Originally Posted by Cathie_R
Originally Posted by Gal
Love your fabric finds, what is a feedsack please?
Gal
I am not sure when this started; I think 30's. Farm wives would buy chicken feed in these pretty cloth bags. When they had enough of one pattern they would make clothes, curtains, etc. from them. I'm sure a lot of people on this board wore clothes made from feed sacks and you see a lot of the fabric in vintage quilts. (If this is not correct someone will surely correct me).
I remember walking the mile to the feedstore with my grandmother and asking the owner to please save 'this' one when you come to it. It was chicken feed in them and we never made him move those heavy bags but he sure saved them for us and we had some lovely dresses made from feed sacks. My mom made us matching sundresses once, took quite a few sacks.