The lady who ran the neighborhood grocery wore feedsack dresses all the time with her comfort shoes. My mother used the sacks mostly for making her bib aprons and sunbonnets. As I recall, there were some very pretty patterns in those flour sacks. And one sack would make a little girls dress. I still find them now and then in antique shops. Most were made into dish towels. I made a fireboard once using the neighborhood grocery as one of the houses in my fireboard (Elsie's Store). You could see the potbellied stove thru the window, and I painted signs on the front of the store--one was a 'Camel's Cigarettes' sign. (The camel actually looked like a camel---instead of a humpback dog!!). Pat -----Original Message----- From: Lynn McKay <granny2Lynne@LORETTOTEL.NET> To: KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com <KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, September 18, 1999 7:41 AM Subject: [KYL&F] Re: [KENTUCKY-LEGENDS AND FOLKLORE] sunbonnets >Yes, yes, yes! I never had a "store-boughten" dress until I was in high >school. All my "sunday-go-to-meetin" clothes were made from the feed sacks. > >Just last year for Christmas, I made quilted maps of the states my family >members live in and used a pile of those feed sacks from my mothers' stash >for back ground and borders. She had over a dozen left that she had used >for table scarves, etc., right on up to 1997. > >And I remember the pinafores from very early in my life. > >Lynn >-----Original Message----- >From: Mbdiggin@aol.com <Mbdiggin@aol.com> >To: KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com ><KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com> >Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:19 PM >Subject: Re: [KENTUCKY-LEGENDS AND FOLKLORE] sunbonnets > > >>I remember the sunbonnets. Grandma was a great seamstress and sold for >>people other than family. She would make her own out of feed sack >material. >>Does anyone remember the chicken feed that came in pretty flowered feed >>sacks. I have worn many a dress made by my mother or grandma made from >them >>and they were very pretty. Most of the time she made me pinafores. Does >>anyone remember those? >>Mary >> > >

Well, I can't stand it!! You folks can kick this La Gal out if you wish. My dad had a dairy farm and the man who owned the feed store would call my grandma when a new feed shipment came in and she'd go to the store and pick out which patterns she wanted. She knew how many sacks it took to make a dress or pinnafore for me or a blouse or a dress for her or Mama. When the dresses were worn out we made quilts from them or the scraps from the dresses. In the summer time they (Gramma and her sisters) would piece the quilts and then quilt them in the winter time. When one of my great aunt's died, I got a trunk that had belonged to my Gramma. In it were 5 old quilt tops that had never been quilted. I am working now on the 4th one. They are wonderful. I really envy you folks who still have some of those old feedsacks. I'd love to have some. Love Ya'll! Jan At 10:18 AM 9/18/1999 -0400, Pat Oneal wrote: > The lady who ran the neighborhood grocery wore feedsack dresses all the >time with her comfort shoes. My mother used the sacks mostly for making her >bib aprons and sunbonnets. As I recall, there were some very pretty >patterns in those flour sacks. And one sack would make a little girls >dress. I still find them now and then in antique shops. Most were made >into dish towels. I made a fireboard once using the neighborhood grocery as >one of the houses in my fireboard (Elsie's Store). You could see the >potbellied stove thru the window, and I painted signs on the front of the >store--one was a 'Camel's Cigarettes' sign. (The camel actually looked like >a camel---instead of a humpback dog!!). Pat >-----Original Message----- >From: Lynn McKay <granny2Lynne@LORETTOTEL.NET> >To: KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com ><KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com> >Date: Saturday, September 18, 1999 7:41 AM >Subject: [KYL&F] Re: [KENTUCKY-LEGENDS AND FOLKLORE] sunbonnets > > >>Yes, yes, yes! I never had a "store-boughten" dress until I was in high >>school. All my "sunday-go-to-meetin" clothes were made from the feed >sacks. >> >>Just last year for Christmas, I made quilted maps of the states my family >>members live in and used a pile of those feed sacks from my mothers' stash >>for back ground and borders. She had over a dozen left that she had used >>for table scarves, etc., right on up to 1997. >> >>And I remember the pinafores from very early in my life. >> >>Lynn >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Mbdiggin@aol.com <Mbdiggin@aol.com> >>To: KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com >><KENTUCKY-LEGENDS-L@folklore.rootsweb.com> >>Date: Friday, September 17, 1999 10:19 PM >>Subject: Re: [KENTUCKY-LEGENDS AND FOLKLORE] sunbonnets >> >> >>>I remember the sunbonnets. Grandma was a great seamstress and sold for >>>people other than family. She would make her own out of feed sack >>material. >>>Does anyone remember the chicken feed that came in pretty flowered feed >>>sacks. I have worn many a dress made by my mother or grandma made from >>them >>>and they were very pretty. Most of the time she made me pinafores. Does >>>anyone remember those? >>>Mary >>> >> >> > > > >