Monotangle Mondays; My New Tangle LeafRing; 7F5R Challenge; Inspired by...

Monotangle Mondays

I fell behind on Zen Gulf Cafe's Monotangle Mondays due to January's Fragments challenge and while I was gone, MM had gone, too. It was replaced by something I haven't had a chance to closely look into. 

Then I learned that Monotangle Mondays series 2 had finished, but series 3 will start soon. Good news! I like 1 tangle, 1 tile, 1 week. Just what the doctor ordered.

So the last 4 Monotangle Mondays in series 2 were:

December 30 with Orlique. A simple tangle, only lines drawn across each other. I had no idea what to do with it so I conducted some investigation and found a nice Orlique tile on the website called Crafts by Betsy. Thank you. Betsy, you saved my day.

Tangle Pattern: Orlique

Monotangle Mondays January 6 - Pea-Nuckle. I drew pea-nuckle before and found the stepout quite challenging. So I constructed my own stepout.

Tangle Pattern: Pea-Nuckle

and here Pea-Nuckle in a duet with my new tangle LeafRing (stepout and more LeafRing samples below).

Tangle Patterns: Pea-Nuckle, Leafring

Monotangle Mondays January 13 - Quandary

Tangle Pattern: Quandary

Monotangle Mondays January 20 - Rixty with a Jonqual border.

Tangle Patterns: Rixty, Jonqual

7F5R Challenge

Tuesday Tangle of the Day February 18, 2025 with Meadowsong, joined by a slightly liberal interpretation of Remo. 

Tangle Patterns: Meadowsong, Remo

Another Meadowsong tile, representing underwater kelp.

Tangle Patterns: Meadowsong, Tipple

New Tangle LeafRing

StepOut to my new tangle Leafring.

Tangle Pattern: Leafring Stepout

Tangle Pattern: Leafring, Damsel Leaf

Sometimes less is more. Another LeafRing tile.

Tangle Pattern: LeafRing

LeafRing as a string with Nymph, Ruutz, Tipple, Fescu and half a Wavlin with criss-cross lines.

Tangle Patterns: Nymph, Ruutz, Tipple, Fescu, Wavlin

Inspired by...

...Spectra, one of my newer tangles. Step-out and sample tiles click here.

Tangle Pattern: Spectra

...a crazy Amplion.

Tangle Pattern: Amplion

...a simple unfoldable artwork I saw on FB. So while drawing the above bookmark style Amplion I decided this is a great idea to try out the 'contract/expand' or 'fold/unfold' here. In my eagerness to get this tile working I lost track of what is up and what is down. I know Eni Oken has her close/open cards, but this style is just easier and less complicated for me to draw.

Crazy Amplion folded...

...unfolding...

...unfolded. The middle part is what made me aware this looks upsidedown...(any upsidedown similarity with the video below is purely coninsidental).

...so I turned it on its back just like the baby elephant in the video below and now the middle part looks familiar, Amplion-like. 

Tangle Pattern: Amplion

Time to Kill

My brain teasers are back. As per many past posts try to figure out what the illustrations might 'spell'. Solutions are at the bottom of this post in the smallest font possible so, in case you accidentally read them before you had a chance to figure them out, they are well hidden. Click on the image to enlarge.

Animal Happy Day...or is it?

Elephant suspence thriller

Thank you for visiting and have a nice day.

Solutions:

1 – Freeze over

2 – Caveman/Mancave

3 – Catwalk

4 – Hiking in the woods (High king)

5 – Sandbox

6 – Lovebirds

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7F5R A Fragment of Your Imagination 2025

A Fragment of Your Imagination January 2025

by 7F5R (7 Forests 5 Rivers) - 5th Year Running and I am losing its focus. It is a "fragments" challenge and I am make tangles out of them. So my New Year's resolution for 2026: "Susie, draw FRAGMENTS! Got it?! FRAGMENTS! 

I set a Reminder just to make sure I do not forget what this challenge is really all about.

First week - day 1-7

Jan 1 - 24711

Tangle Pattern: 24711

Jan 2 - Rossies

Tangle Pattern: ROssies

Jan 3 - Rixty

Tangle Pattern: Rixty

Jan 4 - Well and Jan 6 - Hafal

Tangle Patterns: Well, Hafal

Jan 5 - Fragfunz

Tangle Pattern: Fragfunz

Jan 6 with Jan 4

Jan 7 - Moonpie with Spiky Spikes

Tangle Patterns: Moonpie, Spiky Spikes

Second week - day 8-15

 

Jan 8 - Seashimmer

Tangle Pattern: Seashimmer

Jan 9 - Precious and Jan 12 - Molygon

Tangle Patterns: Precious, Molygon

Jan 10 - Shu-May

Tangle Pattern: Shu-May

Jan 11 - Palg

Tangle Pattern: Palg

Jan 12 with Jan 9

Jan 13 - Nanci

Tangle Pattern: Nanci

Jan 14 - Shipz and Jan 15 - Suru, added Noara because I like it.

Tangle Patterns: Shipz, Suru, Noara

Third week - Day 15 (with 2nd week) -21

Jan 16 - Hearthou and Jan 17 - 123n4

Tangle Patterns: Hearthou, 123n4

Jan 18 - Strircles

Tangle Pattern: Strircles

Jan 19 - Raku, finally done as a true fragment design.

Tangle Pattern: Raku

Jan 20 - Jud

Tangle Pattern: Jud

Jan 21 - Naks

Tangle Pattern: Naks

Fourth week - day 22-28

Jan 22 - Palais

Tangle Pattern: Palais

Jan 23 - Frofeese and Jan 24 - Algae

Tangle Patterns: Frofeese, Algae

Jan 25 - Lacyck and Jan 26 - 3SG

Tangle Patterns: Lacyck, 3SG

Jan 27 - Stearx and Jan 28 - Scenazio

Tangle Patterns: Stearz, Scenazio

Fifth week - Jan 29-31

Jan 29 - Gottago

Tangle Pattern: Gottago

Jan 30 - 8Geben together with Jan 31 - Tri3o and a second tile, discarded but revived, with just Jan 30 - 8Geben.

Tangle Patterns: 8Geben, Tri3o

Tangle Pattern: 8Geben

Google Alblum for all Fragments of your Imagination 2025 tiles click here

Or use these links to go the posts:

FYI 2024
FYI 2023

FYI 2022

FYI 2021

Animal Happy Day

This happens only too often... 

I have two cats, CO and Coal, and I took off their collars. They are now collar-less although fully grown up. I came to this decision because I had an incident with CO where he was in a fight with another cat and the collar got stuck in his jaw forcing his mouth wide open. It happened in my garden and I noticed he was twisting and falling, fighting himself, I quickly took off that stuck collar and all was A-OK. I refuse to imagine what would have happened if this had happened somewhere else.

Both my cats are/were street cats. I can't keep them indoors. Not only do I not have a room I can actually shut except for a bedroom, bathroom and an attached storeroom, but they are the kind of cats that need the open space with CO - most of the time - only coming home to eat. Luckily, I live in a housing estate with private roads thus very few and limited traffic and all houses have fences and walls (to keep dogs in and allow cats a quick refuge should the need arise).

Greetings from Thailand
Thank you very much for visiting

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Monotangles Mondays; Step-Out Of The Month; New Tangles Spectra and Twicks; Refreshers; Inspired by...;

Monotangle Mondays 

Monotangle Mondays for October 7 - BB with Tipple and Dotzstar.

Tangle Patterns: BB, Tipple, Dotzstars

Monotangle Mondays for October 14 - Chainging with Beadline.

Tangle Patterns: Chainging, Beadline

Monotangle Mondays for October 21 - Dyon

Tangle Pattern: Dyon

Monotangle Mondays for October 28 - Eke with Flux and Fescu.

Tangle Pattern: Eke

♻️ Monotangle Mondays for November 4 - Fescu "Spotlights" on packaging paper tile.

Tangle Pattern: Fescu

Monotangle Mondays for November 11 - Gneiss. Dark Gneiss...

Tangle Pattern: Gneiss

...Gneiss on Gneiss on Gneiss and...

Tangle Pattern: Gneiss

...a more flowy Gneiss.

Tangle Pattern: Gneiss

Monotangle Mondays November 18 - Hibred, with Pasta-S and Kepi string.

Tangle Patterns: Hibred, Pasta-S, Kepi string

Monotangle Mondays November 25 - Icanthis

Tangle Pattern: Icanthis

Monotangle Mondays December 2 - Juke 

Tangle Pattern: Juke

Monotangle Mondays December 9 - Knase

Tangle Pattern: Knase

Monotangle Mondays December 16 - Marasu

Tangle Pattern: Marasu

Monotangle Mondays December - Nipa (-New Year Trees)

Tangle Pattern: Nipa

Step-Out of the Month

I believe this challenge has reached its end. I got no December email. A comment on their FB webpage indicated that a new signup received the message that November was the last sootm challenge.

So here we go...

September 2024 with Sprooka (= Mooka with a tail), Sprux (= Flux with a tail), and Sprokeroot (= Pokeroot with a tail)

Hashtags: #sprooka #sprux #sprokeroot #sootm #conzentric

Tangle Patterns: Sprooka, Sprux, Sprokeroot

October 2024 with the fleur-de-lis lookalike Amplion.
Hashtags: #amplion #sootm #conzentric

Tangle Pattern: Amplion

November 2024 with the new fantastic tangle Adamantis by Oswald Burbano Sandoval CZT. If you are interested and would like to see how he draws it, here his step-by-step YouTube video. I will certainly have another go at the author's original design.

Hashtags: adamantis #sootm #conzentric

Tangle Pattern: Adamantis

My New Tangles SPECTRA...

Spectra StepOut 

Tangle Pattern: Spectra

Spectra with a freeform waveline

Tangle Pattern: Spectra

Spectra Christmas tree

Tangle Pattern: Spectra

...and Twicks

Twicks StepOut

Tangle Patterns: Twicks

Twicks in a circle

Tangle Patterns: Twicks

Twicks with tipple big and small

Tangle Patterns: Twicks, Tipple

Refreshers

Refresher #264 with tangles Punzel, Windmill, Naf, Ofloat, and Shango

Tangle Patterns: Punzel, Windmill, Naf, Ofloat, Shango

Refresher #265 with tangles Doo Dah, Zanglers, Kaas, Esher, and Aydee.

Tangle Patterns: Doo Dah, Zanglers, Kaas, Esher, Aydee

Refresher #266 with tangles Waybop, Heartangles, Tanson, Steron, Blaw

Tangle Patterns: Waybop, Heartangles, Tanson, Steron, Blaw

Refresher #267 with tangles Rain, Lisette, Gelijoy, Syng, Fairywings. Last tangle Refresher for 2024. 

Tangle Patterns: Rain, Lisette, Gelijoy, Syng, Fairywings

Next will be published around middle January 2025.

Refresher 251 to 267

Refresher Google Album 001-267

Inspired By...

...Cubine

Tangle Pattern: Cubine

...Linedrawn design by Katell with Knightsbridge. More doodle than tangle (so I added Kingsbridge), but I couldn't resist following her video. I drew only 7 leaves instead of 8. 

Tangle Pattern: Knightsbridge

...three new tangles I have come across on Pinterest: Lilu by Elena Boboyants, Dionaea by Amber Rain Davis CZT, and Kepi by Debbi Minero. 

Tangle Patterns: Lilu, Kepi, dionaea

Time to Kill

If you are a frequent visitor to my pages you already know that the solutions to these Brainteasers are at the bottom of this page, sort of 'hidden' in tiny small font size just in case you ended there before you had a chance to figure out the images below.

Animal Happy Day

Every time I see these videos, and there are tons of those, I imagine if I was an animal, gotten insured and nobody is taking care of me. As an animal I am not able to help myself and I don't understand what happened to me and why I am suffering so much. Then everything changes because there ARE good careing people in this world. 

Animal Aid Unlimited is one of my animal rescue centers I support.

Actually AAU in India is not just rescuing animals of all sorts including wild, but going around cooperating and educating the community. Now they are getting calls from kids asking for their assistance when they see animals trapped, injured, neglected or otherwise in need of their help. Well done, AAU.

Aaaand....if you happen to visit India any time soon or in the future, why not paying AAU a visit and say hi to Hobnob.  

I did it! all my 'todo' challenge tiles for 2024 are done.

I finished this blog in the last few hours left of 2024. 

Welcome 2025

May you all have a splendid New Year

Quiz solutions

1 – Fishing hook

2 – Farm animal/Animal farm

3 – Touchdown

4 – Honeybee

5 – Cornerstone

6 – Love at first sight

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