Hello. I saw an article once where people were making quilts using Feed Bags (cloth type, some with patterns in them.)
I'm from Eastern Canada, and we don't use cloth for our feed bags. If anyone out there could tell me how and where to get them, I would be greatly appreciative.
It looks like a fun way to make a quilt.
I am sharon and you can email me here- snipped-for-privacy@chebucto.ns.ca
Thank you very much Have a blessed day. Sharon
After a quick search of the web--I found some on eBay but they were either plain or had text on them. I found a few suppliers but again plain or with text, no prints. Maybe someone else will know of a specific source.
-- Kathy in CA Quilting Stuff:
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Sharon, Feed sacks were used years ago for selling feed, flour, etc. in. My one grandmother used the white ones for embroidery for dishtowels and other misc. items. The other grandmother used them for making quilts, doll clothes for my mother, etc. To my knowledge they are not used any more and haven't been for quite some time. The only way to find the real true thing is ebay, auctions, etc. I think they make fabric to look like the old feed sack materials and this might be more cost effective way to get the same look as I hear that the sacks can often cost alot of money to get your hands on (around here anyways).
Good luck with your search. Charlotte
Hi,
The web site below has a fair amount of information about feedsacks:
They sell corn meal in sacks at one of the local grocery stores here. I also have seen rice sold in sacks.
lisae
JG Boutilier wrote:
In garage sales and thrift stores, look in the 'bed linens' for a feed sack pillow case. BTDT, got a few goodies! 8-) PAT in VA/USA
JG Boutilier wrote: ( cut)
I have 25lb sacks of flour in printed cotton sacks..... in the last few years. Saw some less than a year ago at the grocery store. They still sell a lot of it in cloth sacks in Mexico too. So you can get new "feed" sacks if you look for them.
Pati, in Phx
julia sidebottom wrote:
I think that 'Old Made Quilts' from the fabshophop was advertising them
- very expensive though. I also remember a Simply Quilts episode with feed sack quilts as the topic some time ago - might be some information available from their archives. Jennifer in Ottawa
------- Group: rec.crafts.textiles.quilting Date: Sun, Aug 10, 2003, 5:57pm (EDT+4) From: snipped-for-privacy@nospam.net (Butterfly) Saw them at a grocery store--just remember thinking it would take us FOREVER before we'd use that much...so I didn't get any. That's ok.... they didn't have any with POIPLE on them : ) Butterfly Pati Cook wrote: I have 25lb sacks of flour in printed cotton sacks..... in the last few years. Saw some less than a year ago at the grocery store. They still sell a lot of it in cloth sacks in Mexico too. So you can get new "feed" sacks if you look for them. Pati, in Phx julia sidebottom wrote: Up until the mid 60's we got our grains and flour in 'feed sacks' they came in any number of prints and were used for everything from clothing to quilts. The sacks were some of the first real recycled items that we really recycled. You would pick your feed or flour by the patterns of the sacks. I still have a quilt my sister made for my sister's and I using feed sacks. I still have one here. It is pretty worn so I keep it safely put away. I keep thinking that I will run across a few more in time if I keep looking at estate sales or garage sales. (places where someone my be selling and doesn't have a clue what they are). Because of the changing times and less and less farm land, our little feed store closed in the late 60's. By then however most of the feed was now being sold in burlap. juliasb Charlotte Hippen wrote: Posted and emailed: Sharon, Feed sacks were used years ago for selling feed, flour, etc. in. My one grandmother used the white ones for embroidery for dishtowels and other misc. items. The other grandmother used them for making quilts, doll clothes for my mother, etc. To my knowledge they are not used any more and haven't been for quite some time. The only way to find the real true thing is ebay, auctions, etc. I think they make fabric to look like the old feed sack materials and this might be more cost effective way to get the same look as I hear that the sacks can often cost alot of money to get your hands on (around here anyways). Good luck with your search. Charlotte "JG Boutilier" wrote in message news:bg8upg$p5c$ snipped-for-privacy@News.Dal.Ca... Hello. I saw an article once where people were making quilts using Feed Bags (cloth type, some with patterns in them.) I'm from Eastern Canada, and we don't use cloth for our feed bags. If anyone out there could tell me how and where to get them, I would be greatly appreciative. It looks like a fun way to make a quilt. I am sharon and you can email me here- snipped-for-privacy@chebucto.ns.ca Thank you very much Have a blessed day. Sharon
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