#AGBeadFam Challenge Prompts!

Hello Friends!

We wanted to thank you all, again, for a great Bead in the New Year Challenge this year! Many people have asked us if we're going to continue #beadinthenewyear for more months. Normally, Bead in the New Year is a challenge we only do in January to help get through the winter doldrums (although, sometimes we do a mid-summer calendar, too). 

Because so many people have asked, we've decided to continue the prompts; but this time, we'll do it in a more relaxed way—we'll be doing weekly prompts for the rest of 2026! We're calling it the #AGBeadFam Challenge.

Because it's Valentine's Day this weekend, we're starting these #AGBeadFam Challenge prompts with "Use a heart in your design this week". If you'd like to continue these maker prompts with us, we hope you'll show what you make in the Allegory Gallery Design Challenges group on Facebook. We look forward to seeing all the great designs that many of you will continue to make with us this year, and we hope you have fun doing it! Stay tuned each week for a new prompt to be released! And, just like Bead in the New Year, there is no need to do them in order or even all of them! Write them down as they come, and use them as inspiration when you need them! 

Also, if you love the wire-wrapped heart that we used on the image above, it comes from our partnership with Jenn Tuschong of The Giggly Gypsy. If you'd like to see how to make it, take a look at the video we did together here on our YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/8Fw8jQLHrRQ