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Real feedsacks (sigh) you are so lucky to have them.

mlaceruby

Where can you still get flour in feedsacks?
Inquiring minds want to know?

grammo

You are right. I wore a lot of feed sack dresses as a little girl. My grandma also made a lot of aprons. My aunt just passed away and I got all the old aprons. Some have never been used. I am thinking about using the material to make a quilt.

jolo

I remember going to the store with MaMa and helping look thru the flour and sugar sacks to find the fabric we needed. Some of my dresses and bloomers were matching sets. lol. I felt dressed to kill when I got a new one.

the old one

When I was in high school, most of the girls had skirts made from feed sacks,we were a farming community and everyone bought feed for their chickens! Also, my mother sometimes hemmed them for dish towels, the flowers covered the stains. piecefully, the old one

Nanjun

what a great find. Sacks are hard to find now days.
Enjoy

rustqlts

Gal, 'way back in the 1930's (and probably earlier, but I can personally attest to the mid- 30's:)) flour, sugar, cattle feed and probably more things, were sold in bags made of printed cotton. The sugar and flour 'sacks' were made with a finer thread count than the cow feed, and were particularly prized by quilters and sewers (sewists?) to use for their quilts and clothes. I remember wearing one pair of knickers with a prominent almost-bleached-out logo of a cow's face with the inscription 'Blue Cow Cottonseed Meal'. My granny made underwear out of the coarser sacks she couldn't use for quilting or aprons, but sometimes couldn't bleach all the lettering out of the feed sacks! I think the sugar and flour sacks had printed paper labels, though.

rusty (I really *am* older'n dirt ;))

Glenda Kay

What a find! Feedsacks! Brings back fond memories. I lived with my grandmother on a farm & she used feedsacks for so many things. Quilts, sundresses for me, etc. I used to love looking for the pieces in the quilt that were like my dresses. She would tell my grandfather to be sure & find a pretty print when he went to town for supplies. Thanks for bringing back the memories.

Glenda Kay

I still have some of the aprons she made from feedsacks & believe it or not still have some scraps in my stash.

Quilt4u

Wow!!!!! Have fun.