Vintage Feedsacks
#15
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Barnesville GA
Posts: 3,181
Now that is wonderful. I wish I could find a box like that. I have been repairing a quilt for a friend and have been buying/begging bits and pieces of feedsacks just to get one piece that would blend .. LOL They make such pretty quilts congrats on your find.
#17
Have fun with your quilt, be sure to post a picture so we can see the fabric/pattern.
#19
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 1,664
Thanks for the pictures, now I know what feed sack fabrics look like. I have always pictured them like the burlap feed sack patterns and wondered why anyone would want them. My grandparents owned a large farm and had two daughters and five sons but my mom and aunt never had dress made from feed sacks and neither did my cousin when my aunt married a farmer. Thanks for the post, it is strange how your mind visions one thing when is should be something totally different.
Happy Stitching to everyone.
Happy Stitching to everyone.
#20
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Enid, OK
Posts: 8,273
I hope you "tested" first...some can look just so darling and actually be dry rotted already...so you must do a pull test to see how easily they tear. If they tear and make dust easily, you have two choices, use it anyway and pray for the best..or fuse a lightweight interfacing to the back to stabilize it.