The Flour Sack

Old 03-28-2011, 07:54 AM
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Ahhh my Grandmother made me sack dresses, I loved them dearly.. Mother was not so much. But I wore those dresses until she decided they were 'worn' and they vanished.
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Old 03-28-2011, 08:01 AM
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I remember feed sacks rather than flour sacks, from boarding school days (4th-8th grade) because we girls would choose, among each shipment of feed for the animals/farm services, enough sacks to wash (after emptying of course), set the color (with vinegar?) starch and iron before laying dress patterns. One older girl made a more formal dress for a dance from such sources. Remember when patterns were not printed at all; you had to "read" round holes on each piece. Thanks for the memories from a 78 year old quilter. Recently, a contributor to this FB told of printed sacks she found in a grocery outlet in Idaho.
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Old 03-28-2011, 08:05 AM
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I noticed all the girls had the same hairdo. Amazing...I had gathered skirts out of feed sacks. Made them myself on mom's featherweight..and I'm 68...
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Yes, the flour sack. What a great memory!
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Old 03-28-2011, 08:13 AM
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I'm also 68, Grandma did some magic on some of those feed and flour sacks. I also rode we also rode our horses to a one room school in the sumer, winter parents had to get us down.. No school bus up our road. Wish my grandkids could have experienced the way I lived, kids miss so much from the 'good old days'
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I am wondering where the pic came from? The boy in the center front looks very familiar.
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Old 03-28-2011, 09:20 AM
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Believe it or not, I was at the grocery store this morning and saw that there is a mill in southern Colorado (in Cortez) that is packaging their flour in cloth flour sacks. Five and 10 pound bags. I was really surprised to see that. The sacks are white and have the name and the logo of the mill on the bag.
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Old 03-28-2011, 10:06 AM
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My husbands Great Grandmother gave his Mom all her hand made qilts..My Mother in Law gave them to me, they are falling apart but when one gets to bad I patch the spot tell my Grandson they will be his someday and he will recognize some of the patches... I love having them..
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Thank you for sharing this with us :D:D:D
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