "All from feedsacks" I still have some of the feedsacks from way back then. The fabric lasts forever.
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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.
You are very lucky to get a hold of the feeds sack fabric.
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