Feed sack fabric - who remembers?
11-07-2013, 05:48 AM
#41
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What a terrific find and a precious one, too!
Not growing up on a farm, I was never around any feed sacks. I never imagined they came in patterns or were anything but a real course material - the only sacks I ever saw were burlap!
Not growing up on a farm, I was never around any feed sacks. I never imagined they came in patterns or were anything but a real course material - the only sacks I ever saw were burlap!
11-07-2013, 05:54 AM
#42
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I can remember sitting beside Grandad in the mule-drawn wagon, going into "town" to get chicken feed. He would take a small sample of the fabric Granny needed to make the sleeves for a dress she was sewing. I have one of Granny's quilts made from the scraps she had. She cut the scraps into strips and sewed them together to make the quilt top. I had it professionally quilted and bound so it would last a long, long time. I will proudly pass it along to my daughter someday, hopefully with the crocheted bedspread from the other side of the family and several of the quilts I'm making.
11-07-2013, 06:14 AM
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Feed sack cotton was wonderful to work with. I am old enough to remember wearing feed sack clothes to school. During the war, my mom found some "risqué" girls taking a bubble bath (only head and bubbles showed. She made each of my brothers a pair of boxer shorts and sent them to the Pacific theatre where they really enjoyed those shorts and got a lot of ribbing about them, I might add.
11-07-2013, 07:56 AM
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Material feedsacks
Thank you for sharing your story about the material feedsacks. I am 59 now and clearly remember my dad going to the feed store and bringing home feed for the cows in material feedsacks. My mom would make my 2 sisters and 8 blouses and depresses from them. My mom just passed away June 21, 2012 and after going through the house, she still had folded material feedsacks neatly put away. A "jewel"!!! Memories of long ago to cherish in my heart for years. An item the new generation will never comprehend the worth of a material feedsack.
My DMIL passed several years ago - she lived in the old family homestead - built in the late 1800s. After she passed, we let our son and his wife live in the house. When they decided to move out, we had to do some serious cleaning out of all the old furniture and things. In a cedar chest in the attic, I found several quilt tops - and these wonderful feed sacks... I remember my grandmother talking about how long it would take my grandpa to pick up chicken feed because he would search for the prettiest feed sacks so she could make dresses for my Mom and aunts. These had to have belonged to my husband's grandma Minnie....who passed back in 1976 !! The fabrics and the quilt tops - which I plan to finish - look brand new. I feel like I have been given a most wonderful gift !!! Right now i'm trying to find a Christmas themed wall hanging that would highlight the red and green fabric. Anyway....thought some of you ladies who know about [ATTACH=CONFIG]445155[/ATTACH]feed sacks would appreciate the story.
11-07-2013, 09:12 AM
#49
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Oh, I remember them well. Our neighbors raised turkeys and the feed came in those wonderful printed sacks. When they got feed the lady would open the seam and wash them the sell them to us for 25 cents each. I would be given $2 and walk nearly a mile over the hill to pick out sacks for my dresses. I was thrilled to be able to choose for myself. I was about 8 to 10 years old. I have gotten some from an auction several years ago, no plans for them may just sell to anyone really interested. Memories - aren't they wonderful!!! Ruth
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