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Let’s do something completely different for our Quilters Quips and Tips today and share a little bit of frivolity.

Have you ever been the subject of an April Fool’s Day prank?  Have you ever pulled a prank on one of your unsuspecting friends?  Well, you are not alone.  Submit a comment, and let us know of your dastardly deeds or share your embarrassing moments.

Do you wonder all the whole idea started? Well, there are many theories.  Many of them have to do with changes to the calendar.  Here is just one of the theories; in a Gentlemen’s Magazine from April 1766 a correspondent wrote,

“The strange custom prevalent throughout this kingdom, of people making fools of one another upon the first of April, arose from the year formerly beginning, as to some purpose, and in some respects, on the twenty-fifth of March, which was supposed to be the incarnation of our Lord; it being customary with the Romans, as well as with us, to hold a festival, attended by an octave, at the commencement of the new year—which festival lasted for eight days, whereof the first and last were the principal; therefore the first of April is the octave of the twenty-fifth of March, and, consequently, the close or ending of the feast, which was both the festival of the Annunciation and the beginning of the new year.”

That all makes sense, right?  If you’d like to see a few more thoughts on how April Fool’s came about, click here.

If you’d like to see a list of the Top 100 April Fool’s Day Hoaxes of All Time, click here