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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Square One; Refresher 220; 7F5R Fortnightly; 100 Days of Zentangle; New Pattern Growing Betweed Star; Feb Frags and video Tuts I follow

Refreshers

Refresher #220 with tangle pack Festune, Wavlin, Tupuk, Tupi and Earjool. I glued some gold leaf onto the tile, but using the stick glue it is a bit difficult to aim the leaf into its proper place. 

Tangle Patterns: Festune, Wavlin, Tupuk, Tupi and Earjool

Square One & 7F5R Fortnightly Theme

Square One January 1-7 with tangle Tentoculous and 22-28 with Peacock. 7F5R Fortnightly Theme for January wweks 3-4 was "any 2 Squares".

Tangle Patterns: Tentoculous, Peacock

Square One January 29 to February 4th with Narfello. 

Tangle Pattern: Narfello

Square One Feb 5-11 week with tangle Schirmchen. To be more exact it is 4 Schirmchen and 4 half Schirmchen.

Tangle Pattern: Schrimchen

Schirmchen ist a German word where 'Schirm' means umbrella and 'chen', a suffix, by itself means nothing, but makes the subject (umbrella) small. So in other words we have here the tile Paper Cocktail Parasols.  

Tangle Pattern: Schrimchen

Square One Feb 12-18 week with tangle Harp with Sez, Fescu, leaves and Tipple.

Tangle Patterns: Harp, Fescu, Tipple, Sez

Square One Feb 19-25 featuring the tangle Onba and a lesson I learnt. It was the first time I used my black Glaze pen on a black tile, or on any tile for that matter, and already on the first stroke I was tempted to throw it. This is not for me. The pen is way too fat. Then I remembered what I learnt from doing those video tutorials: It might start looking bad/weird/unaccustomed, but keep doing and judge at the end. Needless to say, now I like the tile and it helped that I used the larger Phi tile.   

Tangle Pattern: Onba

100 Days of Zentangle

I missed the first 22 days of 100 Days of Zentangle, had no idea it was on, and then it took me a while to find the listing. So if you read this and also missed it, click here and it will lead you to The Tireless Tangler's YouTube channel where Cyndee Pelley adds a new tangle video for the next....until she reaches 100 days. 

Day 4 - Bloomerz

Tangle Pattern: Bloomerz

Day 5 - 4Giving

Tangle Pattern: 4Giving

Day 9 - Hugs

Tangle Pattern: Hugs

Day 15 - Elance

Tangle Pattern: Elance

Day 18 - Sand Swirl

Tangle Pattern: Sand Swirl

Day 25 -  Huggy Bear

Tangle Pattern: Huggy Bear

...to be continued...

Inspired by...

...the tangle Cyclamen. I found it while looking for tangle patterns I can turn into fragments for my February Fragments. 

Tangle Patterns: Cyclamen, Ruutz, Repeat Pattern Stacks

Inspired by Zentangle Artists' Video Tutorials

On this tile I followed Ria Matheussen's February video wherein she glues a cut white tile onto a black square to simulate a half black half white Zentangle tile. I always wanted to try this technique, but it needed the original inventor of this trick video tutorial to get me going. Tangles are Aloha, Sand Swirl, Sez, Marasu, and Pokeleaf.

Tangle Patterns: Aloha, Sand Swirl, Sez, Marasu, Pokeleaf

This Ravel tile looks a lot better when Shie Naritomi draws it here on her YouTube video. I admit, I didn't watch the whole video. was a bit in a hurry, and thus missed a few steps.

Tangle Patterns: Ravel with Mooka and Flux background

February 1-14 Fragments and Bijoux

1. Meringue, 2. D001, 3. 3Pli, 4. TearDralops, FS-Z004 (my fragment)

These 6 images are all done with my fragment FT-Z003  

1. Sintar (a combo of Sistar and Sindoo), 2. F016, 3. Tagh, 4 & 5 B015

1. Cadent (the idea came from Dawn's Back to Basic #7 lesson and I call it Cadent Tins), 2. Cadent Betweed, 3. my fragment FS-Z002, this fragment is drawn in one continuous line, 4 & 5 Parweed knightbridged and Parweed so called from Paradox and Betweed. The idea hereto came from an Indian artist who I unfortunately forgot to bookmark.

Here maybe new fragments shown above and in previous post:

FS-Z004, FS-Z005 (Meringue altered by a Tangler I forgot), FS-Z006 (Joki), FS-Z007 (Dealys), FS-Z008 (similar to F2), FS-Z009 Inspired by TearDralops, FS-Z010 a mixture of Sinstar and Sindoo, FT-Z0003, FT-Z009, FC-Z001 The Black Spider from previous post.

...to be continued...

New Pattern

My new Pattern "Growing Betweed Star", simple, in the Venus planets milky way system. Below 2nd image shows the Growing Betweed Star filled with Betweed lines and framed.

Tangle Pattern: Growing Betweed Star inVenus planets milky way

Tangle Pattern: Growing Betweed Star framed

Here the step out in color to Growing Betweed Star. The star has 1 long and 3 small spikes at 90 degree angles and the overlying stars are rotated at 45 degree angles. 

Tangle Pattern: Colored step out to Growing Betweed Star

Time to Kill

3rd publication of the more difficult quiz, puzzle 9-12. 

For newcomers, "SANDBOX" is the example of how to 'read' and solve the 4 following puzzles. The answers are at the bottom of this post in the smallest, tiniest font size just in case you accidentally scroll down and read what you didn't want to read just yet.

Puzzles 9-12. Good luck.

Animal Happy Days

Abused puppy Alice before...

...and after. 

Is this really the same dog? Watch her fantastic mind and body transformation in the video.

Today is a rainy day and CO does not want to get his paws wet. What a squeamish cat! Now say bye bye, CO till the next post. Thanks so much for visiting, visitor.

9. Condescending, 10. Scrambled eggs, 11. No two ways about it, 12. Line up in alphabetical order

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