Square One; Hump Day 11, 12, 13; Inspired by...

Square One week September 13-19 featuring Sikito which I overlaid over the tangle Aloha.

Tangle Patterns: Sikito, Aloha

Square One, with the week of August 30 to September 5, had the tangle Molygon featured. The sample tile was a simple Molygon cloud on a black square. I loved the concept and implemented it on my one-sided Molygon butterfly with an Indy-Rella body.

Tangle Patterns: Molygon, Indy-Rella

I tried to manipulate the butterfly a bit. What if I make a cracked oil painting out of it? OK Photoshop, hpo into action! Hmm.. it looks better, or maybe it is the frame I add?

It's raining here and the air feels clammy. Just the kind of weather I do not cope well with while others enjoy the time off the hot sun. Banned to my desk I looked through my unfinished tiles, of which I have a few, and there was a Square One tile from August 15th with All Boxed Up. I made a bunch of Monsterra and Snailway snailing its way through the tile.

Tangle Patterns: All Boxed Up, Monsterra, Snailway

Square One week September 6-12 with 3Pair. All in all I made 3 tiles, trying to "make something" with it, but it didn't work out well. So I will bore you only with 2. 3Pair with 3-corner cadent and 3Pair and a more liberal version as flowers with Stickers and some Toodles to fill the background.

Tangle Pattern: 3Pair

Tangle Patterns: 3Pair,, Stickers, Toodles

Update 15 September (I wrote the above about 10 days earlier) All that you just read above has become false a few days later. I just couldn't get my hands to stop draw-trying more 3Pair. So here is the 4th and really the last tile - with a lace edge.

Tangle Pattern: 3Pair

Inspired by...Geerandola, an organic tangle. Or a cephalopods if slightly altered? Certainly reminds me a bit of a nautilus. I added Zigmat, Zinger, Coffeebean Flower, and Crescent Moon, all hydrophytes, or aquatic plants as well.

Tangle Patterns: Geerandola,  Zigmat, Zinger, Coffeebean Flower, and Crescent Moon

A Pattern under Inspection

In one of the last emails from Pattern Collection about 'deconstructing patterns' they talked about how seemingly tricky patterns can reveal simplifying 'clues' if looked at from different perspectives. I looked at the pattern they showed as an example and thought that - since it is Sunday and I have nothing better to do - I give it a try.

My first attempt, starting with the small circles, was a flop. So I tried the squares. That seemed the way to go, however, since I drew the squares too far apart the crosses didn't work out. So I took out my grid paper and sure enuff, I got my step-out to this 'tricky' pattern in 5 simple steps: penciled grid, squares, circles, loops, and crosses.

There is already a step-out called Curly Squares. It shows that you control the pattern by where you place the squares.

So here we go, Curly Square tangle step-out variation a la sng.

Tangle Pattern: Curly Square a la sng

Inspired by...Curly Square. Now that we have a step-out what about a variation? In this tile I exchanged the 'curly' part with Mooka-loops and put the whole thing into an ogee grid.

Tangle Patterns: Curly Square with Mooka-loops, Snailway

Another Inspired by...tangle: Flostar by Hennie Brouwer. When I saw the stepout I didn't think I would be drawing the tangle, unless of course, it would be featured in a challenge. But then I saw another Flostar tile by Hennie, filled with Paradox, and I became inspired (sorry, I don't have a link for those 2 tiles she drew). So I looked at the stepout again, but noticed that there was a bit of a difference in the steps to the Flostar I saw on the tile. In the stepout we draw the curves in step 2 like a question mark, in step 3 and 4 like an S, while on her later tiles all curves are drawn in the same direction. I had to do both - of course.

So this is done according to stepout - 2 different directions...

Tangle Patterns: Flostar with tipple

...and in these two tiles I only drew the curves in one direction. One with beads and the other with big and small Flostars.

Tangle Patterns: Flostar, big and small

Hump Day #12; first Wednesday of the month with an S-String and S-Tangle(s) for the month S-eptember (so next month it is all about 'O'). I have 2 s-curves and applied the tangle Steps. However, I admit Steps turned out a bit different - Starfishy of sorts maybe? - but what counts is that I had Steps planned and on my mind when drawing this blue tile.

Tangle Patterns: Steps or Starfish something

I did another Hump Day S-eptember tile. This time with real Steps.

Tangle Pattern: Steps

Labor Day! You can say that again. "Labor Day!" It should say "Labor DayS". I indeed labored for this tile and I had headaches on how to draw this challenge. The weekly tangle challenge by Boomeresque, with Hump Day challenge #11, week of August 28-September 3, had the motto "Steampunk" as focus. Although I thought this was quite appropriate considering the Labor day weekend, I am absolutely no Steampunk tangler. Full stop. Still, I accepted the challenge and "labored" over several days adding here a screw and there a nut until finally I had a tile. I have no idea what the 'tangles' are called, but there is a recognizable Strutz and 2 strength adjustable magnifying glasses in it. Well, one is adjustable the other is not.

Tangle Patterns: Strutz and several unnamed

Hump Day #13. It is time I upload this post, but there is always "yet another tile" in the making and thus I keep populating it. Anyway, Hump Day #13, a Boomeresque.com challenge series, has the theme Tree Nymphs for this week. I used my very ONE go-to tangle Narwal for the tree's top, Diva Dance for its trunk, added some Ruutz and Coffeebean Flower/Damsel Leaf (same tangle; different artists) for 'grass'. The little hanging stars represent the tree nymphs.

Tangle Patterns: Narwal, Diva Dance, Ruutz, Coffeebean Flower/Damsel Leaf

Goodbye to IAST

You noticed, there is no IAST in my post title. It was sad to learn that Adele Bruno has retired her weekly challenge series after her 302nd 'tickle', IAST's 6th Birthday. 6 years of hard work, 302 strings, nearly 1,000 tangles, over 9000 tiles sent in from 100's of tanglers from 36 different countries, and tons of the tiles she commented with her little tangle bits, all just to keep us tanglers busy and entertained is remarkable to say the least. I for one miss her, but I also understand Adele's decision and I thank her for her dedication from the bottom of my heart. IAST may you R.I.P.

My personal stats with IAST? First tile which I didn't send in due to lack of reading about deadline was for challenge #181; total tiles I drew for IAST: 117 (for a few challenges I drew 2 tiles); and my last was for #302, published in my previous post.

My first IAST tile

Animal Happy Day

We all know former President Bush, 41. We also know that he had a service dog later in his life called Sully. What you may not know is what happened to Sully after his duty at the Bush residence got terminated. Well, click below and see for yourself...




C.O. has finally 'moved in' - all by himself, didn't give a hand, just to be clear. Yeah, we get along - sort of - his sleeping hours differ to mine. He still has to learn that when I am still sleeping I am still sleeping (at 4 am). So presently he goes through the lessons that it is me who is in control of the exit door and I am quick even that early in the morning.

The rainy season has started here, causing the air to be rather uncomfy humid and clammy. Still, I wish you a great few weeks until my next post makes the net.

Thanks for visiting!

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IAST 301, 302; Refresher 203; Hump Day 9; Square One; and 4C Rope

Refresher #203 published August 9th, 2019 on tanglepatterns.com featuring the tangles Flux, Bysomnus, Tufton, Z'ele, and Capz. It appears that nowadays refreshers are only published once a month instead of twice.

Tangle Patterns: Flux, Bysomnus, Tufton, Z'ele, and Capz

Hump Day #9 runs under the theme "Listen to the Music". Tangles free to choose. I decided to fill my musical key with Narwal. I like Narwal. Wonder why I don't use it more often. Anyway, I made 2 tiles for this challenge and, of course, both with Narwal as the main ingredient.

Tangle Patterns: Narwal and Stonestory

Tangle Pattern: Narwal

♻️ Then I took the musical key and diva danced it on a toilet roll tile. Recently I read about drawing a random string and aura it (sorry, forgot where I read this). The key I used in the above challenge was simply perfect for doing just that. So here yet another Hump Day #9 tile made with the random string/aura idea.

Tangle Patterns: Diva Dance and Tipple

IAST challenge #301 with just one tangle: Gelijoy. Easy. I like monotangle tiles but wondered why this turned out so cartoonish.

Tangle Patterns: Gelijoy

IAST challenge #302 - a milestone birthday for Adele, the founder of this weekly challenge. IAST is now celebrating its 6th year and many of us tanglers double cross our fingers Adele will have many more IAST birthdays to celebrate.

At first my tile was simple, flat, not celebratory enough. So I dashed to the next stationary shop and bought a glitter glue tube, hoping the shine will give the tile that lift up I was looking for. Unfortunately, to bring out the glitter I had to go to a dark spot in my house and use the flash feature on my mobile camera app and now it is...not as I thought it would be. Well...

Tangle Patterns: Decoo, Firecracker, Jonqal, Joy

With glitter

I was so caught up in the 100DayProject that I had no power left to even look at Summer Tangles 2019 when it started just a few days before the 100DayProject ended. Now also this project is ending its completion and I could not not do at least ONE tile. So here my contribution for August 28 and the tangle 8C. I added Indy-Rella and Pokeleaf.

Tangle Patterns: 8C, Indy-Rella, Pokeleaf

Inspired by...Doo Dah. I put it into a wonky grid and thickened the parallel lines. Now it looks more like Indy-Rella in a wonky grid. Well, it was worth a try. LOL

Tangle Pattern: Doo Dah

Inspired by...4C Rope. When pattern collection introduced the 4C Rope tangle step out they also listed a video How-To by Ellen Wolters. Somewhere at the beginning of her tutorial she omitted a step which she later corrected, but I thought her 'mistakes' looks really good and I will do it, too. So here my tile with Ellen Wolters; omission.

Tangle Pattern: 4C Rope

In her video she also includes another way to draw 4C Rope. I didn't care too much about the outcome, but decided I will find my own 'other' way. So on the below tile all I did was draw the first step (the little squares) instead of straight at a 45' angle.

Tangle Pattern: 4C Rope

And my 3rd 4C Rope monotangle tile is - you guessed it - in a wonky grid. As so often, drawing a grid tangle in a wonky grid doesn't always turn out better!

Tangle Pattern: 4C Rope

I couldn't get that 4C Rope tangle out of my mind.....

Tangle Pattern: 4C Rope

....and a version potpourri of it.

Tangle Pattern: 4C Rope

Finally the last 4C Rope! 

Tangle Pattern: 4C Rope

Square One week of August 23-29 featuring the tangle Wunderwall - or is it?
"Isn't this fragment D1?"
"No, it's Wunderwall, it has circles, D1 has dots."
"Well then, what about Hemp? It looks exactly like the tangle Hemp."
"NO! No, no. Hemp's step out, although one of its options has circles, is drawn with the paper turned 90'. So Wunderwall can't be Hemp."
"Hmm, looks like fragment D1 and/or Hemp to me!"
"Go get your glasses, and while you are at it stop being so sarc...."
"I am NOT sarcastic!!! And Wunderwall IS D1 and/or Hemp! Full Stop!"

Jeez...who cares! 

Tangle Pattern: Wunderwall

So here my tile inspired by Wunderwall, fragment D1, and Hemp...definitely Hemp.

Tangle Patterns: Fragment D1, Hemp, Wunderwall

The 'Dead and Dying Grass' Solution

My garden is small with lots of plants with low hanging leaves that provide shade and cool during those hot tropical days of which there are aplenty here in Thailand. However, my grass never appreciated the shade and kept dying leaving me with just dirt. So recently, after yet another new planting kicked the can, I decided a more permanent solution has to be applied... STONES! And thus it was: the dead and dying grass came out👎🏻and super beautiful terracotta/brownish colored stones came in 👍🏻. Perfect!

From the front

From the side

With above project under the hood I made my new project to be the bathroom, the grout in the shower to be more precise, an eye-sore par excellence. Armed with brush and white acrylic paint I started to apply the paint to the grout and WOW! what a difference!!! As wonderful as the result turned out to be I am no avid grout painter; I can do about an hour before I get bored. In order to not 'lose' focus and strong will I pledged to myself that I will spend an hour every day until this project is done (unless something more pressing pops up...please).

Acrylic painted grout on left - eye-sore on the right

Animal Happy Day

Would you deliberately put a band of thumb tacks around each of the tires of your company car and watch how they gradually damage the tires until you can't use the car anymore and have to buy new tires? No, of course not, you wouldn't do that. That is why I never understand how owners of working animals deliberately torture their 'tools' to the point where the animals break down and in many cases die. Wouldn't you think it is in the owners' interest to treat these animal as best they can so it will be strong, lasts for a long time, and brings maximum results? This video is such a case of "ME THINKING". Luckily, and thanks to the team of Animal Aid Unlimited, India, this donkey's working days are over and all that is asked of him now is to be happy and enjoy life. Well done, AAU-team.



And a last short, 43 second, funny one....You can't fool little owls. Love it!!!

Nowadays, C.O. being inside my house sleeping has 'unfortunately' become an only too familiar sight. 

C.O., the Intruder

To all and everyone visiting...Have a great weekend!

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Refresher 201, 202; IAST 298; Square One; 100DayProject

After a long mental fight with myself I decided to continue with Linda Farmer's Refresher prompts, project, whatever you want to call it. After all I spent a lot of time catching up with all "before my Zentangle time" published Refreshers and doing one now every 2-3 weeks doesn't sound so bad. So here is Refresher #201 with the tangles Noom, Trilad, PS23, Firecracker, and Agni.

Tangle Patterns: Noom, Trilad, PS23, Firecracker, Agni

Refresher #202 featuring tangles Fengle, Hemp, M-Anning, Trisnail, and Oddbalz.

Tangle Patterns: Fengle, Hemp, M-Anning, Trisnail, Oddbalz

Square One week June 14-20 with Worms.

Tangle Pattern: Worms

Square One week June 21-27 with main tangle Snag and some Sez. Snag reminded me of the hands on a clock, which in turn reminded me of an image I saw some time ago of a broken clock. One thing let to the other.

Well, it turned out a bit too busy and too balanced. Less Sez would have been more.

Tangle Patterns: Snag, Sez

Square One week July 12-18 with Windmill and....

Tangle Pattern: Windmill

...another Windmill, a more organic Windmill.

Tangle Pattern: Windmill

Square One week July 19-25 with Anibal.

Tangle Patterns: Anibal

Helen Williams published a new tangle called SweetHeart recently and, being in a trumped up tangle mood, had to try it not asap but instantly. I am glad though that I watched her little instruction video only viable on her site (not the email as she often mentions) because I initially started it all wrong - of course - drawing the tangle line by line instead of a continuous flow. At first, it was a bit tricky (for me), but I eventually mastered her flow.

Tangle Pattern: SweetHeart in a wonky grid

Inspired by...Zonked, a prompt for the 100DayProject on day July 4. Although Zonked was never a tangle on my fav list, I got hooked.

From Aura-Leah to Aura-Leah Zonked, over Zonked in Hectagons, to Zonked wonky Swimsuit.

Tangle Pattern: Inspired by...Zonked

Another prompt I had to look deeper into is Demi for day July 5, but I altered the Demi squares to Demi triangles - or to a square fragment (which likely already exists).

Tangle Pattern: Demi Triangles

IAST challenge #298 with tangles Doo Dah and Kitl.

Tangle Patterns: Doo Dah, Kitl

My 100DayProject titled...

*** 1Day1Tangle1Tile 2019 ***

We are taking the last few days in this year's 100DayProject and I don't lie when I say that I am glad it is over and done with. I won't complain. There were certainly days I enjoyed drawing the prompts for my 1Day1Tile1Tamgle tiles, but they were balanced by times I fret about them and it had nothing to do with the tangles. I realize now how long 100 days really are. The question remains though: will I remember next year?

So here the last 8 groups of 4.

Group 18 June 9: Ok-Rah, June 10: Nouvart, June 11: Sonnenband, June 12: Good Joss.

Tangle Patterns: Ok-Rah, Nouvart, Sonnenband, Good Joss

Group 19 June 13: Fandango, June 14: Z-Trik, June 15: Sea Wave, June 16: Sails.

Tangle Patterns: Fandango, Z-Trik, Sea Wave, Sails

Group 20 June 17: Taiga, June 18: Y-Full Power, June 19: Bask-It, June 20: Arukas.

Tangle Patterns: Taiga, Y-Full Power, Bask-It, Arukas

Group 21 June 21: Twile (Stoic), June 22: Meshmerize, June 23: Ginili, June 24: Jud.

Tangle Patterns: Twile (Stoic), Meshmerize, Ginili, Jud

Group 22 Verve, June 26: Cruffle, June 27: Noom, June 28: Borbs.

Verve as a bouquet; Cruffle ovals; Noom squared; and Borbs as seeds for something to grow out of.

Tangle Patterns: Verve,  Cruffle,  Noom,  Borbs

Group 23 June 29: Cirque, June 30: Brax, July 1: Flontrast, July 2: Zimba.

Tangle Patterns: Cirque, Brax, Flontrast, Zimba

Group 24 Vano, July 4: Zonked, July 5: Demi, July 6: Sanaura.

Tangle Patterns: 

Group 25 July 7: Tissoooh, July 8: Ubud, July 9: Sistar, July 10: Snugz.

Tissoooh - sorry for the color of the tile, but... I drew 2 Tissooohs on top of each other and wound two arms of the lower bigger Tissoooh onto the upper smaller Tissoooh. Or at least, that was the idea of it. Sistar as a star - yeap, like that one; and Snugz got doubled.

Tangle Patterns: 

Now that I have reached the finishing line for the 100DayProject 2019 and didn't skip a day/tangle prompt I feel like having accomplished something. 100DayProject 2020 today looks a lot more appealing then a few days ago when I started with this post. We will see...

A case of stupidity or tenacity. 

Cleaning up my 100DayProject folder I found the tile original meant for the May 28 prompt Tut. At the time I wasn't happy with the outcome because it didn't look like what I had in mind, drawing Tut in 3 Gourdgeous shapes. I couldn't see the shapes so I abandoned the tile. Now, almost 2 months later, I shake my head, wondering about my sanity: Who cares about the shape, string or image I have in mind??!!

This happened a few times during the 100 days, but this was the most extreme case. However, tenacity is my middle name and I finally got my Gourdgeous shapes filled with Tut onto my present tangle tiles journal cover. That is what I had in mind.

Tangle Pattern: Tut 

On journal cover.

Tangle Pattern: Tut 

Animal Happy Day

Can you spot the big cat? I looked and looked, with glasses on top of magnifying glasses, and couldn't spot it. So if you have the same problem, click here. I was relieved when I found out this is not a case of old age, but fantastic camouflage.

Good news also on my latest very shy stray cat project. After my initial try to get the cat to the vet in a basket where he escaped out of before we were even in the car, I had to acclimated him to the basket again. Had to let him understand that the basket is friendly, so I placed food into the basket.

It still took a few days/weeks of that and me petting him until I dared the second attack. SUCCESS! I got him to the vet while all the way fighting to hold the roped tied basket lid down, picked him up 2 days later and gave him the name C.O. C for Clockwork (for his punctuality appearing for breakfast) and O for you guessed it, his fur color Orange.

For the time being O.C, remains our local shy stray cat and he knows where he can still get his daily meals. Below: Photogenic C.O. on his approach to get his daily dose of strokes.

Last week I didn't place a video because the blog post was already too long. So here is my animal video of the blog.

From Heartbreak to Happiness - yes, even dogs experience it.





And last but not least...

From my Garden
I have tons of cacti, but am extremely unlucky with flowers. So when I saw this one, I was over the moon. It only lives for about 8 hours, but there are already 2 new promising sprouts about to bloom - if I am lucky.

The next day...

Have a fantastic week and thanks for looking in.

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