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My grandmother made this quilt, and I've just now come to appreciate it. She passed away in 1979 in her 80's. I think this quilt must have flour sacks/feed sacks in it.
Can anyone identify any of the materials as flour sacks or feed sacks? I just started doing some simple quilt tops this year, and I'm hooked. After a long career in education, I never thought I would get involved in quilting, but I'm learning and love it! |
Beautiful quilt, no wonder you love it!!
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Grandma's are seldom appreciated until their grandchildren are older. You have a great treasure there, it is beautiful
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Oh, I really wish flour still came in sacks like that, instead of paper or plastic. Think of all the fun things we could make!
Sorry, I can't ID the material for you :) |
check out www.feedsacklady.com
I am doing one of her quilts now. |
Such a pretty quilt. Those are my type of colors...good job.
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Your GM's quilt is gorgeous! Sorry, can't help with feed-sack question.
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Very very Beautiful!!
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I love old quilts.... reminds me of my grandma!
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Beautiful quilt! How wonderful that you have that from your grandmother! Sorry I can't help with the fabric. I like the block, though.
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How very lucky you are!! It is a lovely quilt!
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Beautiful, what a treasure.
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Several of the pieces are feedsacks. I recognize a few. The green, yellow, white with bits of orangy red, the blue with roses and I think the yellow print.
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What a treasure!
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Very beautiful and a treasure to remember your Grandma. Thanks for sharing :)
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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 ;) ;)
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Thank you for that information!
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What about flour sacks?
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Originally Posted by n2scraplvr
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 ;) ;)
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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.
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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.
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Originally Posted by Briar Rose
Originally Posted by n2scraplvr
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 ;) ;)
:D :D one of my minis of all feedsacks [ATTACH=CONFIG]196846[/ATTACH] |
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 |
It is beautiful !! :-D
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Originally Posted by Happy Treadler
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.
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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.
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Originally Posted by n2scraplvr
Originally Posted by Briar Rose
Originally Posted by n2scraplvr
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 ;) ;)
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Originally Posted by Briar Rose
Originally Posted by n2scraplvr
Originally Posted by Briar Rose
Originally Posted by n2scraplvr
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 ;) ;)
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Just beautiful. A treasure for sure!
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