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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Autangle 2025; Monotangle Mondays; 7F5R; Autangle's OrgTangle 2025; Refresher 279 & 280; Video tut; Inspired by...

My first general post in the year 2026. May you all prosper, be healthy and most of all be Happy!

Autangle Series #4, 2025

Day 10, September 19 - Birdy, Foundabout, Flora Magic

Tangle Patterns: Birdy, Foundabout, Flora Magic

♻️ Day 11, September 21 - Maryshel, Yumemi

Tangle Patterns: Maryshel, Yumemi

another "Day 11, September 21 - Maryshel, Yumemi" just for fun, but also because I wasn't so happy with my first version.

Tangle Patterns: Maryshel, Yumemi

Monotangle Mondays by Zen Gulf Cafe 2025

Stuck in the previous year...the last Monotangle Monday for a while. Zen Gulf Cafe interrupted the Series with the challenge ZMSF (Zen Magical Spring Festival) to keep the interest going. 

December 29 - Braze

Tangle Pattern: Braze

7F5R Tuesday Tangle of the Day...

...the last one before January's A Fragment of your Imagination 2026. We should be starting again in February.

♻️ December 23 - Hearty Wyfore on a roll with Flux, a Mooka, a Henna Drum, and Tipple.

This is the washed paper tile I mentioned in my December post (Refresher #278). A lot easier to draw on, but WOW!, what a difference in color.

Tangle Patterns: Hearty Wyfore, Flux, Mooka, Henna Drum, Tipple

(Refresher #278)

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

December 31 - Popri (Stepout06)

Tangle Pattern: Popri

January 15 - Chaperon (Stepout07)

Tangle Pattern: Chaperon

Refreshers

Refresher #279, published December 12 last year, with tangles Pangea, Blanes, Panepinto, Fluxism, and Heartlock.

Tangle Patterns: Pangea, Blanes, Panepinto, Fluxism, Heartlock

Refresher # 280 with tangles Pouyang, Noodle, Blind Membranat, Wooti, and Printen

Tangle Patterns: Pouyang, Noodle, Blind Membranart, Wooti, Printen

Video tutorial

Tangle Tuesday Ep: 2 by Alison Russell Art with tangle Medo.

Jeez, I can't remember when I started this tile, but it was a loooong time ago. Today, I am really glad I finished it.

Tangle Patterns: Medo

Inspired by...

...drawing a multi tangle tile to produce a big mess. Actually this is only half the truth. I bought some new tiles and had to try them out (this tile was on the back burner as well - with good reason). As for the tile quality: good for water-coloring; bad for using color pencil and shading. Above two light blue Org Tangles were drawn on the same tiles.

Tangle Patterns: Toodles, Pokeroot, Crescent Moon, etc

Time to Kill...

...survived the cross-over into 2026 and will stay with us for a while longer. So January 2026 sports a new set of 6 brainteasers you may or may not figure them out. HowEver! Don't fret! The solution is listed at the very bottom of this post in the smallest font possible so you don't inadvertently spoil your attempt at the teasers. Good luck.

Animal Happy Day

I would not show this video if it ended badly...

Thank you very much for visiting 

my post and enjoy the weekend.

Solution to the January Brainteaser set

1 – Headquarters

2 – Blanket

3 – Cut corners

4 – Cocktail

5 – Tennis shoes

6 – Summary

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Square One; Refresher 226 - 228; Two new Tangles; Inspired by...; 7 Forests 5 Rivers

Square One

Square One July 30 to August 5 featuring the tangle Aleuba. I added my new tangle Condor and a bit of I-Wings (see stepouts below).

Tangle Patterns: Aleuba, Condor, I-Wings

Square One August 6-12 is Halfsies. I like Halfsies enough to sit a bit longer with it and look what I could do with it. Hence below my real Square One tile with an adaptation of Halfsies. 

Tangle Pattern: Halfsies 

Square One August 20-26 featuring Double Marasu. I added Joki and 2 new tangles I found on Annett Ruempler's website called Blattwerk and Bliili. Click on the names for stepouts. I also encourage you to have a look at all her other tangles if you don't already are familiar with them. It is worth your while, believe me.

Tangle Patterns: Double Marasu, Blattwerk, Bliili, Joki

Square One September 3-9 featuring the tangle Damsel Leaf.

Tangle Patterns: Damsel Leaf, Beadlines

Damsel Leaf bouquet on blue and as a chain and dancer.

Tangle Patterns: Damsel Leaf, Doo Dah

Refreshers

Refresher #226 with tangles Swarm, XO, Batiki, El-Oh-El, and Plad.

Tangle Patterns: Swarm, XO, Batiki, El-Oh-El, and Plad

Refresher #227 with tangles Tagh, Tonga, Boucle, Crezendo, 1+1.

Tangle Patterns: Tagh, Tonga, Boucle, Crezendo, 1+1

Refresher #228 with tangles Xircus, Sweet 101, Caracole, Zara, Ila

Tangle Patterns: Xircus, Sweet 101, Caracole, Zara, Ila

7F5R

7F5R's Tuesday Tea and Tangle September 7th featuring Y-Knot. Since everything is straight, the Fortnightly Theme September week 1 and 2 applies, too: Straight lines string.

Tangle Pattern: Y-Knot

My 2 New Tangles...

...I-Wings step out and...

Tangle Pattern: I-Wings Stepout

...Condor step out

Tangle Pattern: Condor stepout

My new tangle I-Wings with Kalanchoe and...

Tangle Patterns: I-Wings, Kalanchoe

I-Wings with Palrevo, Blattwerk and Fescu.

Tangle Patterns: I-Wings, Palrevo, Blattwerk, Fescu

Two tiles with my new tangle Condor in a mandala setting. Although they look alike, with the first one I overlapped Condor slightly.

Tangle Patterns: Condor with I-Wings in the corners

Tangle Pattern: Condor

Combining my new tangles Condor and I-Wings.

Tangle Patterns: Condor, I-Wings

Last Condor tile. 

Tangle Patterns: Condor, MaryHill, Mooka, Sand Swirl

Inspired by...

...some new tangles that were published recently and some old ones I just felt I needed to draw.      

> Lean To

Tangle Pattern: Lean To

> Caro-Mingle, with Condor.

Tangle Patterns: Caro-Mingle, Condor

> Paradox and Nzeppel, two old but very popular tangles.

Tangle Patterns: Paradox and Nzeppel

> Aunt Flower

Tangle Pattern: Aunt Flower

> Kalanchoe

Tangle Pattern: Kalanchoe

> Mystery...quite an old tangle with its creator unknown. But Suzanne Mitchell was kind enough to draw the stepout. Here is the original design idea.... 

...and here a tangleation.

Tangle Pattern: Mystery

> Sun is yet another tangle I altered. Sun taken literally as a sun with overlapping 'rays'...

Tangle Pattern: Sun

...and Sun with overlapping leaves on  both sides of the stem. Added tangles are Fleurie, Ruutz, Joki and Tipple. 

Tangle Patterns: Sun, Fleurie, Joki, Ruutz, Tipple

> Sheaff 

Tangle Pattern: Sheaff

> TripleX - and an abstract version of it. 

Tangle Pattern: TripleX

Inspired by Zentangle Artists' Video Tutorials

It doesn't have to be complicated all the time and thus I gave this video tutorial by Tangle and Inspire a go. The tangles applied are Aki-Chain and Ayes. I added Fescu with a Ayes-leaf collars.

Tangle Patterns: Aki-Chain, Ayes

Lastly a tile I made based on the fragment B015. Recognizable fillers: Sez and Betweed.

Tangle Pattern: Fragment B015

From My Garden

I saw these leaves in an abandoned lot and knew I had to dig some out and adopt them into my garden family...

...and they thanked me with this gorgeous spoon-like flower that sprung out at the base. 

Animal Happy Day

If at first glance it looks bad...take another.
What I like on Animal Aid Unlimited in India are the touching words near the end of every video. 

And yet another animal rescue video I couldn't resist placing. It is an older one and a bit longer. When I watched it the first time years ago I was sitting at the edge of my seat crossing my fingers hoping all goes well. I was still sitting at the edge of my seat when I watched it again a few days ago...        

C.O., my cat, taking a nap at his very own home entry/exit, my bedroom window. Here in Thailand we have mosquito netting in front of windows and doors. I have to leave my bedroom netting open so C.O. can enter. One day I accidentally closed them... Exactly, C.O. had no trouble shred...I mean opening them. He can be glad my Swiss blood isn't appreciated by Thai mosquitos. 

This post has turned out to be a bit long due to my laziness for posting. I'd rather draw tiles than clean up blog posts. So if you never make it to down here....I am not insulted. On the other hand, if you do make it down here I hope you have had time to watch the 2 animal videos despite one being a bit long. They are both worth your time though, believe me. Meanwhile C.O. and I thank you for visiting. 

Meanwhile, stay tuned until my next - shorter - posting....

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