Sometimes it was hard to find enough material of the same pattern to make a dress. Mama often bought more feed than she needed for the week, so we could get the same pattern. More than likely, the next shipment would be completely different patterns. Often, new sacks were of the same pattern, but a different shade of color. One year, a bunch of the mothers got together and each bought certain solid colored sacks then put them all together to make four to five of the girls multi color dresses. I think they made the prettiest of all of the dresses that were made from feed sacks. The colors were soft green, blue, pink and yellow. For some reason, Lila and I did not get the shared multi colored dresses. The solid color sacks were harder to find. Mama knew exactly when the new shipments of feed came in, so she went to the feed store early that day for first choice. Most often Lila and I were with her so we got to choose the pattern we liked. Too many times, a sack had a small hole or snag in a place that would be hard to cut a pattern around. The feed sack material got prettier as time went on. Most of the time one would never know the material came from feed sacks. A closer observation might reveal the coarser weave. A favorite of mine was a large red plaid design on a white background that I wore when I was a freshman in High School. I made a sun suit out of blue and white feed sack material for Wayne, Jr's 1st birthday. 
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