It's Feed Sacks Friday! And I have good news: the reprint is re-printed!
Today, it begins the final stage of production: getting dressed. Applying the dust jackets and belly bands is a completely manual process, so that will take a bit of time. Yesterday, I sent an address verification email to everyone who has preordered.
If you've been intrigued by this book, purchase it before Tuesday, June 24, and you'll get it from the printer directly. Purchases made after that date will be dispatched from my fulfillment partner sometime in July.
Written by Linzee Kull McCray and at 544 pages, it lives up to being an encyclopedic sourcebook with 850 vintage fabric swatches.
If you're in Decorah, Iowa, next weekend, Linzee, along with Rebecca Blumhagen, who is producing a film about feed sacks, will be sharing stories at this event:
If you're still wondering, "What's a feed sack?"
Feed sacks were cleverly marketed, decorative and functional bags and sacks for farm animal feed, as well as flour and sugar. You could purchase the feed for your farm animals or flour for your pantry, and then repurpose the sack into clothing, quilts and crafts.
Take a look inside the book; I have previews on my website.
From upcycling, sewing, quilting, to designing surface patterns or typographic compositions, this book lives up to the series' title. It truly is an Encyclopedia of Inspiration.
Like all books in my Encyclopedia, the dust jacket can be refolded to highlight four different designs.
Already have this book? Thank you so much! If you purchased the Martingale copy that didn't include the dust jacket, I have a limited quantity of just dust covers and belly bands, which I will list in my shop in July. You can also download and print your own here.
Here are some summer feed sack fashions:
Here's my sweet little Finley when the book was released in 2016. The vintage quilt is feed sacks, the snowball motif behind him is made from dress prints, and the two dolls were cut and sewn from preprinted designs on commercial feed sacks.
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