Ahhh my Grandmother made me sack dresses, I loved them dearly.. Mother was not so much. But I wore those dresses until she decided they were 'worn' and they vanished.
Thanks for the memories

I remember feed sacks rather than flour sacks, from boarding school days (4th-8th grade) because we girls would choose, among each shipment of feed for the animals/farm services, enough sacks to wash (after emptying of course), set the color (with vinegar?) starch and iron before laying dress patterns. One older girl made a more formal dress for a dance from such sources. Remember when patterns were not printed at all; you had to "read" round holes on each piece. Thanks for the memories from a 78 year old quilter. Recently, a contributor to this FB told of printed sacks she found in a grocery outlet in Idaho.

I noticed all the girls had the same hairdo. Amazing...I had gathered skirts out of feed sacks. Made them myself on mom's featherweight..and I'm 68...

Yes, the flour sack. What a great memory!

I'm also 68, Grandma did some magic on some of those feed and flour sacks. I also rode we also rode our horses to a one room school in the sumer, winter parents had to get us down.. No school bus up our road. Wish my grandkids could have experienced the way I lived, kids miss so much from the 'good old days'

I am wondering where the pic came from? The boy in the center front looks very familiar.

Believe it or not, I was at the grocery store this morning and saw that there is a mill in southern Colorado (in Cortez) that is packaging their flour in cloth flour sacks. Five and 10 pound bags. I was really surprised to see that. The sacks are white and have the name and the logo of the mill on the bag.

My husbands Great Grandmother gave his Mom all her hand made qilts..My Mother in Law gave them to me, they are falling apart but when one gets to bad I patch the spot tell my Grandson they will be his someday and he will recognize some of the patches... I love having them..

Thank you for sharing this with us :D:D:D