Embroidered Vintage Sacks Gifted By Artist

This post is a combination In Memory of Liss (MIL) plus sharing her fabric artistry. I haven't shared her embroidery work before. This collection was gifted to me before she died in February of 2007. Liss was an artist of many talents. Fabric Art was dear to her heart as was painting. In her 50's Liss completed a Bachelor of Arts (in Art), a life long dream.

Liss was a collector of fabric and notions, table covers, lace, all sewing and needlework fixings. She combined them in many wonderful ways. 

She hand embroidered each sugar, rice and flour sack shown here and added loop hangers so they could be displayed.

I have not visited this collection for several years. Liss worked on these sacks in the 1980's and early 1990's and wanted to have them displayed in a gallery. Her dream was not realized.

Each stitch of embroidery floss on the Grain, Sugar and Rice printed and logo marked sacks is true to the original pattern as are the colours chosen.

Having fallen in love with grain sack stripes I was thrilled to find the embroidered Loblaw grain sack repurposed into a vintage towel roll for the kitchen.

If I wanted to I could hang these wonderfully embroidered grain and sugar sacks as curtains in my living room (no I didn't do that) but I did hang them so I could take photos. They are packed away again.

Thank you for visiting.

This is the header I made from these wonderful embroidered sacks.

PS: I will get these out of storage and take close-ups in a future post.

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