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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DIVA 365, Summer Tangles, SQ1, Refresher 186

Summer Tangles 2018 Finale! I did it! Thank you, Yankee Tangler. Okay, you noticed, I missed 3 days (August 3 with Dingbatz August 23 with Zenribbon and August 31 with Macrotangle (work large). I may still do them at a later stage, but for now I lean back and enjoy a fine can of beer to celebrate this Finale and Shadow's Sweet 16 Birthday. He made it!

♻️ August 25 & 26 with Zenith and Snail tangles respectively and Florz. I am glad I disgarded my earlier tile with Zenith and two other tangles. I like this much better although it doesn't yet meet the standards for 'just a tiny taste of tangle', a phrase taken off one of Ragged Ray's old DIVA challenge pages, which I aimed for. (Recycled tile from packaging material.)

Tangle Patterns: Zenith, Snail, with a bit of Florz

August 28 - Celtic Knot with August 18 - Frames. I chose 'Frames' as a tangle this time and weaved it into the corners (last week I made frames). I think it is a great extension to this particular Celtic Knot. Mooka 'frames' the Knot/Frames combo.

Tangle Patterns: Celtic Knot with Frames at corners and Mooka

August 29 - Cayke (flowers) and September 3 - Spoolies

Tangle Patterns: Cayke, Spoolies, Tipple, Zingger

September 2 - Z-Trik with another double: Irradial. Garnishing: Jetties and some leafy pods.

Tangle Patterns: Z-Trik, Irradial, Jetties

August 22 & 24 with Arc Flower and Lollywimple, accompanied by Hexonu.

Tangle Patterns: Arc Flower, Lollywimple, Hexonu.

♻️ August 30 - DL Labyrinth and September 1 - Maryhill and Square One week  August 31 to September 6 with PeelD.(Recycled tile from packaging material.)

Tangle Patterns: DL Labyrinth, Maryhill, PeelD

Inspired by Summer Tangles September 1, a tiny tile with Maryhill and Florz-Starz

Tangle Patterns: Maryhill, Florz-Starz

Refresher #186 with Flukes, Amadou, Soluna, Knightspeek, Achy Breaky.

Tangle Patterns: Flukes, Amadou, Soluna, Knightspeek, Achy Breaky

DIVA challenges are back and there are a lot of tanglers all over the world that are jumping up and down with joy - I am one of them! Thanks Laura!

♻️ So DIVA challenge #365 runs under the theme "Back to Basics": a simple string with some of the first and most popular tangles. When I read the  tangle list I instantly missed Pokeroot, so I decided to do a Pokeroot and Pokeleaf string and to link the tangles one to the other. I admit, this tile looks spooky. Skull jumps to mind. (Recycled tile from packaging material.)

Tangle Patterns: Hollibaugh, Crescent Moon, Printemps, Keeko

String: Pokeroot and Pokeleaf

♻️ Square One week September 7 - 13: Bran. When I first saw Bran I didn't give it a second thought. I was certain I was going to skip this challenge. Friday evening, with all my chores done for the day, Bran jumped to mind again: 'Why not?'. I grabed a piece of copier paper and pen and looked whether I can come up with something I like and that looks vaguely similar to Bran. 2 minutes later I got it! And now I am glad I gave Bran a chance (and a new look). (Recycled packaging)

Tangle Patterns: Bran

Shadow had his 16th birthday yesterday. The Happy Birthday 'party' was pretty quiet with just him and me attending, but he didn't complain. I went to the market and bought 30 different fish balls for him. He loooooves those soft tasty snacks, so easy to eat. Bones have been off the treat list for quite a while. He still has left-overs, so we are celebrating 'Happy Birthday' a few days longer.

After the party it was right back to R&R....except for his stomach.

Animal Happy Day

I admit, this kind of videos I am not particulary fond of. No moving pictures only stills, and stills that repeat themselves over and over again and the storyteller's voice is robotic; still, I clicked on the white arrow - the title, it is somewhat intriguing - and I ended up with tears of joy and sadness.

Enjoy the weekend and any Birthday party you have coming up this week!

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IAST 257/8, Square One, Summer Tangles and a Refresher

Refresher #185 with Finery, Pezember, Lily-Eyes, Spoolies, Puffy 8's. For whatever reason, this refresher gave me some hard times and no sooner had I finally finished it, #186 came out today.

Tangle Patterns: Finery, Pezember, Lily-Eyes, Spoolies, Puffy 8's

IAST #258 with Antidots, Apacore and Afterglo. Antidots I textured into Apacore because I realized too late I had forgotten about it. Goodness me, I really have to do something about my forgetfulness....

Tangle Patterns: Antidots, Apacore, Afterglo (and Sez)

This is last week's IAST #257 with the new tangle Twilight. After having seen the Twilight tiles being submitted to Adele at Tickled to Tangle, I painfully noticed that I had missed the mark slightly. Hence I decided to make up for it and drew Twilight with one of my Summer Tangle projects...(see below)

Tangle Pattern: Twilight

Square One for the week of August 24 - August 30, 2018 - Hexonu

Tangle Pattern: Hexonu

And following this week's results for Summer Tangles 2018. My dates jump a bit all over the place. Many past dates are still not done, but I keep catching up.

August 27 - Strircles. Now this one was easy.

Tangle Pattern: Strircles

August 20 - Balo. Another tangle that is not looking like intended, but I gonna keep this one as a valid result because it represents 'fun' and 'disappointment' at the same time for me. Fun I had while drawing those leave loops and the circles and the whole thing; disappointed I was that the bookmark wasn't any longer.

Tangle Pattern: Balo

August 18th - Frames, here with climbing Mooka.

Tangle Pattern: Climbing Mooka for 'Frames'

Finally! Here the 'other Twilight tile'.

August 21st - Embedded Letter. If this doesn't make up for the too liberal IAST #257 Twilight, I don't know what will. The embedded letters are, you guessed it, SNG.

Tangle Patterns: Embedded Letters SNG with the real Twilight and Sez

Shadow - my grumpy (literally) and grumpy-looking old man.

Next week on Friday Shadow will be 16. Now I have no doubt that he will make it to the 7th. I had a health check done a week ago and the vet assured me that despite his skin problem, blindness, deafness, loss of smell, weakness in standing up, occasional disorientation (which he masters to a T by pumping into something familiar (everything is familiar) to get his bearing again) but with an appetite of a horse he is still strong. Fine, so he is leaking a bit, but even that is under control with self-made nappies. I thank Shadow every day for being a boy!

Both the photos are of today, Saturday September #1. However, the above took much longer to get as he is mostly dwelling in his second favorable pastime (micro-close to the first which is food, treats, and anything edible). Below he is sporting his latest leakage control outfit. Oh, he is such a sweety!

Shadow

Animal Very Happy Day

Check out this story about a truck driver who was allowed a looooong haul to bail out this cutey of a Pitty on death row. Kudos to driver, employer, and the shelter for its decision to hold execution! I just looooove stories like that.

Enjoy your weekend and be good to animals!

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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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