Still Monkeying With It

Not really even sure when I started monkeying with these blocks. The pattern, though, was seen on page 86 in Fons & Porter's Love Of Quilting magazine ... May/June 2010 issue. The polka dot fabric was a Wal-Mart purchase made on one of our overnights in Bristol, TN on the way to see grandchild #1...or perhaps even grandchildren, by then. My intention was to make a single block just to try out the method, but I got a little carried away and then began having the concept of using a rainbow of colors for the points of the star. At last count I have eight blocks. If I go with the layout below, I could stop at this with the following star point colors : red, orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, turquoise, dark blue, and purple.

Each block uses:
one  3.5 " center sqaure    (A)  [monkey center]
four light 2" x 3.5" rectangles  (B) [*]
four light 2" squares  (C)  [corners]
eight dark 2" squares  (D) [star points]

* The stitch and flip method is used to make the points on the rectangle pieces. 

 Anyway... wanted to record this block here, as I tend to loose track of the origins of the projects in holding patterns. These poor monkeys were lost for a few months because of a dash to stash the stash house 
decluttering episode last year.

Hope your monkeys are keeping you in stitches...or vice versa.

Notes on first run of block...from a sewing sleepover, in which the block is identified as either "Ohio Star" or "Variable Star".

Just had an idea for a center square...make one more Ohio Star and use eight colors for the points!