EasyPeezy

Wish they'd bring those flour sacks back...I could have my own stash.

Jammin' Jane

WOW! That's one big flour sack!
I've never seen one so big!!!

Rose_P

This is the first I heard that anyone was reviving this great concept. Now I just have to point out that the expiration date on that flour is fast approaching. (It might be a 2 year supply of flour in my house, and I do lots of baking!) If you have freezer space, flour will keep a very long time frozen in containers or freezer bags.

Hope you will show us the finished quilt!

lynnie

Looks like you can back it in one pc.

We dont have that around here.
You lucky stiff. Have fun

lynnie

Now...if they pit cat food in that id be fabric rich.
they need to use that for pkg now a days, i hear
it recycles nicely. Lol

fleurdelisquilts.com

I raised 3 boys and still buy rice in 20 lbs sacks, but they are plastic. My mom raised 8 daughters and made bread for the family a couple of times a week. Back then she bought flour in 50 lb sacks made of paper with plastic liners. Back in the 30's larger families cooked from scratch and bought food in the most economical way possible--in bulk. Some garments took more than one sack, so they tried to find sacks with matching fabrics or traded with other families to get enough of one print.

You get my vote for using sacks for lots of staples, even small in small amounts. There's a south Louisiana rice company that packs rice in cotton sacks but they only sell locally. I can't even get it here in Central La. Besides, I just don't know how many others would purchase their food that way. People are so worried about cleanliness and product tampering, plus the FDA would likely have something to say about it. But wouldn't that be great for us? Maybe we could eventually talk them into using quilter's cottons. Don't know about you all, but my family would be in some kind of trouble if they didn't save their sacks for me!

Teddybear Lady

My DH says his mom used to make some of their clothes out of feed sack material. He's 57 years old so it hasn't been that long ago. I have quilts on my bed from both grandmothers. The backing is made from the large sacks of feed my grandpas used to buy to feed their stock on the farms. I still have some of it that has been washed and folded in my stash. I'm thinking of using it on the back of the quilt (pictured in my avatar) that I've hand pieced.

nls

Lucky find!!

JustJeanne

I collect vintage feedsacks and I haven't seen one that big before. LOL. Great find. It would make a great quilt backing. It would also make a great quilt front. Snowball and nine patch comes to my mind. Have fun with it.