Square One Fan Club, Summer Tangles, and Spoolies with Overlap Outlines

Square One week August 17 - August 23, 2018: FAN CLUB

My initial response to the challenge was: take a break. I wasn't all that keen into drawing Fan Club. Then, only God knows why, I ended up drawing two tiles. Go figure. The first tile is the result of a movie inspiration: 'Upside Down', a story of twin worlds, one rich one poor, each comprising the sky of the other. The movie didn't impress me much, but the concept came in handy.

Tangle Patterns: Fan Club, Nzeppel, Tipple

...and here the pale-in-comparison Fan Club tile or the reason why my initial approach to this challenge was to skip it.

Tangle Patterns: Fan Club with Tipple

Summer Tangles 2018 next.

August 14, 15, 17, and 19 - Leafslide, Rashell, Floatfest, and Warped Eggs as texture. To give the tile more contrast I wanted to fill some of the Floatfest loops with black. I was pretty disappointed when I noticed there was exactly only ONE white space that didn't have a black loop touching. Guys, I have no idea how you can just draw and create wonderful beauties while I - obviously - need major planning!

Tangle Patterns: Leafslide, Rashell, Floatfest, Warped Eggs

August 13th - Bijou. I had absolutely no idea what to draw to make my tile 'bijou-y', but rings can be bijou, right? Here, too, I ended up with 2 tiles and sporting the same main subjects. My first result was the fully tangle loaded tile. The rings, or Bijoux, didn't stick out, so I made another, semi filled tile with the same rings (same rings? Who does that? I!). Now, in my eyes that is my Summer Tangle Bijou tile on the listing as August 13th. (Mental note: Susie, make auras! OOOOOOOras!!!!)

Bijou tile semi filled

Bijou tile overloaded

I have refresher #185 in the works since a few days, but the tangle combo doesn't work for me (Finery, Pezember, Lily-Eyes, Spoolies, and Puffy 8's). When I did the marathon refresher catch-up there were several tangle bundles I had difficulties with, but I always got something together pretty soon. Now, that I have more time, that 'time' is like a brain blocker. So there is some truth in the saying: If you want something done ask a busy person to do it.

Here 3 of the 5 tangles from the refresher I had never done before = Training Tiles.

♻️ Pezember on a recycle tile - or Pezember the headache.

Tangle Pattern: Pezember

Pezember and Lily-Eyes

Tangle Patterns: Pezember, Lily Eyes

Spoolies with Overlap Outlines.

Instead of making the overlaps look like they are over and under each other, I drew both outer lines, but not the other crossing lines.

Tangle Pattern: Spoolies with Overlap Outlines

Animal Happy Days

The monsters from next door.
Psst! They are asleep on Shadow's towel pile in my storeroom!

"Hello, no-names!" Aren't they adorable little cuties? (When they don't play in my delicate fern plants during the night. Grrr***!!!!)

Animal Happy Day

4 dog desert rescue - I almost bit my nail off on this one




If you plan to adopt a pet rabbit you might want to remember to purchase a rabbit bathroom double the size of the rabbit or larger.

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IAST 256, Summer Tangles 2018, and Square One

There are still a few weeks left in the Summer Tangles 2018 daily tangle challenge. This first tile of this week covers...

August 7 and 8 - Prestwood and Zenplosion Folds.

Tangle Patterns: Prestwood, Zenplosion Folds

August 9-12 with Vache 1, Organic, Clob, and Snugz.

Tangle Patterns: Vache 1, Organic, Clob, Snugz

♻️ August 4th and 16th with Zendala and Biscus respectively on Toilet roll.

Tangle Patterns: Zendala, Biscus

♻️ August 16th - Biscus on a newspaper ad for chocolate.

Tangle Patterns: Biscus

Summer Tangles 2018 to be continued...

Square One week of August 10 - 16, 2018: UNDU

Tangle Patterns: Undu

IAST challenge #256 with Mazorito, Hexa, & Horti.

Tangle Patterns: Mazorito, Hexa, Horti

Some more Mazorito with Sedgling

Tangle Patterns: Mazorito, Sedgling

Inspired by... Way Knot by Helen Williams

Tangle Patterns: Way Knot

Animal Happy Day

Determined thief. So cute!!!

Enjoy a rainy weekend. Well, it rains here as we speak.

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IAST 255, Summer Tangles, My new Tangle Mir.I.Am, and Square One

Square One August 3-9 featured the tangle ICANTOO. So I did it, too. Here with some Blueberry Pokeroot, a striped (and a non-striped) Toodles, and loads of Black Pearlz without dots but with hair-thin reflection lines.

Tangle Patterns: ICANTOO, Pokeroot, Plack Pearlz

And here come the Summer Tangles 2018 tiles. The days are passing faster than I can draw tiles. Let's start with July 29 and Scallamp.

Tangle Patterns: Scallamp, Black Pearlz

July 30 with Zenbutton. I am no fan of Zenbuttons, so for this challenge I took a rejected tile and made circles over the design and thus made a different kind of a Zenbutton. Actually...I quite like the idea.

Tangle Patterns: Zenbutton

August 1-3 and 5 with Knot Rickz, Chaist, Golven, All About V. This tile is the 2nd I made because the first one, an attempt to draw in the real Zentangle style, made no sense to me.

Tangle Patterns: Knot Rickz, Chaist, Golven, All About V

....here the first, 'nonsense' making tile.

Tangle Patterns: Knot Rickz, Chaist, Golven, All About V

July 31 with Ringz. First there was no 31 July, then it was with Ringz, and then I wasn't sure which Ringz am I supposed to draw. There are 2 Ringz tangle with the exact same spelling, one by Laura A. Marks, CZT and the other by Alice Henden, CZT, so I drew them both.

Tangle Patterns: Ringz, Ringz

The last tile for today (Sat), done asap to make the publishing deadline...IAST #255 challenge with Konk and Flog. I hadn't done a IAST tile for a few weeks, so pressure was on.

Tangle Patterns: Konk, Flog

My new tangle MIR.I.AM

Last week I ran out of time to do the step out for my new tangle "Mir.I.Am". So, here, as promised the step out 1-5 and an additional monotile showing Mir.I.Am in a grid.

Tangle Patterns:

Mir.I.Am ("Mir Ai Aem", a member of the "I.Am" family) in a grid formation.

Tangle Patterns: Mir.I.Am

Another Mir.I.Am tile I published already the week before. But to keep step out and samples nicely together....

Tangle Patterns: Mir.I.Am with Poa

I AM NOT PROPERTY!

I got an email this week from Animal Legal Defense Fund announcing their new campaign "I am not Property". With this social media campaign they want to rise awareness to the problem they face daily in American courts concerning our 4-legged family members. If you want to join and support the campaign which ends August 31st please visit their website to download the poster and get the  social media links where to post it.

I am not Property!!!...

Shadow will be "Sweet 16" September 7th!!!

I cross my fingers he makes it. He is rather weak, often disoriented, breathing is laborious at times, but he still eats like a horse. But all in all I would say he is OK for his age and equally important in good hands, his assisted living facility has an excellent 24-hour service. And when I say 24(!) hours I really do mean 24 hours!

GOOD NEWS!!!! She is baaaaa-ack!!!

Alive! and Well! Hurrah!

I first saw our missed cat Monday night while she was doing stretching exercises on the street. When I spotted her I instantly stepped out of the shower, threw a towel on, grabbed my mobile and shot this sequence of images through the gate. Once I got returned clad in decent clothes she had gone.

Then Thursday morning I went over to my friend's house to feed the fish and who was waiting there for me? The cat minus pregnant belly. She is back to being shy again and what ever happened to her babies I think we will never know. Well, my neighbors and I are just happy seeing here alive and well!

Animal Happy Day

Another adoring cow bonding story. I can't get enough of animal bonding stories no matter what animals.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend!

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Square One, Summer Tangles, Refresher, and more...

Square One, last week of July, with Poa and my new tangle Mir.I.Am. Step-out next week due to lack of time. Sorry!

Tangle Patterns: Poa, Mir.I.Am

Next some Summer Tangles 2018. I am lacking in days...still stuck in July, but this week I didn't get going till about Wednesday and then I just hurried to get something done.

July 28th with Pach. Added  Printemps and Vikings 1.

Tangle Patterns: Pach, Vikings 1, Printemps

July 26th with Kuzek. Added Drawings, Shattuck, Finery, Onamato, half Koloski, Tipple

Tangle Patterns: Kuzek, Drawings, Shattuck, Finery, Onamato, half Koloski, Tipple

July 27th with "Microtangle". For a long time I had no idea what I could draw to represent Microtangle (work small). Then it hit me. I am a stamp collector...stamps are small. So here 3 stamps created by me using tangles Spearator, Mir.I.Am, and Puff Ball Tops.

Tangle Patterns: Spearator, Mir.I.Am, and Puff Ball Tops

♻️ Refresher #184 with Pach as a flower, Marasu, Meriberries, MySwing, and Vikings 1. (Toilet tissue roll)

Tangle Patterns: Marasu, Meriberries, MySwing, Pach, Vikings 1

My Tile Project by Nancy Domnauer, CZT. Meridiana from Drawing from the Day sent me an email introducing this new "My Tile Project" challenge. We can choose 3 tangles and 1 we take from the list. First Name: Susie - I chose Serpi. Last Name: Ngamsuwan - I chose Nunsuchi. Birth month: April - Knightsbridge on the list. Fav tangle - I chose Nymph. Yeap, I liked the challenge.

Tangle Patterns: Serpi, Nunsuch, Knightsbridge, Nymph

This  is my Meriberries training monotile I drew before attacking the above Refresher.

Tangle Patterns:

Pach tile. Pach was this week in both Summer Tangles and Refresher. I like the circle, but decided to draw Pach flowers for my tiles instead.

Tangle Patterns: Pach

This Krokus fun tile was a quick one I wanted to squeeze in before going to bed late Friday night. When I saw Helen Williams' Krokus, I knew I had to draw it. I figured the step-out comes later so I tried to figure it out by myself, which wasn't as easy as I first thought. A few days later and still no step-out I checked the database sites - just in case - and there it was: Krokus by Sue Schneider, CZT. Sorry, Sue, but I don't think I have ever seen it before...

Tangle Patterns: Krokus

Animal Happy Day

If you love dogs and all kinds of animals and travel to India, you may want to stop by and lend a hand at Animal Aid Unlimited.

Thanks for stopping by and have a splendid week.

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