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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Monotangle Mondays' and 7F5R's Weeklies; AuTangle's Series 4 and AuTangle's OrgTangle 2025; Refresher 276

Monotangle Mondays by Zen Gulf Cafe

September 29 - Coofia. 

We were challenged to draw variations of Coofia...so I did. Instead of a Fescu base, I used a rough idea of the tangle Trigue and added Trigue as an offspring.

Tangle Patterns: Coofia, Trigue

October 6 - Emingle

Tangle Pattern: Emingle

October 13 - Fife. Not much thought went into this tile. It is a quicky.

Tangle Pattern: Fife

October 20 - Gust

Tangle Pattern: Gust

October 27 - Isochor.

Isochor is a very old tangle and from my search in my website 'database', I only drew it once before. Although this is MONOtangle Mondays, Fescu, Tipple and some dots can be added to embellish the feature tangle (according to my rule). 

Tangle Patterns: Isochor, Fescu, Tipple

7F5R Tuesday Tangle of the Day

September 30 -2wenty2wo.

Let's just say: I did it. I might pick up the NomadZ version again, but then I will patiently wait until the fragment version will be in January's FYI 2026. Wanna bet? 😏
 

Tangle Pattern: 2wenty2wo

7F5R is running INKtober 2025 for the month of October.

Autangle's bi-monthly OrgTangle 4th Year, 2025

Every month on the 15th and 30th or 31st a new organic tangle is introduced. Starting with Stepout 01, published October 15th 2025, we have the tangle !ioni! running under the specific hashtags: 

#orgtangle2025stepout01 and #autangle2025stepout01

Other generic hashtags are: 

#autangle, #orgtangle, #autangle2025, #orgtangle2025

Tangle Pattern: !ioni!

Autangle Series 2025

This is a September challenge, 4th year, and the prompts are published every other day. For whatever reason I completely missed it. So it is Ketchup time.

Day 1, September 1 - Preejou and Twi6t.

Tangle Patterns: Preejou, Twi6t

Day 2, September 3 - X-Flower and Cosvis

Tangle Patterns: X-Flower, Cosvis

Day 3, September 5 - Coofia and Mosa

Tangle Patterns: Coofia, Mosa

Day 4, September 7 - Vhain and Runy

Tangle Patterns: Vhain, Runy

...to be continued in next post...

Refresher

Refresher #276 with tangles Fife, Dalaflow, Arco, Ibiscu, La-La-Lavendel

Tangle Patterns: Fife, Dalaflow, Arco, Ibiscu, La-La-Lavendel

Time to Kill

October's brainteasers. Solutions are added to the bottom of the page in tiny font so you, too, can figure out those clues before unintentionally reading them. 

Animal Happy Funny Day

I crossed out the happy because with some of the 'fails' I thought: Ouch! 🩹 that must have hurt. 

Greetings fromThailand and thank you for visiting my October post.

Coal enjoying a cool, overcast day.

Solutions to October's brainteasers:

1 - Cuba

2 - Eiffel Tower

3 - Supermarket

4 - Laundromat

5 - Angkor Wat

6 - Tunnel

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