Antique Textiles ❤️ Vintage FeedSack Fabric Haul ❤️ FeedSack Quilting
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- ❤️Oh for the love of antique textiles! Check out my vintage feedsack fabric scrap haul! Over 200 prints to drool over LOL 😂 These feedsack prints are precious.❤️
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I understand your passion for these vintage printed feed sacks. I grew up wearing clothing made from them. I’m 84 now but the memories are still very vivid. My mother would make me a full gathered skirt from using four sacks. She yearly raised baby chicks and would come home in their old beat up truck with the chicks and chicken feed in the brightly printed sacks. Probably only enjoyment she got from all the hard work. Close to 40 years ago I heard of an elderly lady advertising to Sell about 100 feed sacks. I immediately contacted her and drove 60 miles into the country hoping to get there before they were already gone. I was flabbergasted to see them folded neatly in a cardboard box with dried mouse droppings. 😊. But that didn’t stop me. Somehow I had a $100 bill I’d saved so it was my lucky day. I remember my excitement as I took each surprise out of the box. After giving them a good laundry I hung them outside on the clothesline in a gentle breeze. I felt like I was playing with paper dolls or dress up. Just watching them in the breeze was beautiful. Too bad I didn’t get a video of that. I recently rearranged my fabric stash and have the feed sacks brightly stacked. It’s wonderful to be able to watch your tutorial and feel the bond with you. I’ve used only two or three to make garden aprons for a daughter that always has a large garden and cans and preserves it all. Thanks for listening. And enjoy your lovely swatches. ❤
My mother was given a hand stitched quilt for her wedding that was made with original feed sack material. I now have this quilt and will treasure it for ever. ♥
oh wow...how lovely it must be to look at...💛
I can remember going to the feed store with my grandmother back in the 50’s. They bought chicken feed and she would let me pick out the sacks I wanted for play clothes. The sacks were stitched at the top with cotton string and she would save that to crochet with. My job was to roll it up into balls.
Wow...how fun Debby!!!!🎉
What a wonderful memory.
In our area the chicken feed came in larger sacks...very plain or burlap...we had serious chicken owners.
Some of those remind me of curtains and tablecloths my grandmother had. Brings back some good childhood memories!
Awe....such precious memories💛
I was a young bride in the seventies and made my own bread. I chose green check fabric to collect. For my kitchen curtains. Those were the days
I lived in the boot heel of Missouri when I was a little girl. We actually picked cotton! My grandmother made dresses for me out of those feed sacks. Thanks for bringing those memories back to me!
My mom grew up there! Her brothers picked cotton and she kept count. (Her dad owned the farm) It was in Arbyrd.
Oh wow!
I was born in 1943 and remember wearing dresses my mother made for me from feed sacks even when I was in junior high school. I loved them!
What great memories💛
I have worn feed sack dresses. My Grandmother knew when a shipment of goods was expected to arrive @ the grain/feed store, & reminded me about going to town to “shop” while the flatbed truck was gonna be loaded up. It really didn’t take me too long to make up my mind on a print choice. I got what I wanted, so no complaining from me. That was some good ole days. I was @ a yard sale this past summer, & found some sewing items placed out to sell, & I hit the jackpot when I found a 1-yard piece of feed sack fabric in a pile of other fabrics. I held onto it tight, till I paid money for it. She only charged me a dollar!!! I thought I had struck gold!!! I was definitely a happy camper…🥰
Great memories 💛
I lived by a textile factory back in the early 80's and loved grabbing their deals of "misprints". These reminded me of them. Thanks!
Oh Esther...how glorious that must have been to live next to the factory that made them....oh my! and the misprints!!!! Oh that would have been awesome!!❤️
Ohh how beautiful. All mother's dresses were all made from feed sacks. I can remember my grandmother had an old smokehouse where she kept sacks of feed sacks. if only I'd known then what I know now. Good memories.
memories💛
I just love LOVE how this video has brought back so many childhood memories to so many here! Thank you sooo much!
I'm so happy you enjoyed this video💛
Thank you so much for sharing these fabrics. It’s so comforting to think companies would work so hard to help people, using these reusable fabrics to send their goods. I especially love the ones with the thread holes, you know they are so authentic. I think you certainly got your money’s worth, these are precious. I know you will keep us updated on what you do with them. 🥰
You all will be the first to know how I use them for sure✅💛
Thats really cool. My grandmother was a tailor and back in the 1930s during the depression, my grandmother would get a hold of feed sacks and make my mom and her sisters dresses out of them. She made the girls coats out of old army wool blankets and lined them with flannel and use scraps of fabrics she would save from making clients dresses and make pretty little collars and cuffs on the sleeves. Mom said it was hard to tell they were made out of blankets when my grandmother finished them.
Awesome memories!!!💛
Hey Tracy! Very, very interesting video! Being a city kid, I heard about the use of feed sacks during the '30's, but never saw any feed sack prints or quilts made from them. It was amazing how detailed and imaginative the textile factories made the fabric prints for the sacks when they could have been left completely blank. Went over to Sew The Distance and saw a couple of the videos on Dresden Plate and Postage Stamp quilts made with feed sack fabric. Very, very interesting! Thanks for this bit of a history lesson on feed sacks. Was fun to read your other subscribers' comments about their memories of long ago and feed sacks. What a great video, Tracy! Thanks oodles!!!!!! 🥰
This video was so much fun to make...I loved seeing all the detailed prints💛 Kris at Sew the distance has a great channel on all those old quilts💛
@@TheSewingChannel I'm curious on how these multi-color prints were made on the fabrics way back when. The detail is just amazing!
Congratulations ! I almost cried when I watched the video. My whole stash of fabric was stolen in a house robbery. I am slowly rebuilding my stash. I recognized a few prints.
I loved the prints so much that I would just admire every now and then like jewels
My husband's grandmother made him a quilt top of feed sacks that was saved for when he grew up. His Mom added a wide border to make it a queen size and his aunt quilted it. I still have it. It is all muslin and solid shades of blue feed sacks. It's hard to describe: large 9" white blocks on point, surrounded by wide strips of blue squares and triangles and white squares. Some of the pale blues are now almost white. We've used it since the 70's.
Wow what a treasure you have💛
I recognized a few of those that are in squares that my grandmother made and I put into a quilt. Fun to see!
So many have such great memories of the feedsacks💛
Can remember feed sacks..We are remodeling our older home for our daughter...under the paneling is Yukon flour sacks that they used behind the wall paper..They put the sacks on the wall with tiny nails.Wall paper big red rose cluster and another layer was little pilgrims little man and woman carrying wheat..Rug was aqua color .
WOW what a neat find💛
I won a box at a local online auction filled with hundreds of feed sack scraps. Some so tiny that they could only be made into postage stamp pieces. I washed (3 times to get the stink out!), starched, pressed and then cut them all into the largest size possible. I sorted them by color and waited for inspiration to hit. I finally started the Sampler Spree Quilt by Susan Ache. I’m about 60 blocks in out of 100. The toughest part is finding lights as most of the blocks consist of a light and dark or light and medium value combination. I’m having so much fun! Each block is like a mini history piece!!!
So much fun!!!🎉
I had no idea they made such lovely feed sacks back then! Thanks for sharing with us.
Thank you for stopping by💛
These are beautiful. I watch Sew the Distance where Kris takes old quilts and repairs them. It's so neat to watch and wonder who made the quilt and the history behind them. I think I learned about you from her channel. Either way, I'm subbed to both of you. 😊
My mother told stories of what could be bought in feed sacks. Sadly her family didn't sew much, but did use them for dish towels and table coverings. Mom got the notion to start collecting feed sack cloth at thrift stores and flea markets. Took a few years to collect enough, but she eventually was able to make a hand applique dresden block full size quilt. She used black thread to applique, so those tiny bright prints just pop. Yes, I inherited the quilt. It's a gorgeous treasure! So glad she learned to sew, and taught me to. Your fabrics are lovely, and I wouldn't blame you for just admiring them for a good long time.
Oh yes the black thread would definitely make it pop💛.....I may just keep and admire for sure....it will be hard to cut into 🤷🏻♀️
Thank you Tracy! I have always loved feed sacks, they are gorgeous!
You are so welcome! So pretty!!💛
Awesome haul. This reminds me I have a box of vintage tablecloths. Time to do something with those.
Time to get em' out LOL🤣
My mom made my kindergarten first day of school outfit from flour sacks. The design was cherrys on a white back ground, that was 65 years ago.
That is awesome!
I remember my mom telling me how their school dresses were made from cotton sacks. Later when the kids were grown, my grandmother’s still kept the fabric, using it as dish towels!
Wow..great history in these fabrics!💛
It’s amazing how the pink and aqua are the same shade throughout all the prints. Love these fabrics
How wonderful! I also love vintage fabrics they are so lovely and have so much historical value. I love the bright colors and the history that goes with it. I don't collect or sew with them but I am happy with the reproduction fabrics.
Thank you so much!
Wonderful purchase love vintage fabrics
I wore many clothes in the 1950’s that my mother made me. I still have a small piece left that I treasure.
Great memories💛
This brings back so many good memories. My grandmother would make my clothes with feed sack fabric.
What a wonderful memory💛
Love this! Some of those prints remind me of dresses my mother used to make or for doll clothes. ☺️
Such wonderful memories you must have💛
What a wonderful haul! Beautiful fabrics for feed sacks!
I never knew they made flour sacks like this. How interesting and so detailed! I loved the squirrels, the children with kites and……so many others…..now I must go on EBay!
I know Linda...once you finally realize what they are....like me....you will want them all LOL😂
Now I want to see YOUR creations with this beautiful material!
Very pretty vintage fabric!
thank you Christine...I love the old fabric lately💛
beautiful fabric, I remember my mother making dresses out of the flour sacks .
Great memories💛
Loved this video the feed sack made me think of my grandparents and great grandparents. The one looked like fish to me also.
🐠 I think so too✅
Oh my word, what beautiful fabrics. Cannot wait to see what you create with all of them.♥♥♥
It was so much fun going through all the prints🎉
What a great collection! I think I would be tempted to shadow box and sash them to keep each fabric as intact as possible. Ooh, the possibilities! Peace from Ohio …
Oh I know it! That's a great idea💛
I grew up on a farm and we would get feed sacks something like these. We never knew what we would get but my mother would keep them and make my brother and I clothes from them, usually shorts or tops.
I remember mom used feed sacks to make play clothes. Some sacks were a heavy muslin type fabric & others were burlap. You could never get all the dust from the feed out of the burlap & then you had to wrestle getting the label washed out of fabric. Those were the days!!
The good ole' days💛
My grandma could see anything and she made my mom and her siblings cloths from feedsacks for as long as she could. Blouses and shirts when they were young teenagers. These are beautiful 😍
How wonderful....💛
My mother made many of my school dresses out of feed sacks when I was a little girl. I remember those dresses being comfortable and pretty. I was not the only child wearing feed sack garments to school. One of my past employers told me that she sent her Mother's feed sack fabric collection to the dump (after her Mother died). I don't know if she believed me when I told her how much she could have sold that fabric for. I wish she would have given me a chance at getting that fabric, and other items ,that she thought were worthless or useless.
Oh what a bummer that she threw that all away🙁
What an amazing collection of fabrics 🤩 I would find it hard to use them straight away 🤣🤣 I’d want to keep getting them out to look at for ages before I’d be able to cut them up to use 🤣🤣 Enjoy 😊🇬🇧
I know Glynis....it will be hard to cut...I may just keep to look at like you said💛
@@TheSewingChannel if they’re all the same size, you could make a quilt out of them w/o cutting. Then you can enjoy looking at them in a finished quilt. 😊
All of my shorts and tops were made from feed sacks during the 1950s. My mother so dim on her treadle machine
What great memories you must have....💛
So beautiful!
I was gifted a box full and can’t wait to get to them!
WOW🤩
My mother talked about these feed sacks and the dresses that they use to make with them. I didn't know that they made such cute prints! Wow! Thanks for sharing!
You're welcome...these were so much fun to go through💛
I'd scan those for fun paper patterns.
You have a lot of beautiful fabric ! Can’t wait to see what you make with it !
Thank you! 😊
Someone needs to reprint all these old prints!
I totally agree Delores!!!!✅
Love love feed sack fabric!!! The purples were my favorite.
💜For sure💜
Love just love the feed sacks fabric ❤
Me too!! They were so much fun to go through💛
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I have been collecting feed sack fabricfor about 20 years. The designs of the fabrics, is of a sweeter time. Because I am a cheapskate, I find pieces for less than 5. I have two prints of my grandmothers, so that is what started it. I probably have enough for a quilt. I am now waiting for the perfect pattern. 🙂
That is awesome!
I’m a redhead so brown is my black. All of the squares are really pretty I never knew that they did so many patterns. Thank you for sharing the video.
I didn't realize either how many patterns there are...I'm sure I scratched the surface with what I got....there are so many more out there🤷🏻♀️
Good Friday morning to you all☕☕🌞 love the feed sack material lots lots of little girl dresses made from them!!! ❤❤🐥🐥
And a good friday morn to you Neva☀️
LOVE these! All of these! Thank you for the shout out! I hope I was right. LOL! These are so sweet! Thank you for sharing all of them. ❤
Thanks Kris! I'm sure you are right LOL😂
Nice! Anxious to see your project(s) with these beautiful prints
Thank you...I have no idea yet what to do with them🤷🏻♀️
Really very pretty fabric! Can’t wait to see how you use some it. 👏👏👏👏👏
I know it Chrissy....not sure yet...maybe never lol....will be hard to cut these....🤷🏻♀️
Check out a pattern called little aprons or little dresses. I don’t d a quilt for an elderly lady and she loved it!
Awesome!
I have seen that pattern. These would be beautiful for those patterns. Would be great for a sew along on that pattern. We can only wish.
Awesome collection. Love the bright colors and designs. :)
Thank you...I was surprised at the "brightness" of some of the colors....
I have several of the feedback bags, ( still have stitching), a lot of your pieces I have the full bags. I want to use them but, I don't want to cut them lol
You have treasure then✅
Beautiful and lovely.. I recently bought a whole bolt of "Cheddar" color to make a pineapple quilt..
Wonderful! That color is hard to find🧡
I remember my mom making clothes for me and my siblings.out of flour sacks. She was a very meticulouss seamstress, my sisters and I are too.
So special to have those memories💛
My little brother had am outfit made out of a print with little sombreros and soropies. So cute.
This one goes on my list of favs. Enjoyed looking at the fabrics. Very few talk about the fabrics & colors they buy and use in their quilts.
Definitely a fun video to make....I really enjoyed looking through these fabrics.💛
Oh my gosh a sun bonnet Sue and Sam would be a great quilt.
I love all of them!
Mee too💛
I had some feed bags once. but did not sew with. Your haul is great. Have fun with those fun fabrics
They are so precious...I'm not sure what I will do with them💛
Beautiful fabrics! Some of the larger prints look like wall paper from the forties era. I love vintage fabric and buy it at antique stores when I find it. I especially love linen from the fifties and sixties.
Vintage fabric is so much fun to collect💛
That’s really neat. I read about feed sack fabric but have never seen it.
My first time seeing it in person✅
I was going thru saved post...if you can find it it is labeled Susan Word. Vintage America uncovered.
I love feed sack fabric! Did not know you could order this in packs. My mom had seed sack dresses growing up. I’m going to have to look it up, but I don’t think they printed them past the sixties? Thanks for sharing!
You are so welcome! This was such a fun video to make!!!🎉
I would have to go back and watch some movies of different era's and hope to see some of the quilts, table clothes and what was worn that era.
yes Ernest...the history is so interesting✅
@@TheSewingChannel How far back fid you look.? I heard you mention years as a possible year
Very nice. Lots of details. Curious, does this fabric feel different than the cotton fabric we get today?
Yes...so much detail to take it💛
Wow you did great! I'm so jelly. Don't feel bad about the price. I gave an arm for crown royal whiskey bags to make a quilt for my daddy. What we do right?
This was definitely an awesome vintage fabric haul💛
Nice fabric!
Thank you! 😊
I saw a tulip tiny square! Beautiful
So pretty!
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love feedsacks
I love how the prints are so precious💛
Dresses For Girls In The World would be cute in these!
yes they would💛
I think I may have some of the navy and pink one you pointed out
So pretty💙
Oh my, I did not realize that I am so much older than you. I am 67. Started sewing in grade school. After I learned embroidery.
there were no cloth flour sackd in the 1970s. They slowly faded out starting in the late 50s and early 60s. More access to transportation.
You said people who sewed...Back then if you didnot sew you might go naked. I think 80 to 90 % of women and girls sewed.
the designs did not indicate when they were used to carry staple goods.
paisleys started appearing in late 40s and have remained strong.
the darker inked fabrics are most likely fakes.
feed sacks were primarily burlap. most were returned for reuse.
my favorite design that I sewed with was a white with spaced apart stripes of blue, red and yellow. I think it may have been 10# bags of flour.
each mill and product had its own particular designs.
as they became fancier there were dress patterns printed that you could mail order. they told you how many of what size you needed to make your garment.
if you sent child or hubby or gramps to the store they were gived a list of exactly which brand, and series and name of print....dont bother to bring something else.
you could buy things like cornmeal, bulgar, rye, wholewheat flour, bleached flour, oatmeal, grits, (maybe coffee), sugar.
a note on cornmeal, in our area, if you grew corn...you would go to the local grist mill with your corn and your sacks...you could get corn meal and white grits and yellow grits and hominy...while you waited or shopped. Oh yes, cracked corn for the chickens.
I actually recognized a few of your swatches. But I think most are fakes.
but should make a very pretty quilt.
the one with the men pushing and lifting boxes was a safety instructional reminder of how to use proper ways to move heavy objects. No internet or TV.
There were more fabrics too, velours and Domestic, duck, etc... I have a couple yards of domestic.
If i could get several yards of the good cotton...I would like to make myself some bloomers.
Wow thank you so much for the history lesson...I appreciate it so much💛
Feed sacks
I'm no expert on feed sacks but in the South flower only come in white fabric in the early 60's. I remember no prints. I did a little research when I lucked up at a moving sale(Mother had died) and found a very large storage bin that I thought where scraps because some feed sacks had been unraveled. Then I found a complete bag. I must be setting on a gold mine because there is maybe 1/2 yard per bag. They are in mint condition. I paid 10 dollars for bin and all the contents. It probably weighs 50 pounds. During Roosevelt's administration he decided feed bags should be 25-50 pound bags doing away with the smaller bags. I'm sure some filtered through til they ran out or was sold as cloth. I saw no bags in the 70's. I don't think flour come in them anymore. In the early 60's in Alabama only white was used for flour. Families were larger and fast food places hadn't made it to smaller places. Mom and Pop diners we're still around for working men and lunches. Home cooked meals. We had homemade biscuits for breakfast and homemade bread. You didn't buy smaller than a 25# bag of flour
WOW! You are definitely sitting on a gold mine Pamela!!✅🎉
What are you going to make with 5x8” pieces? I think you could call it “My Mumbo Jumbo Feedsac Quilt” what fun!!!! So have fun....BJP
Not sure yet! But I love your idea💛
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Love the fabric what are you going to make with it . I MUST SEE IF I CAN FIND SOME IN ENGLAND. Thanks for sharing your finds . X
Not sure yet...I may just keep them to pass down...not sure🤷🏻♀️
How would you compare the quality of this fabric to today’s quilt shop fabric? They look like the weave is pretty tight.
Seams tight....and "thicker" on some.....overall probably better than some of the "cheap" fabric of today✅
I love your fabrics. How do you plan to use them?
Thank you...not sure yet🤷🏻♀️
How big were your pieces. Also, we’re these reproductions or original feed sacks. Thank you. Love your channel
I was told from the seller that these were all original feedsack pieces....5" x 8".✅
I have a lot of vintage fabric. How would i recognize if i have any feedsack fabric among what I have
I'm not certain how to know for sure...the ebay seller that I bought from was very knowledgeable and she had been collecting them since the 70s....One sign is the holes on one side of the fabric like I show in the video...but even if it didn't have hole that may just mean that part was cut off.✅
@@TheSewingChannel thank you for your reply.
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❤️❤️❤️ Thank you for stopping by Liv❤️
@@TheSewingChannel you’re so welcome, love ya!!💗
Hey there Tracy this has nothing to do with this video but I thought I saved the video where you made those little cord ties I can’t find it
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@@TheSewingChannel I found it late last night by fluke. Thanks!! Going to Dollar Tree in a few to pick up that wire
@@TheSewingChannel wrong time of year for floral wire. Darn. Amazon here I come. Michael’s is across town
Looking for check material
I got my feedsacks free from a farmer neighbor, at their garage sale. Some are still in seedsack form.
Tracy, I don’t think those are all feedsack. They look like 30s reproduction fabrics, which is different than feedsack. Feedsack is a bit of a looser weave.
The ebay seller said that she has been collecting the feedsacks since the 70s and has a huge collection that she puts out for auction every week.🤷🏻♀️ She sent me private pics of her entire collection that were all feedsacks...She seemed legit.....I hope she was anyway. Because I would not know the difference of course....
@@TheSewingChannel I think if you check out 1930s reproduction prints on eBay, you will find many many prints to fall in love with. I love the fabric so did a great deal of research. Have an entire bucket full and have made many many quilts with 30s reproduction prints because I absolutely love it so much.
I love these, but they look really thin.
There were a few on the the thin side....most were stronger weave than even fabric of "today"...They probably had to be a certain strength to hold seed, flour and sugar....✅
My mom lived on a farm as a child and complained to us kids about the "feed sack" dresses my grandma used to make her. I think she just wanted us to feel sorry for her because I don't get it!! LoL. Now, my mom was born in 1936 and grew up with the depression, so that would be your dates? BTW... I read even people with money loved these feedbacks!... Okay Mom! Lol
I bet the dresses were darling...times were so simple....💛