misseva

Yes, I remember my mother making me dresses out of feed sacks. They were good cotton. You could tell if someone had a feed sack dress or pinafore because you would have two different prints. Back then they didn't mix fabrics like they do now. I actually have a little booklet with the cover coming off that has patterns/instructions on how to make things out of flour/feed sacks.

rosimone

My father had a feed and produce store and I have seen him move several one hundred pound sacks of feed to get one of the farm ladies the pattern of fabric she needed for a dress. Everything I wore for many years was of feed sack fabric and I even had a couple of sacks in my cedar chest and made a dress for my daughter when she was 5 or 6 years old. Just great fabric and many happy memories of playing on those huge racks of feed.

SugarCookie

My little Polish grandma used to make little dresses for me from the feed/flour sacks. Then she would take the scraps and use them for quilt squares and made her beautiful quilts for each of us grandkids. I still have her quilt and the material is just a nice as it was when she gave it to me over 50 years ago. Wish I had some of the little dresses yet. As a kid, I cried when I found out that the dresses were made of feed sacks and would not wear them anymore. What a little dummy I was. Mama should have spanked me and put them away in a safe place till I wised up later. Unfortunately, or fortunately, she handed them down to the younger cousins to wear. I'm sure none of them refused to wear them. Thank you, Grandma.

MargeD

What a truly awesome find - quilts from your DMIL and feed sacks to make more quilts. You never know what you will find in attics in an old home. What a great treasure.

Momo

I would get skirts and dresses made from them. My grandmother would sew them for me.

farmquilter

I agree about not cutting into the bags. I finally washed all of mine, about 100, this past summer. I do plan to make a number of small quilts to gift and use current light green as sashing between squares. They are a bit on the coarse side and might be a bit scratchy but the holes give the fabric away. Each bag is 1 yard of fabric, mine are anyway.

needles3thread

I, too, love feed/flour sacks and have a small collection of them. I remember having clothes, table cloths, curtains, dish towels etc. made from them. The ones I have will be made into quilts when I get around to doing it.

Shorebird

Aren't they lovely?? I remember my Grandmother gave me all of her old feed sacks back in the mid 60's - before I started to really quilt.......and I made most of my oldest daughter's dresses from those feed sacks.......

KGoodhand

I love hearing all these stories about the feed sacks! I grew up away from farming so had no idea about these fabrics! But I have always admired the quilts I see made from them! It is my dream to someday be able to make a quilt from these beautiful fabrics! Now I just need to find them!! I have been lucky enough to find some in scraps that I have received, maybe enough o make a nice table runner. Oh well I just have to keep my eyes open!

Jeanette Frantz

I have worn many a dress made from feed sacks! They were a wonderful treasure-trove. It's too bad that we don't get them anymore! Unfortunately, I think a lot of youngsters today would be horrified if it was suggested that their clothes were made from feed sacks/and we got flour sacks, too!

Jeanette Frantz