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1977, Helen Scott from Galvao, Illinois began to collect old bags of feed bags, flour bags, sugar bags and other fabric bags. Her favorite place of origin is near her home, but she has bags from all over the country. Today, her collection includes about 200 bags. She collects potatoes, walnuts, cottonseed, chicken feed, corn seeds and many other products. If possible, she will keep a bag in its original state and get the same embroidery.
As an avid collector, Helen likes to attend the auction in the yard. She bought her first old woman, Dobolyi's oatmeal bag, and hid some rubbish at the auction.
"I hate to leave dirty things lying around," she explained, but she wanted to keep the old bags.
She was afraid that the color would fade after washing, so she embroidered the design idea. Helen learned embroidery when she was a child. )
"I'm not satisfied with my job," she said apologetically. "After my work has been greatly improved, I will do all these bags."
Helen's original goal was to embroider 100 bags, but now she has embroidered more than 150 bags. She chose a special package, and her100th all-American flour package depicts North America and South America. She likes to choose seasonal designs for embroidery: holly flour at Christmas, chicken feed prepared in advance at New Year (decorated with clocks), and clover seed packaging bags on St. Patrick's Day.
Because she finished her100th bag, she has gradually overcome more difficult designs, but in recent years, her eye problems have slowed down.
Helen marked the information when she got it, when she started embroidery and when she finished the old bag.
Usually, if the bag is dirty, she will wash it with cold water before starting sewing. After the embroidery was finished, she washed and put the iron in her pocket.
Sometimes the design fades and Helen can't recognize the original color. She wrote an article about the company and received some positive responses, but of course, many people have closed down. Then, her only hope is to find the same set meal under better conditions.
One year, she embroidered 15 bags, and the next year, a bag was designed for 9 months. This special bag contains bread flour, but it was always used as a sandbag when the Mississippi River was flooded. On the back of the printed matter is a foreign language that Helen can't understand.
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