Senior Citizens: DO you remember yrs & yrs ago, particularly if you lived in the country the flowered sacks?

Question

. flour, chicken feed, grass seed,etc came in , good size, and we couldn't wait to get more to accumulate enough for mom to make a skirt, dress, for us w/her old singer treadle sewing machine?

Answer 1

my mom talks about her mom making clothes from flour sacks..I guess it was in the forties.  and yes my grandmother still uses the sewing machine with the foot thing.