I was given a quilt that my grandmother made in the 50's and it is made of "real" feed sacks that they saved from the feed they purchased, quilted with the string that they got wrapped around the meat packages that they got from the company store. Also, the quilt batting is actual cotton balls that my grandmother and my mother picked in the North Carolina cotton fields. I have tenderly fixed several blocks and the quilting string. I was told never to wash it so I have rinsed it in cold water and laid it on the grass in the sun in my backyard and it has turned out really well. So, if it is that old, and if it is lumpy, it may be batted with real cotton balls.
Last edited by QuiltingHaven; 04-06-2013 at 05:30 PM.