feed sacks
05-17-2015, 06:33 AM
#21
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I've had a lot of them over the years, both the print and the cream solids.
The thread per inch is much lower than quilt and fashion fabric, but the thread they were woven from are much bigger, hence the strength and long wearing tradition, and also the itchy results from wearing clothing with coarse thread.
Win and few lose a few
The thread per inch is much lower than quilt and fashion fabric, but the thread they were woven from are much bigger, hence the strength and long wearing tradition, and also the itchy results from wearing clothing with coarse thread.
Win and few lose a few
05-17-2015, 08:12 AM
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I also grew up with feed sacks for clothing, white for bloomers, and my Mom made all our dresses out of the flowered ones. Years later Mom bought fabric and my sister and I learned to make our own clothes on a treadle machine. Now it costs less to buy ready made. I would rather be quilting any way.
05-17-2015, 10:00 AM
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During WWII, my mother sewed for each of my 3 brothers in Pacific theatre boxer shorts made from feed sacks. These particular shorts were girls taking bubble baths. Their fellow sailors would have given anything to own a pair of undershorts like that.
05-17-2015, 10:01 AM
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Love this!!! Brought tears to my eyes!!!
05-17-2015, 10:20 AM
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I too, thank God for feed sacks and a mother that could sew. She made all our clothes from them. along with many bed sheets and quilts. Growing up on the farm was a little different from city life but I would not want to trade it. The fabric was a lot different from what we buy today. Mom saved every thing, then we wondered why now we wonder why not. Reclying started a long time ago.
05-17-2015, 10:26 AM
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My great aunt died and I had to clean out her house and sort. She had a dresser full of feed sacks saved from her childhood. The feed sack craze had just started with quilters. I kept several of the oldest ones and had them framed for my DDs. I gave many that had in town feed store logos to the local museum . The rest I sold to a fabric collector who offered too much for me to refuse. I like the fact the museum displays and stores the feed sacks and they are not stuck in a drawer and the collector has long since died and left her collections to various groups and museums and my DDs have a nice piece of art to display that has family connection.
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