Feed Sack Project Ideas

Clothing Items

Manufacturers begin to realize that they could make their feed sacks out of attractive material with the hopes that they would sell more to the farmer whose wife wanted the pretty fabric to create a dress. Feed sacks can still be used to create clothing items. Use vintage or modern feed sack material to create blouses, dresses and men's shirts. Use a standard clothing pattern to create the clothing item using feed sack material. Cotton feed sacks are best for clothing projects, but burlap sacks can be used to create a particularly rustic look.

Create reusable shopping bags or travel totes. Cut and sew feed sacks into a sack and use a pretty ribbon as a handle. The sacks can be used to take groceries home from the grocery store or as a purse or travel tote to carry personal objects. Making totes and bags out of feed sacks is good for the environment because not only are you repurposing the feed sack, but by creating a bag or tote of it, you are not using environmentally harmful plastic sacks from the grocery store.

For a rustic look, use burlap to upholster furniture or as a wall hanging. For a boys room, take a rectangle piece of burlap approximately 24 by 48 inches. Draw the shape of a car with a piece of chalk. Use some colorful yarn and a needle with a large eye and weave yarn on your chalk line to create a wall hanging. You could also write and cut out a boy's name from burlap feed sack material. Mount the name on a piece of plywood or foam board and surround it with a picture frame. Create a feminine version of this project by cutting a girl's name out of patterned feed sack material.

Feed sacks can be used to create trendy looking gift wrap. Use paper or fabric feed sacks to create natural looking gift wrap. Embellish wrapped packages with natural items such as dried flowers and satin ribbons. You can also use feed sacks to create small doll items such as doll clothes and rugs. Feed sacks also make good kitchen towels.