Cherrywood Fabrics has unveiled the theme for their 2026 challenge. Each year Cherrywood produces a set of fabrics in a limited color palette and asks its contestant to a quilt of a certain size themed to that year's challenge. For 2026, the "theme inspires you to stitch your story." What do you think it is? Click through to find out.
From Cherrywood Fabrics:
"Hopefully, we all have memories of snuggling in at night for storytime, anticipating a story that captured our imagination. Remember that one book you just HAD to read over and over? The illustrations were just so beautiful and the story was just right.
Books published in the 50s through 80s had a certain illustrative style, quality, paper, feel and even smell. The Classics bring joy to generation after generation of hungry minds.
Introducing the Cherrywood Challenge 2026: Storytime. The stories we read as children are woven into the fabric of who we become. We have captured the vintage palette of some of our favorite books to help you stitch your own story."
Love Cherrywood Fabrics and the challenge? Learn more about its history and the challenge's creator, Karla Overland, and how to work in a limited color palette in our latest shows, Limited Color Palettes and Creating Texture with a Double Needle - Karla Overland | Overdyeing Fabric - Wendy Richardson.
The Eleventh Annual Cherrywood Challenge starts July 1, 2025 and the quilts are DUE February 15, 2026.
Watch the video below announcing the 2026 Cherrywood Challenge.