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Posted by Denise in NH on August 15, 2008, 9:52 am
My s-i-l in Blue Earth, MN just sent me an assortment of flour sack
material that she was given from the estate of an elderly friend who
recently passed away. There are florals, stripes and plaids.
It's a fairly coarse woven material that I don't think would feel
appropriate in a quilt. So what did they use the material for? Towels,
curtains, etc.?
Have any of you made anything cute with flour sacks? I'd like to make
something to send back to my s-i-l, who doesn't sew. Each piece is
approx. 36"x46".
Denise
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Posted by Mary on August 15, 2008, 10:39 am
Flour sacks were used for all sorts of home sewing projects. My
mother told me that when she was young (she was born 1924), her mother
gave them away to people who were having a much more difficult time.
And most of those flour sacks seemed to wind up in clothing for the
children, or sometimes in work shirts for the men. People would swap
the bags so they had enough cloth in a pattern for a complete shirt or
dress. Apparently, some of the garments were very well made and
attractive, while others were just ugly. Since most flour sold then
was in cloth flour sacks, it seems that everybody recognized who was
dressed in flour sacks and who was not, and some of the children were
teased at school. My mother and her brothers were absolutely
forbidden to make fun of anybody. Much of their clothing was home
made, too, but Grandma was able to purchase new cloth. As I
understand it, nobody ever threw a flour sack away!
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Posted by Roberta on August 15, 2008, 1:33 pm
Lots of them did end up in quilts. I have a Dresden Plate my
Great-grandma made with some flour sack pieces, mixed with "normal"
cloth.
Roberta in D
On Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:52:00 -0400, DeniseJG@webtv.net (Denise in NH)
wrote:
>My s-i-l in Blue Earth, MN just sent me an assortment of flour sack
>material that she was given from the estate of an elderly friend who
>recently passed away. There are florals, stripes and plaids.
>
>It's a fairly coarse woven material that I don't think would feel
>appropriate in a quilt. So what did they use the material for? Towels,
>curtains, etc.?
>
>Have any of you made anything cute with flour sacks? I'd like to make
>something to send back to my s-i-l, who doesn't sew. Each piece is
>approx. 36"x46".
>
>Denise
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Posted by Julia in MN on August 15, 2008, 8:39 pm
Denise in NH wrote:
> My s-i-l in Blue Earth, MN just sent me an assortment of flour sack
> material that she was given from the estate of an elderly friend who
> recently passed away. There are florals, stripes and plaids.
>
> It's a fairly coarse woven material that I don't think would feel
> appropriate in a quilt. So what did they use the material for? Towels,
> curtains, etc.?
>
> Have any of you made anything cute with flour sacks? I'd like to make
> something to send back to my s-i-l, who doesn't sew. Each piece is
> approx. 36"x46".
>
> Denise
>
The flour/feed sacks were used for just about everything. The coarser
ones are more likely to be from animal feed than from flour. Flour sacks
were usually a finer weave, though probably somewhat coarser than our
nice LQS fabric. I had dresses, aprons, pajamas, etc. from feed sacks
when I was growing up. I remember going to the feed store with my dad to
pick out the prettiest sacks and to make sure he got several alike, so
we'd end up with more yardage. I would not hesitate to use them in a
quilt, though would use either use only printed sacks or combine them
with 30's repros. Both could be combined with white muslin or another
solid color. I bought a quilt top at an auction several years ago. Many
of the fabrics in it were flour or feed sacks. I hand quilted it; it was
a lot of fun to quilt because of the wonderful variety in the fabrics.
Julia in MN
Julia in MN
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Posted by steve on August 15, 2008, 11:31 pm
I'm not sure if anyone out there still sells flour in cloth flour sacks, but
about 15 years ago when I traveled from the remote Eskimo village I was
living in to another for a school trip, we went to the local village "store"
to get a few snacks. I was very surprised to see that their 25 lb bags of
flour were in cloth flour sacks. There was no brand on the sacks if I
remember correctly, since I did look, because I wanted to know who still
sold it that way. Would be really curious to know.
Steven
Alaska
My s-i-l in Blue Earth, MN just sent me an assortment of flour sack
material that she was given from the estate of an elderly friend who
recently passed away. There are florals, stripes and plaids.
It's a fairly coarse woven material that I don't think would feel
appropriate in a quilt. So what did they use the material for? Towels,
curtains, etc.?
Have any of you made anything cute with flour sacks? I'd like to make
something to send back to my s-i-l, who doesn't sew. Each piece is
approx. 36"x46".
Denise
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