pjustice63

Saw lots of it coming south. The fields look so empty when going north for Xmas.

winipb2

Thanks for pics. I think I will snagg them and put them in a frame for my new Quilting Studio.
Also reminded me of a story from long ago - A friend and I were out riding and she saw a cotton field, asked what kind of flower that was. Me being the prankster told her that she was looking at a tabacco field and they grew the filtered stuff on the outside of the fields to protect the tabacco. She was a very gullible person and believed me all day until she went home and visited her mother. Her mother roared with laughter and told her that I had gotten her again! Thanks again for the pics and the trigger to a memory that brought me smiles.

Quilty-Louise

The last job I worked in NC before leaving was in
a cotton mill. We would get bundles of "raw" uncleaned
cotton and have to process it all the way to point that
it became blanket yarn.

Working in a cotton mill is hard and hot work. On the
average 90 degree summer day outside the heat index in
the plant would be about 135+ degrees and that was WITH
fans blowing.

This is the TYPE of blanket yarn we made. Each "core"
would weigh 8-10 pounds.

The second photo is not one of the designs the company
made, but it is same STYLE and TYPE (with the fringe). I
have a USAF blanket that I bought at the retail outlet store
the company had.

franair

Very interesting I have never seen a cotton field..

dunster

We had a small farm in NM when I was little and we grew some cotton, also peanuts, sweet potatoes, corn, maize, alfalfa, sugar cane, broom corn, and soybeans. The cotton field is much prettier when it's in bloom, before the bolls form. I still remember my father taking me through a cotton gin. I picked a little cotton just for fun, but I was too young to pull the big long bag down the row. I also remember getting sick after eating the raw peanuts in the field.

rosiewell

Wow, I have never seen a cotton field nor a cotton plant except in the movies. Thanks the things we take for granted!

jahaper

Neat! Thanks for the photo's.

Sew and Sew

That is really neat.

Lavada

as i am orginally from arkansas i think cotton fields in bloom are beautiful but as having tohoe weeds out of the plants and picking by hand that is hard work i know because i have done both but thanks for your pictures brings back memories for me

Nanaquilts44

I live near some cotton fields here in Texas. I love to see it growing. It has all been harvested here. The cotton crops took a hit this summer with this bad drought and terrible heat. The plants did not grow as well but they still got a harvest! Thanks for the pictures!