Monotangle Mondays; 7F5R; Bi-Monthly OrgTangle 2025; Refreshers 283, 284; Inspired by....

Monotangle Mondays by Zen Gulf Cafe

April 27 - MSST

These pastel-colored tiles are cut out of a book. Sometimes they have little birds, fish, small, slim figures, or other shapes on the page. I usually avoid them, but on this tile I didn't. 

Tangle Pattern: MSST

May 4 - Pinch

Tangle Pattern: Pinch

May 11 - Snail eggs kept in place by Strutz until they hatch.

Tangle Patterns: Snail, Strutz

May 18 - Twing

Tangle Pattern: Twing

7F5R Tuesday Tangle of the Day

April 26 - Squill

Tangle Pattern: Squill

May 12 - Catalyz

Tangle Pattern: Catalyz

Combining 3 weeks...

April 26 - Squill

May 5 - Purk, the square version

May 12 - Catalyz

Tangle Patterns: Squill, Purk, Catalyz

Autangle's Bi-Monthly OrgTangle 4th Year, 2025

April 15 - Four 8 (Stepout13)

Drew two tiles of Four 8. One very much Zentangle-art like and the other more along the "where on earth are the Four 8s?" style. 

Tangle Pattern: Four 8

How many Four 8s are there?

Tangle Pattern: Four 8

April 30 - Classical Lotus (Stepout14)

Tangle Pattern: Classical Lotus

May 15 - Jackie (Stepout15) with Florz

Tangle Patterns: Jackie, Florz

Refreshers

♻️ Refresher #283 with tangles Locar, Hearting, ZigHeart, Hugz and Kisses, and Bugsy on packing paper.

Tangle Patterns: Locar, Hearting, ZigHeart, Hugz and Kisses, Bugsy

Refresher #284 with tangles Wyfore, Quilta, Sprang, Hart-Ellie, and Irice

Tangle Patterns: Wyfore, Quilta, Sprang, Hart-Ellie, Irice

Inspired by...

...the tangle Jajazz with Nzeppel on a string by YuRu Chen. I just wanted to draw a quick and easy tile. No overthinking the 'string' (I never use one anyway), no absurd design, and no color arrangements. Just a white tile and black pen with little shading.

Tangle Pattern: Jajazz, Nzeppel

Inspired by Zentangle Artists' Video Tutorials

Sandhya Manne STUDIO's Foundabout Tangle Tutorial

Week 16 - Zentangle Weekly 2026

Tangles used: Sinchun, Foundabout, Ovolution, and Nzeppel.

I honestly can’t remember how I stumbled across this artist, but I’m glad I did. While exploring her YouTube channel I noticed her mini project she launched on beginning of January called "Zentangle Weekly 2026." Fast forward to today, and she has already shared 22 weekly tutorials, each adding another piece to the journey. Curious to see what it was all about, I clicked through some of her videos and soon found myself happily drawing along the week 16 tutorial. Her teaching style is relaxed, easy to follow, and genuinely enjoyable. I certainly plan to return for more.

I also appreciate that she lists the tangles she used in each tutorial in the description, making it easy to look up the step outs if needed. 

Tangle Patterns: Sinchun, Foundabout, Ovolution, Nzeppel

Time to Kill...

...with 6 new brainteasers. The letters in the 5th puzzle are B O W. Solutions at the very end of this post in tiny small font.

Animal Happy Day

Yes, this is a loooong video… 27 minutes to be exact. 😄 It’s about the rescue of two baby cows, and honestly, parts of the video looked strangely blurry to me at first… until I realized the problem was not the camera. It was my eyes filling up with tears from laughing and being ridiculously happy for these little moo-machines.

Now, fair warning: there *is* one tiny sad moment somewhere in the middle. But don’t start hunting for it by dragging the timeline back and forth like an FBI investigator. 😂 It’s only briefly mentioned, and chances are you’ll completely miss it if you wander off to the kitchen to make coffee while “distance-watching” the story.

So just sit back, relax, and prepare for a full emotional journey featuring chaos, cuteness, and two highly determined baby cows. 🐄🐄

Coal strategically positioned on the window guards, carefully monitoring my plant-watering performance.

At first glance you may think:

“There’s no cat in this picture.”

See that suspicious little black dot in the middle at the far end?

That’s him. That's Coal.

Need proof?

"Hey you, how did I do today?"

Hmmm... at least he is not yawning!

Thanks for hopping by and
have a nice one.

Solutions to the May 2026 Brainteasers

1 – Sunken

2 – Wise guy

3 – Stay indoors

4 – Crystallise/Crystallize

5 – Elbow

6 – New Zealand

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OrgTangle; 7F5R; Monotangle Mondays; Refresher 274/5; New Tangle Pen-8

Here it is — my August 2025 Zentangle round-up! 🎉

The “Stuck In A Rut” tiles will get their own post soon, so please forgive me when another update from me pops up in your feed! 😉

After all these years of tangling, I think I’ve finally found my groove for sharing my tiles: one post at the end of the month for my regular challenges, and a separate post for the special ones.

I hope this new rhythm makes it easier (and more fun!) to browse through my tiles — and that you’ll keep stopping by to share the joy with me.

AuTamgle Orgtangle's Bi-Monthly

July 15 - S-Bahn with Mooka, Betweed and the 2nd tile simply with Tipple

#orgtangle2024stepout19

Tangle Patterns: S-Bahn

July 31 - Cross Flower

#orgtangle2024stepout20

Tangle Pattern: Cross Flower

August 15 - Tower to Tower. 

#orgtangle2024stepout21

Tangle Pattern: Tower To Tower

7F5R Tuesday Tangle of the Day

July 22 and 29 with Prabo and Catalyz respectively.

Tangle Patterns: Prabo, Catalyz

August 5 - Fento

Tangle Pattern: Fento

August 12 - HeartbitZ with SeZ just because both their names end with a 'Z'. Makes sense, huh?  😁

Tangle Patterns: HeartbitZ, SeZ

August 19 - Leman with my own tangle Cre-A-Top

Tangle Patterns: Leman, Cre-A-Top

Zen Gulf Cafe Monotangle Mondays

July 28 - Noom (or is it Noom Repus? Let's keep it simple.) garnished with some Tipple.

Tangle Patterns: Noom, Tipple

August 4 - Pendrill. Whenever I drew Pendrill, or attempted to draw it, I had difficulties with the knot. It never looked "right" or eye-pleasing to me. So this time I practiced to the point where my 'knot' became an 8 wearing a hat...and then I exaggerated it to drive the point (practice makes perfect) home. 

Tangle Pattern: Pendrill

Pendrill as it must have looked during the Flintstones' era with Fento, the leafy kind, from "Monotangle" Mondays, together with Arik.

Tangle Patterns: Pendrill, Fento, Arik

August 11 - Quib, a messy one.

Tangle Pattern: Quib

August 18 - Sedgling

Tangle Pattern: Sedgling

August 25 - Tipple cluster with some dented tipples.

Tangle Patterns: Tipple

Refreshers

Refresher #274 with tangles MySeaLiam, Hearts4G, Ya, Yes, and Leef-ish

Tangle Patterns: Mysealiam, Hearts4G, Ya, Yes, Leef-ish

August Refresher #275 with tangles Ellish, Dented Moon, Crosskick, Victory, and Fenglish.

Tangle Patterns: Ellish, Dented Moon, Crosskick, Victory, Fenglish

My new tangle Pen-8

My Pendrill '8' practice (bright yellow tile above) led me to my new tangle Pen-8. Early into my Pendrill-knot practce I knew there can be more to the '8'. So Pen-8 was created, here with Fontana.

Tangle Patterns: Pen-8, Fontana

Pen-8 stepout

Tangle Pattern: Pen-8

Time to Kill

August's brainteasers. Solutions are added to the bottom of the page in tiny font so you, too, can figure out those clues before unintentionally reading them. 

Animal Happy Day

This is the very short story of Soraida, the Thai woman who built the world's first Elephant Hopsital in Lampang, Thailand. However, that is not how I first heard of her. The story that is not told in the short video below is much more heartbreaking and daring - it should be told in a movie. 

It was in 1993 when I heard that there was an elephant baby in Bangkok that had been hit by a lorry...

Please click on the four links to read the sad story about Honey and Soraida and Soraida's daring fight for the elephants. It is worth your time:

Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4

Meanwhile get to know Soraida here. 

Thanks for dropping by my post
and poof, it’s already September! This year has some serious speed!

Solutions to August's brainteasers:

1 – Sunroof

2 – X-ray

3 – Doghouse

4 – Excuse me

5 – French fry/French fries

6 – Pardon me

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