Take, for example, Selina Sanders, who makes custom tops out of vintage tea towels, or 3 Women, which creates pants and tops out of feed sack bags and tablecloths.

Feed Sacks: A Colourful History of a Frugal Fabric Linzee Kull McCray. Uppercase, $37 trade paper (544p) ISBN 978-1-927987-03-2 ...

Historian Michael Zahs joins Charity Nebbe at the Kalona Historical Society to talk about his latest exhibit on the stories behind 20th century feed sacks and quilts. Plus, Timothy LeDuc of Cedar ...

Feed sacks, which also encompass flour and sugar sacks, are soft and yield about 1-1/4 yd. of usable fabric for quilting and other sewing projects. Aired: 12/16/13 Rating: TV-G ...

Roy Exum: My Feed-Sack Quilt. Wednesday, December 30, 2015; ... Ellen sent me a gorgeous quilt that is probably an antique yet in the way we “cure” a Lodge cast-iron skillet, ...

As collectibles, these bags may qualify for a gold star. They are more than just chicken feed, garnering up to $100 or more on eBay. Feed sacks that had a short life span, such as those that were ...

In what one milling company called “A Bag of Tricks,” feed, flour and sugar sacks during the Great Depression and World War II eras provided a frugal option for fabric. “Thrift Style,” a ...

From June 25 through Dec. 15, 2019 visitors will have the opportunity to see portions of this huge collection of printed cotton sacks in the exhibition, "Cotton &Thrift: Feed Sacks and the Fabric ...

With feed sacks and flour bags, farm women took thriftiness to new heights of creativity, transforming the humble bags into dresses, underwear, towels, curtains, quilts, and other household ...

In what one milling company called “A Bag of Tricks,” feed, flour and sugar sacks during the Great Depression and World War II eras provided a frugal option for fabric. “Thrift Style,” a ...

My mother taught me how to sew when I was 10 years old. I wanted something fun and creative to fill my summer days. So, I learned how to thread needles and loop crochet hooks. Since then, fabric ...

Q: You’ve previously talked about the four types of quilts currently in the Mingei’s collection (child/doll, charm, early, and feed sack) and described them as child/doll quilts being scaled ...