In the words of Mr. T, “I pity the fool.”

Well, I would pity him if the joke had been not to release block seven on April Fools Day. But it was released and aptly named.

The All Fool’s Day Square by Carolyn Christmas on Pink Mambo was a welcome diversion to would be pranksters on the first of April.

I am partial to center-out squares, and this one did not disappoint. It looks simple, but still introduced me to new techniques that I thought might give Beginner Rah-Rah a hard time. Not so. She threw the picture of her square over to me like it was no big deal—made in the shade. I think I might have to give her a new moniker as she may just be graduating from the beginner title.

Here was her take on the square:

Rah-Rah’s perspective: The All Fool’s Day Square taught me a new stitch: the Hdc (half double crochet). After looking at the written instruction in the beginner’s book, I turned to YouTube to watch a short tutorial on how to do a half double crochet. It appeared to be painless, and it was. Secondly, I watched the tutorial in the Moogly blog about wet blocking. If I have soakedthe square completely, I would have been doing it correctly.

The outcome is a slightly off All Fool’s Day Square. If I could change things with this square, I would check my count in the beginning. Then I would make sure my shells were placed correctly. I would also change one color that I used and work tighter stitches. I thought I was doing better. It turns out this one came out loose.

My ultimate success with this block is that I only frogged once, and it was only one side of the square at the end. I am thinking about making it a second time. I will let you know if I do.

This was the first week of the 2021 Moogly CAL that I was able to complete the square on the day it was released. I think I might have even frogged more than Robin did with a misread instruction after one of the popcorn rows.

The four petal corners are worked in separate pieces, but the following row seamlessly brought them all together. It was a wonderful square. There are so many different color combinations that can be used to change the look of each square.

In our last post, I stated that color placement wasn’t a big deal, but early on in this square I thought I had it all wrong. The bright orange keeps throwing me for a loop. I am quite happy with the end result though.

Check out our previous posts to learn more about this project here, here, here, here, and here. And make sure to check out Moogly blog and see all of her great projects in addition to the Moogly CAL.