Vintage Feedsacks
07-30-2012, 10:40 AM
#32
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Join Date: Nov 2011
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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.
07-30-2012, 11:54 AM
#33
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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!
07-30-2012, 02:40 PM
#38
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Location: Southern Mn
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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.
07-30-2012, 03:53 PM
#40
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Martinsville, Indiana
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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!
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!
