Midway through September Textile Love

It’s midway through September Textile Love, sponsored by Seam Collective. This annual event is always an intriguing journey—contemplating what textiles mean to me, reviewing recent and past photos of my work, and thinking bout how the pieces might relate to the daily prompts. 

Prompts (clockwise from top left): Language, Story-telling, Craft or Art, Experiment.

The prompts

The 2026 prompts, as in the past seasons, have been diverse and thoughtful. The responses from other participants are interesting and insightful, and the photographs of participants’ work are always inspiring. 

Prompts (clockwise from top left): Language, Rethink, Friendship, Caring.

The prompts get me looking at the familiar pieces with fresh eyes. 

Prompts (clockwise from top left): Historical, Color, Historical, Rethink.

How to love textiles… count the ways

There are myriad ways to love textiles! The remaining prompts for September Textile Love offer reasons to look at them through a different lens and make new discoveries.

September Textile Love 2026 prompts.

September Textile Love: 30 days of textile inspiration

September is here, and that means it’s time for September Textile Love, hosted by Seam Collective!

This year, the Challenge snuck up on me… but when the list of prompts showed up in my e-mailbox on August 31, I decided to participate again. 2026 marks my 9th year taking part.

September Textile Love 2026 prompts.

What is the September Textile Love challenge?

The idea is pretty simple: 30 days, 30 textile-related prompts, and an invitation to makers, artists, stitchers, quilters, knitters, weavers, yarn/fabric/thread aficionados, and textile lovers to share their work and their own interpretation of the prompt. 

There are no right or wrong answers! A single word or idea can inspire so many different responses. Give a group of textile artists the same prompt and you’ll get a myriad of interpretations. But know there will be 30 days of something surprising and inspiring popping up in your Instagram feed. 

Textile stitch landscape.

There is a September Textile Love Planner available on the Seam Collective blog. You can print it out and make a few notes. Sometimes I immediately know how to respond to a prompt, but for others… I have to scroll through photos, works-in-progress, less-than-successful experiments, and the creative corners of my brain to figure out what that prompt means to me.

The prompts are a good way to revisit previous work, review what’s currently on the cutting table, as well as discover new textile artists from around the world. The challenge, which began in 2017, has grown into a wonderfully supportive online textile community. It does not disappoint!

30 days of textile inspiration

So, for the next 30 days, I’ll be celebrating the love of textiles… one prompt at a time. Whether you’re a longtime participant or this is your first year discovering September Textile Love, I hope you’ll join in the textile love. Share your projects or simply follow along and enjoy all the creativity. 

Get ready for September Textile Love Challenge 2024

Coming soon… September Textile Love… sponsored by Seam Collective. Who’s up for a play-along?

September Textile Love Challenge 2024

I’m anxiously awaiting the release of the 30 prompts for this year’s September Textile Love Challenge. My first foray with this online Challenge was back in 2018. I can’t believe this is my 7th year!

I’ll be scrolling through my digital photo library in preparation for my responses to the daily prompts. Sign up for their newsletter or check the Seam Collective website for the list.

"September Textile Love" Challenge starts today

Welcome September! It's time again to celebrate textiles with the September Textile Love Challenge, hosted by Seam Collective. The Day 1 Introductions are beginning to stream on Instagram.

My Day 1 Intro to #SeptTextileLove challenge is posted on Instagram
at veronica.fiberantics. I'm standing in front of my design wall with
#100days100blocks progress.

I participated in this Challenge last year and was introduced to many textile and fiber artist as well as being very inspired by what was posted. Daily prompts encourage textile artists, makers, students and anyone with a love for textiles to share a picture in response to the prompt. The 2019 prompts are listed here and there is also a worksheet for download.

September Textile Love Challenge for 2019 begins.

People's interpretations to the prompts can be enlightening, inspiring, fun and thought-provoking. This year, the folks at Seam Collective have included prompts that touch on the idea of sustainability and sustainable practices. It should be a very intriguing September!

I'm taking the September Textile Love Challenge

This summer, I joined the #100Days100blocks2018 Challenge. This was my first virtual stitch-along and I'm enjoying it. A recent Instagram post by a friend introduced me to the UK-based textile community, Seam Collective. Seam Collective is issuing their second September Textile Love Challenge. I decided to jump on board!

This is my Textile Love "Introduction" photo to my chaotic studio space with its
wild, uncontrollable yet colorful design wall. Only 2 WIPs on it today.

This is my "Introduction" post photo on Instagram, where the Challenge is hosted using hashtag #SeptTextileLove. I'm not experienced with selfies (nor do I like them much), so just take in the color in the background... or the lovely Art Gallery knit fabric I'm wearing. Be sure to follow me at veronica.fiberantics to see my responses to the SeptTextileLove daily prompts.

Daily prompt worksheet for the Seam Collective September Textile Love Challenge.

On the Seam blog, you can download a worksheet with the full month of daily prompts issued for the Challenge. Here's my worksheet amidst the Majestic batik scraps I'm using for the 100 Blocks Challenge. Yep, my cutting board looks much like my design wall.

I would like to use some of the Textile Love prompts on new work—or in-progress pieces that have stalled. But I'm OK with experiments and practice swatches. I believe that every piece you start doesn't need to be finished. Sometimes a piece serves a temporary purpose for experimentation, skill building, auditioning... or ya just need to busy your hands. If I don't used a prompt for doing hands-on work, it will motivate a search for inspiring photos from my archives. A revisit to inspiration from the past is a good thing, too.

September always reminds me of the end of summer, the saturated colors of Fall, going back to school, and the opportunity and possibilities for learning new things! This September Textile Love Challenge fits this so well.