Vintage Feedsacks
 

A couple months ago purchased a large box FULL of old feedsack fabrics( at A great price)...they are beautiful! Well starting a quilt with some of them today. Hope everyone has a wonderful "Quilting Day":)

Oh how cool!
Have a great time!
May your cuts all be true and your stitches even!

What a lucky and wonderful find!

Hi
Can you post some pictures? What pattern are you making? I'd love to see it as it progresses. :-)

Iwould love to know where you find these fabrics. joyce j

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Pictures are posted of fabric

At your request pic's.....now up

It is my dream to find a box of feedsacks!!!!

GREAT!!! Hope to see them when you are finished.

Beautiful fabs considering the age. You should have a beautiful when finished!

Great find - good for you! Enjoy.

OOOooo so beautiful! Please post a photo of the quilt when it's finished! I'd LOVE to see it.

What pattern are you using? I, too, have recently inherited a box of feedsack fabric. Can't decide what to do with it.
Your fabrics are lovely!

Now that is wonderful. I wish I could find a box like that. I have been repairing a quilt for a friend and have been buying/begging bits and pieces of feedsacks just to get one piece that would blend .. LOL They make such pretty quilts congrats on your find.

My dream also...just don't know where to look. Those are so beautiful, makes me remember my grandmother.

How lucky to have found this box . I grew up wearing the printed feed sack clothes. I think my Mom paid 3 cents extra a bag to get the printed ones. She would get 3 or 4 of the same print. wish I knew where I could find them again.
Have fun with your quilt, be sure to post a picture so we can see the fabric/pattern.

Me, too. Would love to see what you are making.

Thanks for the pictures, now I know what feed sack fabrics look like. I have always pictured them like the burlap feed sack patterns and wondered why anyone would want them. My grandparents owned a large farm and had two daughters and five sons but my mom and aunt never had dress made from feed sacks and neither did my cousin when my aunt married a farmer. Thanks for the post, it is strange how your mind visions one thing when is should be something totally different.

Happy Stitching to everyone.

I hope you "tested" first...some can look just so darling and actually be dry rotted already...so you must do a pull test to see how easily they tear. If they tear and make dust easily, you have two choices, use it anyway and pray for the best..or fuse a lightweight interfacing to the back to stabilize it.

My grandma use to make us a new dress for school each year out of flour sacks. The one I remember most was yellow with little flowers

lucky find, lucky you, they look pristine. keep us posted on your project

oh how pretty!!!!

WOW LOVE it!

I got a bunch of feedsack scraps from eBay and they are gorgeous! I am going to pair them with white feedsack towels (from a reputable home store) to match the weave and weight of the feedsack fabric. My strategy is to make as many HSTs as possible, saving all the scraps-from-the-scraps to use in mile-a-minute or string blocks, or what I call "Franken-blocks" (say, a nine-patch block that has one of the units pieced from two fabrics). I will likely end up with HSTs of different sizes for additional projects - or maybe a pieced border.

I first need to group the scraps into sizes to determine what size(s) of HST to make, and set aside larger squares for more block options. Depending on how many HST I get, there are several options - an Ocean Waves variation, Broken Dishes, Depression block, checkerboard, Annie's Choice, Fancy Stripes, Mosaic 2, Indiana Puzzle, etc. etc. etc. I could also just alternate squares of the feedsack with plain white feedsack squares.

Was this an online purchase? If you don't mind, you might share where you found these.

What about trying one of these:

Here is the link for an easy tutorial:
http://quiltingtutorials.com/all/sta...ilt-turnovers/

There are also directions at the Quilters Cache for a 10 inch block. Here is that link:
http://www.quilterscache.com/P/Pinwheel8Block.html

I purchased them here in North Carolina at a house auction and elderly lady who had passed away & they sold her things. I could never afford them on line...they would have cost hundreds of dollars I know. Ok I will make you all crazy with the price of $25.00 for the whole box, nothing short of a steal.

When I was growing up, my grandmother used feed sacks for everything. I remember the dish towels the best.

Wonderful. They will make a pretty quilt!

Beautiful patterns and colors.

Sounds like you really got a deal. As a collector for many years, I've seen the prices really go up. Anyway, I had a collection and I'm in a group of 6 who handquilt weekly. Two of the other ladies also had some feedsacks, so we shared with the others and all of us made a Turning Twenty quilt. They turned out beautiful. We even put feedsacks on the back so the entire quilts would be Vintage fabric. Have fun with your stash.

Don't you just love the feel of the feedsack cotton? So soft and strong. I am happy for you. This is from a "kid" who wore feedsack clothes, underclothes, pajamas, etc. My favorite memory is when my mother found feedsacks with bathing beauties on them (really, just heads and toes covered by bubbles in between). She made one of my brother 2 pairs of boxer shorts and sent them to him somewhere in the South Pacific. They were the rage of the entire ship!

Where do you find feed sack fabrics? These are a vivid memory from my childhood.

Oh, my goodness, that is "a steal"! And they are gorgeous! I hope to one day be so lucky to find some beautiful feedsacks like that! Enjoy yourself, and do them proud!

Awe, love those fabrics, bet it's gonna be a beauty!

Good for you.

Lucky you. I was at an estate/garage sale a couple weeks ago and eyed a box of feed sacks, but I didn't get to them before someone else picked them up. I followed her around for awhile hoping she would put them down, but no such luck. I thought about wrestling her to the ground for them, but could see the headlines. "Local women thrown in jail for fighting over a box of fabric." So had to let that go.

thank you for showing them they are beautiful

Just what is a good price for feed sacks? Does anyone know the going rate for them? I was at a store a while ago and the woman there said that she knew someone had some for sale, but I didn't ask what price they were, because I was looking for something else at the time. So sad, now that I've read this posting. :(
My mother had some that she got at a feed mill years and years ago. The only things left of them when she died was the white kitchen towels that she made from some white ones. I still have some of those towels and use them!