Tidy-Up Tuesday - A Gift for You - TABLE SCRAPS Challenge 2025

Welcome to a new edition of Tidy Up Tuesday!!  It's been a quite a while since the last post in this series and this one is a bit different from the norm.  After tying up some loose ends, I have a gift for you.

A gift, Joyful???

Yes.  The TABLE SCRAPS Challenge (TSC) is back for another round of scrap sewing fun!  I'm here to introduce the updated version for 2025.  How challenging is it if a challenge is exactly the same from year to year?  That's why I invited some friends to help with the prompt list.  I hope you are as excited to hear about it as I am to tell you about it!

Out with the OLD and in with the NEW...

For 2025, I will be offering a MONTHLY THEME to help inspire/inform your work.  What you do with the theme is up to you!  As before, we will continue WORKING WITH SCRAPS from our cutting table (hence the name of the challenge.)  

They say size matters, however...

There's no need to worry about your project being too small or TOO BIG!  Your ENTRIES MAY INCLUDE small items such as basket, bags, pillows, and pin cushions, in addition to runners, toppers, and mug rugs.  AGAIN...  For the purposes of the 2025 Challenge, I invite you to make ANY size project you would like.  If you want to make a full size quilt each month... Knock your socks off!!  :o))

While Angela offers color suggestions through her Rainbow Scrap Challenge, you are always welcome to sew with whatever scraps you choose.

Important Note for Non-bloggers...

Non-bloggers are welcome to email a photo of their entries to share here on The Joyful Quilter.  Instagram users can link to @thejoyfulquilter using the tag #tablescrapschallenge2025 and #tablescrapschallenge when posting participating projects.

What qualifies???

Any quilted item you would like to make.  Surprise us!  You are encouraged to use each month's theme in whatever form they lead. Your interpretation of what to do with it is NOT limited to using the actual prompt in your project!  Although, you are welcome to do that, you may also relate the theme to a color, quilting technique or project type.  Interpreting an item that resembles the prompt is appropriate for a challenge entry, as well.  (Example BOWs = Bow Tie blocks, fabric with bows on it, or depicting an archer, etc.)

The most important part is to have FUN while using the fabric scraps from your cutting table!!

Find the January 2025 TABLE SCRAPS Challenge here...

December 2024 TABLE SCRAPS Challenge Link Party (LIVE on/after Friday, 12/29/24.)

About the prompts for 2025...

As I mentioned a moment ago, they were a collaboration among myself and quilting friends Judy @ Busy Hands Are Happy Hands, LeeAnna @ Not Afraid of Color, along with "The 2023 Temp" at work.  They have been distributed throughout the months of the year wherever the seemed to fit.  Our monthly theme will be release as in previous years.

However...

You may find this year's prompts somewhat less concrete than in other years.  While you may disagree, I just thought that some obscure prompts might be fun to interpret.  I don't want to scare you away!  I just wanted to make sure that the challenge was actually challenging.  The good news is that you ALWAYS have the Color of the Month to fall back on, if you aren't able to think of a way to interpret the prompt!!!  Find each month's word (or phrase) prompt at the end of the previous month's Link Party post.  January 2025's prompt is listed near the bottom of December 2024's TABLE SCRAPS post HERE and I will also update the list on the 2025 TABLE SCRAPS Challenge tab at the top of the blog so that you can easily check back, if you miss a link-up.

When is my monthly project due???

The Link Party will go LIVE on the LAST Friday of every month at 12:00 AM (EST).  You will have until 11:59 PM (EST) on the following Wednesday to join the fun.

I'm SEW looking forward to seeing what YOU will make and your take on using the prompts that I will provide.

Until next time...

Go forth and USE those SCRAPS!!!