Caroline S

I was going through my "stash trunk" yesterday and came across these two flour sacks, still stitched. I think they came from my deceased Aunt Peggy. One never knows what one will find in 20 year old stash!

sheila bee

I did the same thing last week and found two I didn't know I had !!!!! A nice surprise !!!!

Linda B

I've wondered what seed sacks actually looked like. Now I know. Do 'they' (whoever 'they' are) still make them?

Scrap Happy

Thanks for sharing your picture, I've never seen them. Back in the good old days. :) I guess a lot of quilters back then must have bought their flour sacks by the kind of fabric - must have made grocery shopping more fun :)

irishrose

During WWII rationing when so much needed for the war effort, my grandmother made me dresses from feed sacks. G'ma was an accomplished seamstress, so I'm sure they were nice dresses.

I think King Arthur flour is selling 25 pound bags in feed sacks again.

Halo

If you have a Win-Co store near you, you can still get flour in the fabric sacks. I always buy my flour in the fabric sacks. I have around 10 sacks so far in all different fabric patterns. I plan on making a quilt out of them when I feel I have enough. You get around a 27X27 piece of fabric.

kateyb

My mom's cousin made us cloths from the feed sacks when I was a kid. The fifty pound bags had a good amount of fabric.