Madder Challenge 2025
The #Madderchallenge 2025 took place in November 2025
People were encouraged to share their love of madder on fabric/paper by posting your makes on Instagram. The challenge came about because both @Up00cycled and @ Yvonneelliottstitch bought madder in Morocco in 2023, and this remained un- opened, so something had to be done!!
By using the tag #madderchallenge2025 in each post, we were able to pick up all the related posts, together with the tags @up00cycled and @Yvonneelliottstitch so we could repost these.
Suggested themes for each week were;
1st Week November: #Maddertoptip and #Madderinspiration
2nd Week November: #Madderexperiments and #Madderbestmodification (of colour)
3rd Week November: #Madderbestpiece and #Madderblankets
4th Week November: any of the above hastags.
We were excited to see all things red/orange/pink/maroon that had been created in textiles using madder. There was no limit to the number of posts, and the timetable was only a guide.
