Googy's Nine Patch Quilt and the wool shed......

No 8/9 quilts that needed to be bound....this one was finished weeks ago....I finally snapped these pics a few days ago while doing some sheep work at the woolshed.........then just had to find the time to write the post..............

needed a sunny day as it is dull enough in there.......

Mr Chooky thinks I have completely lost the plot and why would i take a clean quilt to a dusty greezy (lanolin) woolshed........I did tell him its a dark quilt and it does need to be washed so all good...........

the woolshed is old and full of old worn timber.........

Anyway onto the quilt...........this was made from blocks in Googy Girls Traditional Nine Patch Swap in 2013........the only person besides myself who is still blogging that was part of this swap is Fiona @ Bubz Rugz

Quilted by Betty back in 2020 I found a post here......which also told me who quilted Friendship Kisses Quilt so I updated that post too......you can see a little bit of the baptist fan quilt design here......

During shearing........that pile at the bottom of the pic is the the loose bits of wool that comes off when shearing........it all ends up in a bale...........

Anyway the quilt top went together when I was still highly motivated after the crazy Christmas sewing blitz of 2017..........so early 2018 when I was doing my 10mins a day it happened..........

There's a good summary of the quilt here when I got to the top stage.......

I do love finding the posts about my quilts to pull it together...........

The press keeps compressing the wool until the bale is full.......once you get so much in it pins go in to help hold it down also until it is full enough......

Well wool goes into the wool press so I thought my quilt could here here also........can't remember if this one has wool batting or not..........you need these presses to compact the wool into the bales......you can see a bale full of wool in the first photo......at the wool stores they have bigger ones that compacts 3 of these bales into one.....better for transporting to other countries for processing.........a wool bale must weigh between a certain weight.......140 and 200kg.....if they go over 204kg you need to pull some wool out.......otherwise you will get in trouble at the wool store......

I was trying to find different spots to take the pics in the woolshed........these are wool bins........so when you have several different grades/lines of wool and you have one press you can put the piles in here until you have enough to press a full bale.......

the floors are grated where the sheep are held so when they wee and poo it falls thru the gaps.........sheep poo is about a pea size..........

if you can be bothered to get under the shed and pull some out it is great for the gardens..........we did collect some years ago but its not my favourite job............

the head gear in the background that powers the shearers hand pieces............

And since we have been shearing lambs this week here are the shearers..........unfortunately one day we didn't have a roustabout so I had to roustabout........it was a long day.........

in our shed the roustabout pens up the sheep, picks up the fleeces (maybe I picked up 1/3rd I was protesting a bit Mr Chooky had to pick them up), sweeps the floor in between each sheep they shear, odd jobs, helps on the wool table sometimes........opps missed a pic of that........you can just see it in the background to the right.........its big and the fleece gets thrown on that to get skirted........skirting any stained/dirty bits of the fleece around the edges pulling them off at this stage.......once the fleece is right then the wool classer classes what line it will go in............That's Mr Chooky in our case but a lot of sheds have a wool classer come in to do that also.....you need to do a course to get that qualification and it needs to be renewed every few years............I don't love the wool table......actually I don't love the woolshed.......I like to flit thru and do a little job or two......have a yarn and maybe pen up and get out of there.......mustering is my preferred shearing job...............

anyway that's it............onto the quilt details........

Name Googy's Nine Patch Quilt

Size 77in x 77in

Started 2013-2022

Group quilt link here to those who participated

Quilted by Betty

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only one more quilt to share from the 9 originals....I have the pics just need to write the post.........and I need to find an extra to help hold up one of the new ones as it's a pretty big quilt......Mr Chooky's arms are not long enough......

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There are some takers for the Chookshed Birthday Party so that's great.......the thought of sewing all day Saturday is what's getting me thru all this sheep work...........got to go muster some sheep now......

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Catch you later......

Chookyblue.......