DIVA Challenge 325 - Pea-Nuckle

This is the 2nd week into the DIVA's guest challenger's posts. #325 is again Jessica Davis and she chose a single tangle: Pea-Nuckle or Peanuckle. You should have heard the moaning that erupted from East to West and North to South when tanglers visted the website Monday morning and found out. My ears still suffer from tinnitus. But Jessica seriously tries to convince us non-peanucklers, to jump right into the deep end and start loving it. Ha!

Then it happened to me. Yes! Indeed!

I am/was a non-believer. If you don't like a tangle why should I spend time with it when there are tons of other tangles on the net I fancy and haven't even acquainted myself with yet? But I did as I was told and suddenly the light went on and I found a new way to make Pea-Nuckle a dream to draw.

But first things first.

Here my tile I accomplished when I was still suffering from the Pea-Nuckle hate syndrome. I have a motto: If I can't draw it, fake it. No! I mean.. If I can't draw it, overdo it. With that I mean the irregularities. I made wonky 'S's. Then I first drew one side, then I turned the tile 180' and drew the other side. That explains why one side goes up and the other down. Also, Tipple in the middle: the blue ones are on one side of the S and the empty ones on the other.

Patterns: Pea-Nuckle, big Tipple, Fescu, leaves

The Pea-Nuckle Awakening

This is only a training tile because I was actually ready to upload the blue tile when an idea hit me. What if I start drawing touching ovals where I want the stripped nuckles? I quickly picked up a pen and started sketching. I was delighted! It worked and is sooooo easy! After I penciled the ovals I traced the round narrow edges, got my Ss, and the rest is HI.. STO.. RY!!!! Never has my Pea-Nuckle looked so beautiful!

Tara-Tara!!!

Pea-Nuckle in a circle.

Pattern: Pea-Nuckle

Oops! Above is upside-down.

Pattern: still the same

Ah! Now that is so much better!!!!

Update July 20th:

I thought I will place my steps on how I did the above yellow Pea-Nuckle (by Molly Hollibaugh) tile just in case somebody is interested.

First the ovals. Make sure they overlap a bit

 Then the 'Ss'

 Now draw the pea lines. I didn't draw the nuckle lines as they can vary.

Finally the shading and the closing up of open pea bottoms. Now if that wasn't easy I don't know what easy is.

. Hmm...what am I going to do with this tile now?

... [thinking]

... [thinking some more]

... Okay, got it! Click here.

Animal Happy Day

Do you oppose 'Running Of The Bulls' as much as I do? Well, this one you will love. Trust me.
TRUST ME!!!!
...she says.

Click here.

I promise! You will smile - unless you suffer from cheek muscles stiffness.

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