Feedsack dresses were not my favorite thing. Other mothers did not sew! To this day I have not bought any of the repro fabrics except for one fat quarter I am putting in a quilt I am making for MY bed. It will have at least a hundred 6 inch blocks (blue and white) with lots of memories of our family and our children and grandchildren and great grandchildren. This is my project for 2011.
Since I was born in 1923 we had the wind blowing sand that was mentioned on an earlier post and we lived in Wisconsin.
My mother was the chicken caretaker and we also would get some chicks in the spring by the postman. I remember large printed bags of oatmeal she would get for the chicks. Before any was used for the chicks, she would dip out a large bucket of oatmeal that made many,many breakfast on the days we didn't have pancakes! I still love oatmeal, the regular kind and NOT made in the microwave.