Monkey Business BOM – Block #10
It is October already, and we are going into the last quarter of the year and this year’s Monkey Business BOM. While I am not a big fan of winter, I am not too unhappy that this super hot and dry summer is over and I don’t have to spend so much time watering my vegetables anymore. Next year it will be drip irrigation for sure! I am still harvesting my second crop of broccoli, it was so worth the effort to install the cover for the brassicas. And my cherry tomatoes are still going strong, I can’t take off new suckers as fast as they are regrowing. I have decided to pull them this weekend though. I topped all tomato plants in mid-August, and the remaining green ones will ripen indoors. I just want to clean up as much as possible before the weather gets really ugly.
Our monkey friends are still on summer vacation and don’t have to worry about bad weather. I was trying to create a surfing monkey but all my attempts looked too much like the snowboarding penguin from last year’s Penguin Promenade. Then I realized that there is another kind of surfing, and now our little monkey is happily windsurfing across the water. Please make sure to double check that the pattern prints at 100% size, otherwise the design will be cut off in the middle of the block. (Ask me how I know… I have been printing my placement guides for years with the same settings, and I don’t always check, and Adobe Reader decided to switch from “Actual Size” to one of the other options, and I didn’t notice until I couldn’t make the block fit.) As always, the pattern will be available for free download until the end of the month and move to the pattern store in November.
EDIT: The October block has been moved to the pattern store and is now available for purchase if you missed the free download.
EDIT: Der Oktober-Block ist nun auch auf deutsch und in metrischen Maßen im Pattern Store verfügbar.
CATEGORIES: Block/Pattern of the Month
TAGS: Appliqué, Quilt
5 responses to “Monkey Business BOM – Block #10”
Leave a Reply to Diane H Cancel reply
Thank you so much. As always, it is just adorable. I love those rich looking fabrics that you used.
Thank you for another fun block. Love the sail fabrics.
What a great solution to the surfing problem! Thank you for another great monkey. I hope you are doing well.
Cute wind-surfing monkey. Thank you.
Thank you. Another wonderful block