Feedsack Quilt

At first sight this looks like a very plain, lightweight quilt or coverlet, for a child's truckle bed -
(don't forget, you can click on the photos to enlarge them!)

But when held up to the light or when wet you can see -

I love the sense of humour this frugal quilt maker had - she's sewn together a couple of CHICK STARTER GROWING MASH feedsacks to make a very simple bed cover for her little one. The cotton is strong but soft to the touch and you can just see the manufacturers logo of a hen sitting on her nest in a faint outline and the ingredients listed. The photos where the quilt is being held up was taken when I washed the quilt and it was still wet as the print showed up better then. I'm holding it up in front of a mirror in the photo otherwise the print was in reverse.

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You can see from the photo above that the maker had to make a very neat darn on the feedsack, likely to have been done before she made the quilt. I hope it was partly with a sense of humour that she picked this feedsack and that she wasn't desperately poor, this was likely to have been made around the Great Depression Years period. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression