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Vintage Fabrics For Sale, Sewing Fabric Storage, Vintage Fabric Prints, Vintage Haberdashery, Feedsack Quilt, Sewing Project Ideas, Flour Sacks, Rag Garland, Feedsack Fabric

Hi guys! Life has been crazy lately. I went to an estate sale 2 weeks ago and I'm just now getting things out of the boxes!. I have had numerous trips to the chiropractor, 6 fillings replaced because they were apparently old..or the dentist needed work? (Hope not!) There was a church Thanksgiving luncheon for 100+ senior citizens and one funeral reception to serve.Not sure how I end up on all those committees? Anywho..feed sacks. I loooove these. I got a goodly stack. The ones on the bottom…

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Feed Sack Bags, Feedsack Quilt, Grandmother Quilt, Homemade Things, Backyard Fence, Feedsack Fabric, Shabby Chic Cards, Feed Bags, Sunbonnet Sue

When I first started writing about feed sacks, I had a tiny stack of 12 of them and promised myself I wouldn’t get more. As a fellow fabric lover, I’m sure you know how well that went. Though my interest initially was about the culture and economics of the feed sack era, it wasn’t long before I was sucked in by the colors and tens of thousands of different patterns. What was once a tiny pile in my sewing room has grown to fill six shelves. And there’s no end in sight.

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1840 faberic | Tabatha Yeatts: The Opposite of Indifference Flour Sack Patterns, Household Necessities, Feedsack Quilt, Frugal Habits, Double Wedding Ring, Feedsack Fabric, Sunbonnet Sue, Double Wedding, Retro Fabric

Have you heard about feedsack and floursack fabric? Womenfolk.com explains, "Initially farm and food products were shipped in barrels. Between 1840 and 1890 cotton sacks gradually replaced barrels as food containers ... Women quickly discovered that these bags could be used as fabric for quilts and other needs." Tuscan Rose Feedsack ATCs Feedsack Dress National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Feedsack Patchwork Chook by Shula French Feedsack Footstool Links: * A feedsack quilt from…

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