Feedsack Fabrics - Self Striping Sock Yarn
Feedsack Fabrics - Self Striping Sock Yarn
Feedsack Fabrics - Self Striping Sock Yarn
Feedsack Fabrics - Self Striping Sock Yarn

Feedsack Fabrics - Self Striping Sock Yarn

Regular price
$34.00
Sale price
$34.00

My grandmother gave me a quilt that her grandmother made from scraps of clothing in the 1930s. It is such a destinct pallete in quilting fabrics, and one that seems never to have gone out of quilt shops.

I don't think my great-great grandma got her fabrics from feedsacks, but it is so satisfying and romantic to think of all the chicken feed, or big sacks of flour that were packaged in attractive fabrics, specifically so they would be reused. (There is a lot written about the history of these fabrics online. Here's an article to get you started if you'd like to read more!)

Thick and thin stripes in red, yellow, green, lavender, and blue. Inspired by 1930s fabrics used by country sewers.

25g minis are available with the default color being red. Other colors are available upon request. Just a leave a note in your cart with which color you'd like. Please use this listing to add 25g skeins.

Would you like your yarn cranked into a sock tube so you just have to add heels, toes and cuffs? Check out information on our cranking service! 

CORRIEDALE SOCK
Fingering weight, 3 ply
75% Superwash Corriedale/25% Nylon
4 ounces/115 grams
434 yards 

TARGHEE SPORT
Sport weight, 4 ply
90% Superwash Targhee/10% Nylon
4 ounces/115 grams
350 yards
Made in the USA 

Yarn is dyed and heat set with professional acid dyes. All effort is made to exhaust the dyes, but some color bleeding may occur on initial washings. Cold water is recommended. Multiple skeins are available under this listing and, due to the nature of hand dying, colors may vary slightly from the yarn pictured.