I recently acquired a very large old cotton sack. My dad, who picked cotton as a child, said that this sack would probably have been used to tote 75 to 100 pounds of cotton. Wow! How do you like it as a table runner?
I don't know if folks ironed their cotton sacks in the good ole days, but, I think mine will meet an iron pretty soon.
After it's ironed, I'll double it up in the center of the table. Place settings won't sit square if I leave it as is, huh? Here. I straightened the picture out. This is better, isn't it Troy? Sorry for the dizzy spell!
Ok...thanks for the break. This is me getting back to work. *smile*
Happy Wednesday!
~Mindy
What a GREAT idea. My parents grew up picking cotton and I bet my mother would love this...I am going to steal your idea....now I just have to find one. Your table is going to look great.
ReplyDeleteOh my gosh - I'm LUVIN' IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, THAT is kick booty! LOL I like the big vase in the corner too!!!
ReplyDeleteYou're rockin' it in the Christmas department!!!
;-) Robelyn
Great idea! My Mom was a cotton picker too! In fact, when I was a little girl, my mattress was made from cotton that my grandpa had hand picked for it. That was a comfy mattress! Wish I still had it! Your house is looking good! Just when you get it looking just right...its time to put it up! :)
ReplyDeleteThe casters for my table are suppose to be delivered today! Yippee!
MALisa
I love it too! Such a cute idea.
ReplyDeleteI hear stories from my dad about picking cotton.
So thankful that is something I never had to do.
My grandmother used to tell stories too about picking cotton, about how when my uncle was a baby she'd dress him him a gown and leave him in the house with the end of his gown under the foot of the bed (so he couldn't wander around). Can you imagine?!?!? She said back then she didn't have a choice.
Grandma is the only cotton picker left in my family! I like the cotton sack as a table runner! Very nice, baby!
ReplyDeleteI like your table. I would love to have a cotton sack to go with my Black Americana stuff. No one in my immediate family has ever picked cotton or anything else. I can't fault them for that.lol. I love your table very purty!!
ReplyDeleteNice!
ReplyDeleteLove it, how about bunching it up towards the center. No ironing needed :)
ReplyDeleteMargo
i like .. also really really really like that candelabra ... but your last pic made my head hurt .. my brain tried to twist around .. and i think it jostled something loose inside there .. i think it would feel better if you sent me that candelabra .. yeah ..
ReplyDeletetroy
p.s. ok .. i think i am as old as your dad, cause i remember picking cotton, picking beans, hoeing corn and hauling hay ..do they haul hay anymore - i mean with those big bales that take fork lifts ..
ReplyDeleteanyway ..
troy
It's gorgeous, Mindy!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'll wrestle Troy for the candelabra! I'm pretty sure I can take him, we're about the same size! ;-)
Anne
Well, would you look at all the cotton pickin' kids out here? Wow!
ReplyDeleteMargo, I just went and tried the bunching thing...but, the fabric is too thick to stay bunched.
Troy, my dad was born in the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and thirty three. I think he has quite a few years on you. But, it sounds like you were raised in the country, as was he.
Troy and Anne. Would it bother you if I told you I paid $4 for it at a garage sale? Uh huh. It's staying on my table, thank you very much. Ha! But, I'd pay $5 to watch y'all fight over something! *smile* ~Mindy
Love the cotton sack. Maybe you can just throw it in the dryer with a wet washcloth. Sometimes it works to get most of the wrinkles out.
ReplyDelete-FringeGirl
I like it all wrinkledy...Nice candleabra... yaw can just bring that on to Shiloh...
ReplyDeleteLee
Now wait one cotton pickin' minute...what do you mean you're settings won't sit square? I don't follow. I'm sure when the sacks were remade into clothes, they got ironed...but probably not before. I guess I'm in the Cotton Club too...my daddy dropped out of school in the 8th grade to pull cotton to help out with finances at home. I grew up in McKinney where cotton was the cash cow!
ReplyDeleteDebbie
Debbie, see where the edge of the sack hits? Bout right where a plate would sit. So, it would sit lopsided if I were to place a plate there. Follow now?
ReplyDeleteOh, I liked Margo's idea of bunching it up... and I'd do just about anything NOT to iron...how about scrunching it out of the way of the plates on the side? Are you back from trying? Was it still too thick? I once watched Martha Stewart iron in folds on a tablecloth. Anyways, it is very wonderful. You asked about the crown on my site, my sister believes she picked it up at Hobby Lobby. Thanks so much for commenting, I'm just starting the blogging thing And it is fun. Lezlee
ReplyDeleteI'm definitely seeing the progression now. That granite works beautifully over that cotton. So much better...
ReplyDeleteHey, Happy Holidays, just in case I'm not back this way in time.
ReplyDeletexo
erin