I'm wondering if you have taken part in any 'Quilt Challenge'. It may have been a certain colour or fabric that a bunch of you or your guild had to use. Or a certain size or theme, a particular block etc. Do you like challenges? What have been the most fun or interesting for you? BOM? Mystery? Something else? I'd love to hear your ideas new and old, whether you've just heard of them or you've actually done them. What's been the most fun and/or interesting?

For example, Quilt Shows often have a 'challenge'. Our guild had a challenge one year that worked like this: In month 1, each participant had to pick a numbered brown envelope without knowing what was inside. Everyone had something different. But when we opened the envelope, which we had to sign for, everyone has a different cardboard box cover. Maybe it was cornflakes, toothpaste, crackers, ice cream bars, etc. We have to make a quilt that included EVERY colour from that box front, including any tiny trademark symbols etc. At the end of the year, the winner was chosen who had the most accurate duplication of every single colour, and only those colours in a quilt. It didn't matter what the image or design of the quilt was, but it HAD TO have every single colour.

Another year, everyone was given a piece of blue fabric which was to represent the river nearby. Everyone has to use that fabric and make an art quilt of a scene by the river. The only thing was each side of the quilt (I think 12" x 12" ) had to have at least 2 inches of that blue fabric on its side edges. For the yea-end show, the quilt were put alongside each other and it show a river landscape with many various scenes, many well known spots too. We took the St Lawrence River because much of it runs through Quebec.