Monotangle Mondays; 7F5R; OrgTangle 2025; This Month's Tile....

Monotangle Mondays by Zen Gulf Cafe

May 25 - Avreal

Tangle Pattern: Avreal

June 1 - Bucky v1 and Bucky v2-inception: Bucky v2 inside Bucky v2...okay, fine, just one Bucky v2 (Russian-doll vibes, but with fewer surprises).

Tangle Pattern: Bucky, Bucky

June 8 - Cogwheel

Tangle Pattern: Cogwheel

June 15 - Enyshou with a little bit of AHH!

Tangle Patterns: Enyshou, AHH!

June 22 - Flukes

Tangle Pattern: Flukes

7F5R Tuesday Tangle of the Day

May 19 - Smoldering iBex. A bit late with this tile. The original plan was "Fiery iBex," but by the time I finished, only the embers remained. Fortunately, the fire department declared the tile safe for public viewing this morning. 🔥😄

Tangle Pattern: iBex

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..and this is what Facebook's AI made of my smoldering iBex...Proof that AI could unleash innocent fires on the internet. 🤔🔥

Smoldering iBex on a paper stamp

May 26 - Pirouetting Pental

Tangle Pattern: Pental

June 2 - Twing. Yep, Twing again.

It was all the rage last week with another challenge (May post), so naturally we revisited it for 7F5R. This time I let my pen run wild. It seemed to know where it was going. I certainly didn't.

Tangle Pattern: Twing

June 9 - Drachsel

Tangle Pattern: Drachsel

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

May 31 - Dalima - Stepout16

Tangle Pattern: Dalima

June 15 - Lovtus with a thing in the middle - Stepout17

Tangle Pattern: Lovtus

This Month's Tile

A blank tile is not procrastination. 

It is merely a future masterpiece that hasn't made up its mind yet.

Time to Kill...

...as we knew it for...who knows how many posts...has finished. However, found a new stack of nonsense to keep us entertained.

Welcome to Funny Book Titles! No literary degree required. Simply read the book title and see if you can guess the author's name. Some are clever, some are terrible, and some are terribly clever.

Good luck with these first 6 books! 

Authors

a) Mike Robes

b) Justin Case

c) M. T. Tank

d) Anna Conder

e) Hugo First

f) Roxanne Minerals

Solutions in tiny font at bottom of post.

Animal Happy Day

....and last but not least, if you need some laughs today, watch fun with animals.

Well... that's six months behind us already. Whoever keeps pressing the fast-forward button,
please stop...I still have tangles waiting in the queue!

Happy tangling, and thank you to everyone
who keeps dropping by my little corner of the Zentangle world.

Solutions to June's Time to Kill Funny Book Titles word game

1. Why Cars Stop  – M. T. Tank (empty tank)

2. I’ll Go Second – Hugo First (you go first)

3. Bacteria – Mike Robes (microbes)

4. Geology –  Roxanne Minerals (rocks and minerals)

5. Insurance – Justin Case (just in case)

6. Big Snakes – Anna Conder (anaconda)

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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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Monotangle Mondays and 7F5R weeklies; OrgTangle 2025; Inspired by...

It’s time for another round of 

Monotangle Mondays Season!

March 10 featured the Tangle of the Year: Tripoli. I’m currently experimenting with tracing paper in my ongoing quest to create translucent tiles.

For this one I doubled the tracing paper, drew Tripoli flowers on the right side of the fold and Tripoli shadows on the left. After folding and gluing the tile together, the result turned out… interesting.

The front looks pretty much the way I imagined. The back, however, simply shows plain Tripoli without the magic.

In other words: back to the drawing board. I’m clearly not there yet, but that’s half the fun of experimenting, right?

Tangle Pattern: Tripoli

Fine - If you think my above first Tripoli tile was so far out of the box that you couldn't see the box anymore...I agree. So I drew another Tripoli tile and lured the box back in and now I am sure you agree that you can see Tripoli and the box is only just slightly to its right.

So this is my new contribution to the tangle of the year...Tripoli.

Tangle Pattern: Tripoli

March 16 - Aquafleur with Beadlines

Tangle Pattern: Aquafleur, Beadlines

March 23 - Bronx Cheers. I am no friend of this tangle. I couldn't see myself sweating through a tile full of Bronx Cheers. But, true to my wisdom that a challenge is a challenge, I combined B.C. with two of 7F5R weeklies and created the below Buddy or Companion Challenge tile. 

March 30 - Cirquital in Pangea string with Fescu

Tangle Patterns: Cirquital, Pangea string, Fescu

April 7 - Ennies with wide spreading Printemps on one of  my beautiful colored book pages. meeting Artemis II in space. 

Tangle Patterns: Ennies, Printemps

...and Ennies bumped into Artemis II in space. NASA never reported it, but I insist this is exactly what the crew saw when they looked out the window: an unidentified floating Ennies object, artistic interpretation still pending confirmation.

Tangle Patterns: Ennies

After I posted this Ennies tile on Zen Gulf Cafe's fb website I got the following comment accompanied by this image:

Ennies object in space… love the humor and the art. 

Even funnier is that AI is trying to comprehend ‘Ennies object’ and its movement. 

Too funny!

April 13 - Finery with a little Blattwerk and some Tipple on a page out of my colored pages book.

Tangle Patterns: Finery, Blattwerk, Tipple

April 20 - Ixorus

Tangle Pattern: Ixorus

7F5R Tuesday Tangle of the Day

March 10 - Newira with Savana, another tangle Nina Dreher-Goeddertz CZT 'reeled', and Flux (V), a new tangle published on the Musterquelle listing.

Tangle Patterns: Newira, Savana, Flux (V)

March 17 - Twitti and March 24 - Seesoo together with Monotangle Mondays' March 23 - Bronx Cheers.

Tangle Patterns: Twitti, Seesoo, Bronx Cheers

March 31 - Xircus and a Xircus tangelation. The Xircus tangelation is that messy bit.

Tangle Pattern: Xircus, Xircus tangelation

April 7 - Ulmue, a new tangle by Gabriela Geyer CZT together with Rondaile and Suki

Tangle Patterns: Ulmue, Rondaile, Suki

April 14 - DreamDex. Sometimes you recognize the tangle and sometimes you don't. 

Tangle Pattern: DreamDex

April 21 - Kapas. You guessed it, drawn on another page out of my special colored pages book.

Tangle Pattern: Kapas

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

March 31 - August = tangle name not month (Stepout12) on one of my hardcover books' colored pages. I applied watercolor to color the tangle and the paper - it stood its ground. Halleluiah!

Tangle Pattern: August

Inspired by...

..Ulmue with Flux (V)

Tangle Patterns: Ulmue, Flux (V)

...a tile by Tomas Padros using the tangles Paradox and Betweed. I used the same string in both tiles, but on the blue tile I changed the middle part by extending Betweed coming from the edges all the way to the middle and I gave the string an organic flow. The result is quite impressive.

Original version

Tangle Patterns: Paradox, Betweed

Organic version

Tangle Patterns: Paradox, Betweed

String for above two Paradox/Betweed tiles

...another Paradox tile with Draq, Bublee, Onamato, Mrth, and Cubine.

Tangle Patterns: Paradox, Draq, Bublee, Onamato, Mrth, Cubine

...an Arte Sin Filtro's geometric art design. Click here to see the original.

Tangle Patterns: Jetties, Blattwerk

...Srop, an interesting "Celtic" knot tangle, with Toodles and Tipple. Hmm, it turned out better than I expected.

Tangle Patterns: Srop, Toodles, Tipple

Time to Kill...

...was suspended for a while, Birdy came first. Now it is back again...harder than ever. If you want to peak at the solutions, simply scroll down to the very end of this post. They are typed in the smallest font possible, just in case you change your mind want to have another go at the puzzles.

Animal Happy Day

...and then there were 2, but... 
An elephant story from the Royal Crawl in Thailand. 

Thank you very much for hoping by. 
Have a nice day!

Solutions to the April brainteasers:

1 – Teacup

2 – Fly screen

3 – Metaphor

4 – Leftover/Turnover

5 – Bad influence

6 – Backhand

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