Check to see if there is a name or date sewn into the quilt. Ask your parents or grand parents for information about the person who made the quilt. Try writing a story about the quilt. Your family can create their own quilt out of paper. Have each person draw a picture about something that is special to him or her.
Sheep shearing is done to remove the year's growth of wool.
It is done in the spring when the weather gets warmer and after the mother sheep or ewes have had their spring lambs. The wool is sheared or cut from the sheep in one big piece called a fleece . You can think of it like removing your winter coat. The sheep shearer would have shorn the sheep by hand in the days before electricity. Today, electric cutters are used much like a man uses an electric razor.