My latest eBay feedsack find. Check out where it’s from! A little something from my home state of Tennessee brightening the studio.

Got another great package from my Granny Lou the other day … she has been collecting feedsacks since well before I was born.  She added a little more to my history of feedsack fabrics research that I have been working on and also sent a jar full of real pearl buttons …{tangent}… she made this great “house dress” for me way back when, and I still wear it every chance I get. So, continuing on the trend from yesterday with the discovery of reproduction feedsack fabrics and the day before with yellow … I found a yellow version of the fabric in my feedsack dress shown above, and then i found a yellow version of the one i used on my bird dog messenger bag. Both reproductions were from Baum Textile Mills/Windham Fabrics who now apparently produce all of these listed feedsack reproduction collections: V, c. 1930, Feedsack, II, and III c. 1930, so where’s IV?

Happy Feedsack Friday everyone, if you love vintage fabrics, go get some of these repoductions! Available here or maybe even at your local fabric store.

So, how do you teach your little ones about the alphabet? Purl Bee has an idea with fabric magnet letters. I’ve seen many a project to achieve this very same lesson in varying ways, but none that drew me in like this one because I spy a feedsack fabric here! and when I checked the list of fabrics they used, it turns out that maybe some companies are reproducing feedsack designs again? Need to investigate more, but I’m really excited. Funny they don’t mention the “N” being a feedsack pattern, but I have it in a pink/black/grey colorscheme! Another thing to investigate. Purl Bee is the online journal for Purl, an amazing place to get fabric, knitting and other crafty supplies.