Step-Out of the Month August; Monotangles Mondays; Refreshers; Inspired by...

Step-Out of the Months...

...August - Ferina

Hashtags: #ferina #sootmaugust24 #sootm #stepoutofthemonth #ConZENtric 

Facebook page - Ferina Pattern Stepout page - ConZENtric's general patterns page

Tangle Pattern: Ferina

Tangle Patterns: Ferina, Tipple

Tangle Pattern: Ferina on Hexagon Background

Tangle Patterns: Ferina lined up, Ruutz

Tangle Patterns: Ferina lined up, Fescu

Monotangle Mondays and Autangle 2024

Zen Gulf Cafe's Monotangle Mondays for August 26, 2024 - Verdigogh. Added Strutz to keep Verdigogh from colapsing.

Hashtags: #monotanglemondays #zengulfcafe

Tangle Patterns: Verdigogh, Strutz

Monotangle Mondays for September 2 - Warble.

Tangle Pattern: Warble

Monotangle Mondays for September 9 - XYP together with 

Autangle 2024 day 5 Braze and Yeboat.

Tangle Patterns: XYP, Braze, Yeboat

Monotangle Mondays for September 16 - Yincut in a wonky grid.

Tangle Pattern: Yincut

Monotangle Mondays for September 23 - Zenith with Mooka 

Tangle Patterns: Zenith, Mooka

♻️ Monotangle Mondays for September 30 - Amaze with 

Autangle 2024 day 15 Hirari on packaging paper.

Tangle Patterns: Amaze, Hirari

Refreshers

Refresher #261 featuring tangles Braze, Jubilee, Haf n Haf, Checkmate, and Happy.

Tangle Patterns: Braze, Jubilee, Haf n Haf, Checkmate, Happy

Refresher #262 with tangles Zinger, Rosone, Appease, Tweak, and Sanaura

Tangle Patterns: Zinger, Rosone, Appease, Tweak, Sanaura

Refresher #263 with tangles Oof, Decoo, Allstars, Wildwood, and Bababa.

Tangle Patterns: Oof, Decoo, Allstars, Wildwood, Bababa

Inspired by...

...Hexagon, a background I noticed on the Ruthless potcast.

Tangle Pattern: Just Hexagons

...♻️CZT Nadine Roller's tangle Believe on packaging paper.

Tangle Pattern: Believe

Time to Kill...

Here we go again, Brainteasers. Either I suffer from a sever case of braincell loss or something was preventing me from 'reading 4 and 5', of which 5 is really clever.

Solutions - as always - right at the end of this post in the smallest font size so you don't accidentally scroll all the way down and read the solutions without having had a proper go at the quiz. 

Animal Happy Day

... and sometimes they choose you.

Brain teaser solutions:

7 – Vegetables

8 – Afternoon tea

9 – Camping overnight

10 – Time to go

11 – Long time no see

12 – Polite

This post should have been published a long time ago, instead I spent all my free time tangling. Inktober 2024 is done and I post it in the next day or two and a new post with 6 weeks of Monotangle Mondays is already in the pipe, too. It is weird: I love filling a post with tiles, but deciding when to publish the post is like a slightly too high hurdle to jump at times. Thus the delay.

Thanks for visiting and enjoy your Thanksgiving with your family.

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Step-Out of the Months April to July; Refreshers 258, 259, 260; IDoZ 2024; New Tangle Duppler; and Inspired by...

Step-Out of the Month

Step-Out of the Month April - Waves of Depth. After I published my 1st Waves of Depth tile in the long overdue last post I had an idea for a second tile. The style of 'waves' is similar; but I added Toodles to camouflage the the loops above the middle line with the circles.. 

Hashtags: #wavesofdepth #sootmapril24 #sootm #stepoutofthemonth #ConZENtric 

Tangle Patterns: Waves of Deoth, Toodles

Step-Out of the Month May - Waves of Depth 2.

For more info please check with their FB website or use the link to their general patterns page..

#wavesofdepth2 #sootm #stepoutofthemonth #sootmmay24 #ConZENtric

Tangle Pattern: Waves o Depth 2

Step-Out of the Month June - Elfi with Hollis and Fescu

Tangle Patterns: Elfi, Hollis, Fescu

2nd sootm tile for month June: Elfi with Zinger Hats

Tangle Patterns: Elfi, Zinger

Bent down those Elfi Hurray arms gently to not cause too much harm.

Tangle Pattern: Elfi

Elfi with Tipple and Flux

Tangle Patterns: Elfi, Flux, Tipple

One last Elfi tile for sootm June 2024 together with the beautiful tangle Phicu.

Tangle Patterns: Elfi, Phicu

Step-Out of the Month July - Twinning with Phicops and Flux 'broken tennis rackets...

Tangle Patterns: Twinning, Phicops, Flux

...and with Henna Drums looking like fish in the water. No planning here, only just see it now as such after I placed the tile.

Tangle Patterns: Twinning, Henna Drum

Refreshers

Refresher #258 with tangles Beelight, S-Vine, Sikito, Saatin, and Tut published March 8, 2024.

Tangle Patterns: Beelight, S-Vine, Sikito, Saatin, Tut

Refresher #259 with tangles Beeline, Zig Zag Track, Pod Flower, Sampa, and Pena, published April 5, 2024.

Tangle Patterns: Beeline, Zig Zag Track, Pod Flower, Sampa, Pena

Refresher #260 with tangles Betweed, Logan, UBud, Pud, and Taiga, published May 10, 2024.

Tangle Patterns: Betweed, Logan, UBud, Pud, Taiga

New Tangle: Duppler

♻️Duppler with a flower combination of Waves of Depth2/Mooka and leaves.

Tangle Pattern: Duppler

Stepout to Duppler

Tangle Pattern: Duppler

Inspired by...

...Betweed

Tangle Pattern: Betweed

...Accoladen 01, a beautiful new tangle by Annett Ruempler, CZT.

Tangle Pattern: Accoladen 01

International Day of Zentangle 2024

IDoZ 2024

Tangle Pattern: IDoZ

IDoZ 2024 inside-out

Tangle Pattern: IDoz inside-out

Time to Kill

There we go with another brain teaster. At the time I place this image, I had only glanced at the teaser, but noticed, the first 2 are a child's play. As for the other 4....let me see...

Please click on the image to enlarge it if necessary.

Solutions - as always - right at the end of this post in the smallest font size so you don't accidentally scroll all the way down and read the solutions without having had a proper go at quiz. 

Animal Happy Day

'From an Aussie doggy day care center to a Doggy Farm. Love the story, love the people and am speechless about how well 20+ off-leash rescue dogs of all 'brands' and fur color behave. Who was it who said it is easier to train kids than dogs? 

Thank you very much for visiting.

Brain teaser solutions:

1 – Four-wheel drive

2 – Apple pie

3 – Up to  you

4 – Robin Hood

5 – Design

6 – Engineer

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Refreshers 248, 249, 250, 251, 252, 253, 254, 255; Step-Out of the Month June Huila; July Azura; Inspired by...; and a cardboard tile.

A Look Back

2023 was a bad year for my Zentangle 'artistic' endeavour early on. Just the thought of having to draw a certain tangle for a running project made me shudder. No kidding. After about 6 months I was sure I, drawing tangles, was beyond the point of no return. Then INKtober came along. I joined INKtober in 2018 and didn't miss a year. Would 2023 end up to be the one I had left out? It took 2 weeks into the project before I actually woke up from my sluggishness and longed - yes, longed! - to put pen to paper. I thoroughly enjoyed picking the tangles from the list, mixing them together and at times messing them up a bit. INKtober 2023 was my first post after the April tiles. . 

I have to say, now that I have overcome my lethargy I am a much happier person. I am somebody who needs her daily goals, hours filled with activity. I cannot couch-potato, or sit somewhere quiet and read a book. That affects me negatively. I need to be hands on onto something, to wake up to, and to fill my days. 

After INKtober 2023 I caught up with my steady going Refreshers* from Linda Farmer's website. Yes, all published 255 tiles are done. I am now waiting in my starting blocks for the publishing of January's. I am currently working on the missed 2023 Step-Out of the Month tangles. I plan to follow FYI, another challenge I participated in since it started, ...and then there are 3 more challenges waiting for me in January, but they are of a different kind: Yoga. So it will be a very busy January, maybe a bit stressful to get it all done, but I would not want it any other way!!!! 

* Anyone else doing those Refreshers on a regular basis? 

Refreshers

Refresher #248, published May 12th, features the tangles Icanthis, Sistar, See, Kazuma, and Mintea.

Tangle Patterns: Icanthis, Sistar, See, Kazuma, Mintea

Refresher #249 with tangles Ratoon, Q-Mi, Isla, Bartom, and Eyedazzler was published in June.

Tangle Patterns: Ratoon, Q-Mi, Isla, Bartom, Eyedazzler

Refresher #250 with tangles Aquafleur. Creamy. Threezee, B’Mine, and Shearts was published in July.

Tangle Patterns: Aquafleur. Creamy. Threezee, B’Mine, Shearts

Refresher #251, published August 25, with tangles Assunta, Heartsmeet, Stwist, Edie, and Scape.

Tangle Patterns: Assunta, Heartsmeet, Stwist, Edie, Scape

Refresher #252, published September 8th, with tangles Arukas, Twirlies, Ringrill, Anthem, and Arkand. 

Tangle Patterns: Arukas, Twirlies, Ringrill, Anthem, Arkand

Refresher #253, published October 13th, with tangles Auraknot, Bertee, Ra-on, Azteka, and Fitzi.

Tangle Patterns: Refresher #253 with tangles Auraknot, Bertee, Ra-on, Azteka, and Fitzi

Refresher #254, published November 10th, with tangles Well Well Who, Fontana, Peeks, Jud, and Kadibra.

Tangle Patterns: Well Well Who, Fontana, Peeks, Jud, Kadibra

Refresher #255 published December 8, the last Refresher for 2023. The tangles are: Avreal, Tunnelvizion, Shirley, LiuLiu, and Double Double.

Tangle Patterns: Avreal, Tunnelvizion, Shirley, LiuLiu, Double Double

>>> Tanglepatterns.com's Refreshers #1 to #250 you can find via the Refreshers link in the Menu or all Refreshers together in one Google Folder here.

Step-Out of the Month

♻️ Step-Out of the Month July - Azura, a beautiful botanical tangle by Theresa Fessler drawn on packaging paper. 

Hashtags: #azura #sootm #sootmjuly23 #stepoutofthemonth #conzentric on their FB page.

Tangle Pattern: Azura

♻️ The Azura tile below, drawn on absolutely beautiful packaging paper you usually throw away, was my initial idea, but while working on it I decided that the 'stretched' Azura is better drawn on a longish tile. However, I still wanted to finish the square one and went through 3 (THREE!!!) tries to make it look OK. I added a likely Blattwerk, Tipple and Fescu.

Tangle Pattern: Azura, Blattwerk, Tipple, Fescu

3rd and final Azura tile with the most recognisable Azura tangles. I packed one with Blattwerk and added Coffeebean Flower. 

If you want to see a lot of Azura tiles, all in one place, visit Theresa's special Azura only upload page.

Tangle Patterns: Azura, Blattwerk, Coffeebean Flower

ConZENtric's Step-Out of the Month of June is Huila by Isabel Wallis. If you are not subscribed to #sootm you find the stepout to Huila in her Instagram profile.

Publish tile and Hashtags: #huila #sootm #sootmjune23 #stepoutofthemonth #conzentric on their FB page.

Tangle Pattern: Huila

Same as above but instead of botanical it is geometrical.

Tangle Pattern: Huila

Inspired by Zentangle Artists' Video Tutorials

♻️ This tile has been lying in my 'TODO' folder for ages. So end of year means cleanup time and that is what I did and added a reverse design - Rayz outside-in - for good measure. This is a Video Tutorial by AKASKY using the tangle Rayz. Paper used: Packaging paper from the flower market.

Tangle Pattern: Rayz

♻️ The reversed version as above and injecting some of the Rayz tangles with a bit of Toodles. Paper used: Packaging paper from the flower market. I was really surprised about the 3D effect this tile created. To think that I almost threw the paper out! Unfortunately, there are not too many yellow leaves left (only dull red and dark) and I can't remember which shop used it, else I would hurry to get another plant just to get the paper.

Tangle Patterns: Rayz, Toodles adaptations

Cardboard Tile Drawing

♻️ My first attempt to draw on cardboard and then pull the paper off to reveal the wavy part. It was a lot of fun, I have to admit, and not difficult to draw on at all. Tangles used Bireel Flipped, Taiga, Printemps and the video tut was by Emiko.

Tangle Patterns: Bireel Flipped, Taiga, Printemps

Time to Kill

A new set of 6 puzzles. #4 is enlarged...just in case you can't read it. Solutions - as always - right at the end of this post in the smallest font size so you don't accidentally scroll all the way down and read the solutions without having had a proper go at them. (I drew a blank on #3 and I had a different, but - I insist - more accurate result on #5. I add my result to the bottom answers in ()) 

Animal Happy Day

How do you get 3 big cached dogs down a step hill without freaking them out? On one wheel...once you got the team together to trap them that is.

I wish to all my visitors a great

2024 

with much health, wealth, and happiness

for themselves, their families and their friends..

Coal keeping watch over me when I am in the shower.

Well done, sweety, but you'd better keep an eye
out for those snakes I have in my garden. 
Oh well!

Solution to puzzle above

1 – Many thanks or thanks a lot

2 – Download

3 – No idea

4 – Comfortable

5 – Forty years (42 years - reasoning: each YEARS, YEARS is already in plural. Should have been only one YEARS or YEAR, YEAR)

6 – Excuse me

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