The folks who know me through real life and my other, more personal blog know that the past six months have been kind of rough for me. I am feeling better and as you can see, I’ve got my weaving mojo back.

In September I was very excited to join a Flickr group project called Crafting 365, and it turned out that I just could not keep up with that. I’m a very OC type of person and when someone gives me a rule of a game or a project, I go all Monica Geller. Now that I’m on a roll again, I think that I’ve found a perfect project to help me keep my momentum going that is flexible and presents a couple of interesting prompts for a fiber design each month. It’s called the Take It Further Challenge, and I’ll begin it in February.

I really could say that my tapestry box project is part of the January project, and you know what? I think that I will, because I have often thought of John while weaving this box. He was such a cheerleader for my tapestry weaving and he would be delighted with this project.

The General Challenge from Sharon B:
“On the 1st of each month I will post key concept. 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.”

Then you blog or Flickr your progress and final result.

The January Challenge:
“The key concept for January is a feeling we have all had, the feeling of admiration for another. Ask yourself who do you look up to and admire? Why? What is it you admire about them?”

The colors for the second option can be found at the January Challenge page.

In a Minute Ago (the mother ship)
Take It Further Challenge Blog
Take It Further Challenge Flickr Group