Originally Posted by dlong
I'm an early 40's but have memories of feed sack dresses. Both my grandmother's raised poultry and saved all the feed sacks and flour sacks for my mom so she could make dresses for me. My first coat was my dad's navy peacoat cut up and redone for a child's coat. Don't think they ever wasted anything, but don't remember ever feeling deprived or poor though I'm sure we were at the time.
You hit on an important part of our history..."Don't think they ever wasted anything..." So true. I think the people who went through the depression were so inovative, if that's the correct term. It's too bad that we, of today, haven't kept some of those values. A lot have, but so many haven't. I think as quilters, so many have the tendency not to waste. We find ways to utilize things. It's got to be in our nature!