Please leave your Progress reports on the relevant post. Each month’s challenge is listed below. I have closed comments on this page because it was getting too large to load.

The Challenge for January

The Challenge for February

The Challenge for March

The Challenge for April

The Challenge for May

The Challenge for June

The Challenge for July

The Challenge for August

The Challenge for September

The Challenge for October 

The Challenge for November and the page to leave your progress reports

Guidelines

This challenge grew out of the Take a stitch Tuesday challenge run in 2007. “Take it Further” aims to apply textile technique skills to design. The challenge will run all year in 2008.

The Challenge

On the 1st of each month I will post a concept or design theme. The challenge is to take the idea, develop it and push it towards a resolved design during that month. In other words you interpret the idea and apply it to fiber or paper.

Every month there will be two options.

The second option will be a colour scheme or a design element like a shape, to develop into a resolved design. This means that if you don’t like the concept you can work the colour scheme or if you don’t like the colour scheme you can work with the concept. Or you can work with both.

The actual project you design can be any thing, in any medium or format you choose. It can be a crazy quilt block, a postcard, a journal quilt, a piece of embroidery, a sampler, a fabric book page or whatever sparks your imagination. It can also be visual journal work. In other words pages spreads of designs worked in a visual journal will be seen as a valid entry and included as one of the formats acceptable for the challenge.

Blog or flick your response

What ever you choose to do, blog the development of the idea through the month (preferably weekly) and leave a comment on the appropriate post (listed above) with your blog address so that people can visit your site and see what you have done. The flickr group for the Take it Further Design Challenge is here.

If you don’t have a blog or flickr account

If you don’t yet have a site to post images to you will need to set up one. If you do not have a blog you will need at least a flickr account or somewhere to have your images on the web. If you don’t have one go to http://flickr.com. They are free and easy to use and for all those flickr folks a flickr group is established called Take it Further Design Challenge

For a free blog service try http://wordpress.com. It is free and relatively easy to set up with good help files.

Link Back

Please help spread the word, blog about the challenge with a link here so people can find it.