Coloradolady at http://coloradolady.blogspot.com is big on quilts. This feature today is to share one of my vintage quilts with her and all her VTT participates.
This quilt is all hand pieced and hand quilted. Made back during the depression days when people used feed and flour sacks for material. No store fabric then.
Trying to show more details on the sacks that were used.
16 comments:
Hi LV, I love the vintage quilt.The feed and flour sacks had pretty patterns. I love the blue sack with the plates and the pink sack with the children. This is very special LV, thanks for sharing it.
~Emily
The French Hutch
LV you know that I love quilts, and this one is a beauty.
Jocelyn @
http://justalittlesouthernhospitality.blogspot.com
I love the material on this beautiful old quilt...reminds me of the one's grandma had that her mama made...those were the most comfortable things ever :) Thanks for sharing...
Big hugs,
Queenie
What a beautiful quilt! I love those reproduction fabrics, but the real ones are even better. What a wonderful treasure!
Love that old quilt, LV.... People these days pay BIG MONEY to get that feed sack material.... ha
Hugs,
Betsy
Well, those are the prettiest feed sacks i have ever seen! I didn't know they looked like this, I thought they were all burlap!
I wonder if they made the feed sacks with this after use in mind? Lovely prints on this!
Pretty quilt. You must be at your limit!
I have tea towels, pillowcases and quilts out of Flour Sacks...have never seen any with beautiful prints like this!
Beautiful quilt!! They made such pretty sacks back then who need store fabric!?
*hugs*Deb
This is so neat! I bet the women who stitched these together never realized they'd be making a part of history. And how well it is held up for all those years!
I love this! We sure were thinking the same thing this week. It's hard to imagine that such pretty prints actually held flour. So precious and full of good memories. Thanks for sharing this jewel.
What a great vintage quilt! Love the fabrics. How special you have it!
Ruth
Any quilt with red is a stupendous quilt!
WHERE RED ABIDES
A day filled with scarlet, they say,
Can make the sad heart skip and play;
For where red abides,
A little bird hides
And sings every worry away.
© 2011 by Magical Mystical Teacher
Plump, Ripe Persimmon
HV, Love the quilt. Brings back memories. I was post depression but I remember my Mom making dresses for me from flour sacks. She would purchase the same pattern until she had enough fabric for a dress. Wow, memories. Hugs, Ginger
Vintage feedsack quilts are among my favorites. I love their soft texture and softer colors.
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