July Meeting

Our July meeting was last night. We had a good attendance and we had a fascinating program on feedsack material and other staples of 1930s textile culture. 


Minutes:
July Meeting-

 Secretary's report-

Treasurer's report-  $xxx.xx

Committee reports: 

Block of the Month -

Website - 

Community service - 

Old Business: Janet H. of the Braymer Crazy Quilters has proposed making fabric ribbons to give out as awards for second and third place winners in the quilt show. Margie brought some that she had won in this year's Braymer quilt show, and the ribbons are gorgeous. We found that we have shortage of first place ribbons that were ordered, so we consolidated the apparel category with accessories so we wouldn't have to either make or order another first place ribbon. We reviewed the information that the quilt show is Sept. 24. 10am-4pm. Registration Friday 3-7. Dixie F. volunteered to machine embroidery second and third place ribbons centers.

New Business: Next month's meeting will be a ribbon-making workshop. 

Supplies needed ; 

Sewing Machine and basic sewing supplies

Ribbon materials will be supplied by the guild.

Membership issue- ideas for expanding membership tossed around.

Show and tell; Margie C. and Romme D. 

Program; Carolyn P. gave a wonderful presentation on feedsack materials and showed part of her feedsack collection. I myself had never realized that there were not only printed fabrics wrapping sacks of chicken feed in the Depression era, but there were patterns for aprons and cross-stitch embroidery stamped onto the backs of them. It seemed that the mill in those years was the equivalent of today's Jo-Ann's. It was also interesting to find that the original idea for this frugal practice had come from a Kansas City company, and had originated in the '20s and continued to some degree until the early '60s, though the use of the feedsack for fabric is generally thought of as a staple of the hard times in the '30s and the wartime years of saving and conserving in the early-mid '40s. When times improved in the late '40s and the '50s, women were tired of being conservative and having their quilts and clothes made of feedsacks, and more luxurious fabrics like silks became popular, marking the end of the feedsack's popularity. That may be the reason now why we see plastics feedsacks littering the roadsides; because they are just that now, plastic wrapping for animal feed, of no further use after the feed is emptied into the trough. 

 

 

 

 

 

 Margie's wall hanging made for her son.

 Romme's Sunbonnet Sue quilt, made for a friend on the Pacific Coast.

 A few of the books on feedsacks that Carolyn brought with her to accompany her presentation (though I suspect she could have written one of these books herself).