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05-14-2011, 05:23 AM

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donnaree59

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I'm not sure about the feedsacks, but you sure have one beautiful treasure there! It's wonderful. Can feel love flow out of it just from looking at it.

05-14-2011, 08:47 AM

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So very beautiful! I use feedsacks in with vintage and newer fabrics and love the look! Feedsacks are rough feeling and coarser than cotton. You can tell just by looking at them usually. They look loosely woven so you can spot them right away! It's gorgeous! :D ;) ;)

What about flour sacks?

In your last pic, the 2nd block on the left is definitely a feedsack print with turquoise background and the pink and blue on the right is feedsack material. I don't feel the yellow one is a feedsack print. Flour sacks are quite different from the feedsacks. The printing on them were water soluable but can still be found with some of the inks on them. Usually the line that tells you how to remove the ink from the flour sack is still visible on the backs of quilt blocks today. Most of the feed sacks and flour sacks from the 30's were used in clothing because of the depression era and not being able to afford new clothing. Many were used in quilts though and are quite distinctive in appearance. After you view a couple of the prints, it becomes easier to spot them. Flour sacks are still being made today in cotton fabric by a company in Kansas, (I think Kansas Seal) but you can purchase reproductions of those prints at many fabric shops today. You have a real treasure there!

:D :D

one of my minis of all feedsacks

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05-14-2011, 09:10 AM

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http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-31450-1.htm

Here's a link to the feedsack mini that you can see close ups of the material and see how loosely woven it is.

n2 :D

05-14-2011, 10:31 AM

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It is beautiful !! :-D

05-14-2011, 10:35 AM

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Briar Rose

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Beautiful quilt! I THINK it's a 1930's-ish era quilt, am I correct? Could you please tell me how it is binded? I'm working on finishing an old log cabin quilt for my SIL that her grandma never finished (I hand tied it after researching how the original ones were done, but I don't know if I should do a regular binding or not). Hoping to give it back to her for her birthday in June. She thinks she just gave it to me because she knows I love quilts, so she should be surprised when she gets it back.

Now, that's interesting. I've just started doing some machine quilting tops, so I don't know much. It seems that the binding has been sewn (re-sewn) by someone on a machine in recent years. My mom had it for awhile, so she might have done that to save it. I don't know. It is apparent to me now that the backing is feedsack material and I'm guessing most of the rest. I don't know when she did it. I was born in 51 and always lived nearby and never saw her doing any quilting, so I think it was a survival quilt from way back.

05-14-2011, 10:38 AM

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Thank you for the assistance. I can see that weave in some of the material for sure and also in the back completely. You know, I've had this quilt for awhile, and I honestly wondered what it was good for until I started doing some amateurish quilt tops lately on the machine and started noticing the quilts I had here and there. I should have appreciated it before. I will be making a label for it. I just wish I knew when she made it for sure. My mom is gone, so I can't ask her. It was made by her mother-in-law.

Thanks again!