Thursday 26 May 2022

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......
Keep the love of blogging alive
Catch you later......
Chookyblue.......

30 comments:

Gretchen Weaver said...

We had sheep on our farm when I was a child. I always enjoyed watching the sheep shearer shear the sheep. Of course my experience was nothing like your setup. I'm sure you slept good after all that. Your quilt is beautiful! The wool shed made a lovely background for the photos, happy stitching!

Jeanette said...

Great background for your beautiful quilt. I love 9-patch quilts. It's on my to do list to make another. :) Hugs.

Jackie said...

Wow, the quilt looks great against the backdrop of the wool shed.

Thanks so much for the tour of the wool shed and all that goes into the process.

God bless.

Lynda said...

Wonderful place to photograph your quilt - the quilt is really lovely. The photos are terrific!

Annelein said...

What a wonderful quilt and the speelsheid is just thé perfect place for the pictures. Love the way you exploitatie the proces off sheep shearing and how the wool is processing.

I also love to put the different blogstories together as a kind of journal. I hope the sheepjob has soon been done.

Lin said...

Love the quilt and what a perfect place for a photo shot - please tell Mr Chooky! What a fantastic place and lovely to learn all about it. How many sheep do you have? I love the colour (and rust) of the baler. Thanks Chooky, brilliant post. xx

Anorina @SameliasMum said...

Absolutely love this quilt, loved the photo shoot and location shots and loved learning about the shearing process. There's a man who comes to our local weekend markets and sells bags of sheep poo. You could have a gold mine sitting under your floor :)

kiwikid said...

Beautiful quilt and happy memories, great to learn about the shearing process. Great location for the photos too.

ButterZ said...

Beautiful quilt, but they had all their gear on.

Jenny said...

great photos and a good story

julieQ said...

Your quilt is beautiful. I remember shearing days...one day, a ewe lost a teat to the shearer...horrors!

Janice said...

Such a warm looking quilt. The woodshed is the perfect backdrop. My favourite photo is the one draped over the wool pens. When we were establishing our large garden out of town we used to go over to a mate’s place and get in under his shearing shed and fill the ute and trailer with well rotted sheep manure, making sure we got there just before shearing, not after……..the novelty wore off after a few years.

Carole @ From My Carolina Home said...

Enjoyed the lesson on shearing jobs, but what is mustering? Love the quilt.

Rose Marie said...

Gotta love a nine patch and yours is gorgeous! Thanks for the pics and the info about sheep shearing. Your quilt looked quite at home in the barn.

Maria said...

Another gorgeous quilt and great photos…

Chris said...

I do not miss having sheep on the farm. They used to wander freely around the yard and in my vegetable garden. We sold them off years ago. My Sweetie used to do the shearing and does not miss that one bit.
there is a new movie on netflix called the Perfect Pairing that is filled on a sheep station in the Numinbah Valley and they have footage of the sheering process. it's a love story about wine and sheep.

Fiona said...

Your 9 patch quilt worked out so gorgeous and great setting for the pictures. The swap was a great way to get a selection.
Hugz

loulee said...

A beautiful quilt and a very interesting read and look around the shearing shed. Tony's dad used to be a wool classer, he broke open the bales and classed them at the warehouse, then it went on to be washed and combed.

ellen said...

Didn't expect anything other from you - a beautiful quilt!

Wendy Caton Reed said...

What a glorious quilt! You just can't beat a simple 9=patch, but this one is especially wonderful in all those gorgeous prints. I love the wool shed. I can just smell all that yummy wool now. Delicious!

Carole said...

Thank you for the tour of the wool shed ... I love sheep! I've been toying with the idea of spinning my one yarn ... I keep telling myself "I do NOT need another hobby" LOL Your quilt is lovely. I do love a 9 patch. Cheers!

Nancy said...

Thank you for the tour of and details about your sheep shed and the work that happens there. I've been enamored of sheep since I learned to spin 40 or so years ago so this was a really interesting post. Though I love sheep I'm not sure I'd be interested in all the behind the scenes work that goes on to collect the wool.
Your quilt is beautiful and I think the wool shed was a wonderful place to photograph it.

Nancy said...

P.S. How many sheep do you have?

dutchcomfort said...

Love the photo's of the quilt in the sheep shed!!

Janet O. said...

Love the classic look of this quilt! And all the wool shed glam photos really show it off.
Thanks for the info on the wool shed. Never had a big wool operation on the farm here, so I was not aware of all that is involved. And our current sheep are the self-shedding kind, mostly raised for meat--which I don't eat.

Diane-crewe said...

Beautiful quilt .. looks wonderful in the setting of the shed x

Christine B said...

Lovely quilt and great photos! Christine xx

Susan said...

Love the quilt pics in the woolshed.

Enjoyed the "lesson" on shearing sheep - though most I sort of knew.

Denice Barker said...

Double good stuff, the quilt and the tour!

dq said...

Holy cow! YOu are really pumping out those finishes and creative photos!!! It is fun to see more of your life from those creative quit photos.