Blue Letters

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Ready to give your creativity a little alphabet workout? Our 2026 MPS Quilt Challenge theme is Use Your Letters, and it’s shaping up to be a fun one. Inspired by the 26 letters in the alphabet (and the 26th year of the 21st century—how perfect is that?), this challenge invites you to let letters guide your design in any way that sparks your imagination. You can go literal and add letters to your piece, or take a more playful route by using your initials to inspire colors, blocks, fabrics, or techniques. Quilts are always welcome, of course, but past challenges have included everything from bagsRead More →

Idea Pad

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Submitted by Dianne McD. It’s been a little over 9 months since MPS announced the quilt challenge for 2023.  The theme is “Heritage on a Small Scale” and you can read more about the challenge by following the button link below. I really like this particular challenge and have been thinking about what I could create for it.  So far it’s been lots of random ideas with nothing cohesive coming together to make a smallish challenge quilt.  Nothing feels quite right. Deb Messina is an MPS member who has accepted the challenge, but had also struggled to come up with a concrete plan.  Deb ownsRead More →