Alphabet Challenge Letter D

This is my week! MadeByJoey's letter challenge #149 this week is for D. I like it and went right away to work on the tiles - well, in my case the yellow notepaper. I was lucky, too, that I had just finished tanglepatterns.com refresher #141, which includes Dicso, so I was warmed up.


This is my favorite of the two. I don't think I have ever used red in a tangle, leaning more towards less dominant shades, but had I not, maybe nobody would see the D. It is there.

Patterns: Dicso, Dwaveb, 'D'ipple, Dragonfly wing pattern

Black & White, my Second Thought, inspired by a drawing session that lasted well after midnight. Sometimes I just can't let go.

Patterns: Dicso, D-Vine

Update Jan 26

After I drew the two Ds I went back to my own challenge of doing all the refreshers on tanglepatterns.com site. I chose them randomly and presently in the works is #51. However, in the back of my mind I was thinking that I had broken my own 'alphabet challenge tradition'...I have no lowercase 'd' (and 'a'). So back to the D-drawing board it was and here it is.

Patterns: Dicso, Drobbles, Diamantbee

Link to next Alphabet Letter Challenge: E
Link to previous Alphabet Letter Challenge: C

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Alphabet Challenge Letter C

Here we go for the letter C using tangle pattern Cat-Kin. This time MadeByJoey made me work. I just couldn't get it done. The idea was in my head, but transferring it to paper was a real challenge, although I like Cat-Kin. Anyway, after several sketches with liberal use of the eraser and over several days and several copies... I still shake my head. Hope up for 'D'.


Here the first. Full of mistakes that in tangle are no mistakes.

Patterns:  Cat-Kin, Cadent, Croon

Here I tried to make it better

Patterns:  Cat-Kin, Cadent, Croon

Then I tried a lowercase 'C', hope for better results.

Patterns: Cat-Kin, Chainging, Curly-Q

And finally my chainging croissant..

Patterns: Cat-Kin, Chainging, Cornerz

Link to next Alphabet Letter Challenge: D
Link to previous Alphabet Letter Challenge: B

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Alphabet Challenge Letter B

It is 'B' time. MadeByJoey gave us the second letter in the alphabet for this week, challenge #147, with a pattern I hadn't done yet. It looks like Betweed, but is not Betweed, it could be Betweed, but no, it is not. It resembles a 2/3 Paradox, but no, it is not Paradox either... It is B-Twixt. Confusing, confusing.


This is my Capital letter 'B'....

Patterns:  B-Twixt and Beaded

...and this is my lowercase 'b'.

Patterns: B-Twixt and Beadlines

Link to next Alphabet Letter Challenge: C
Link to previous Alphabet Letter Challenge: A

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Alphabet Challenge Letter A

MadebyJoey's new challenge for 2017 is the Alphabet. I thought I give it a try and look how far I will be able to follow Joey. However, I already made a mistake. I misread her 'A' letter post and made my own 'A'-string (as allowed) , but also selected different 'A' patterns, completely ignoring the "A-Dalpha" pattern. Oh well, so I had to draw two 'A' letter tangles. Ha! I am already one tangle ahead.

This  is the culprit 'A'
I used the tangle patterns Akoya, Amaze and Autumnal

Here the real 'A' with the A-Dalpha pattern

This was actually just a draft, but I didn't have the heart to trash it, so I put some last touches to it.

Patterns used: A-Dalpha and Asterix.

These are 'A's I made in May 2016 when I came along the beautiful pattern 'Kiss' by Katie Booth. Skip over to tanglepatterns.com for the steps.

Pattern: Kiss

And in color

Patterns: Kiss, Chillon, Tipple, Fescue, Flux

Update 30 January 2017: Finally, I caught up with my tradition to draw a capital letter tile and a lowercase tile for the same challenge. Lowercase 'a', here we go.

Patterns: A-Dalpha, Arc Flower, Arcocuatro

Link to next Alphabet Letter Challenge: B

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December 2016 Refreshers

This month I am celebrating my 1st Tangle Anniversary. I guess I can say I am hooked and I am looking forward to many more tangle anniversaries.

Having done a few tangle tiles using a string I noticed that I prefer to work without one. I much rather just look at the patterns and then try to combine them on the tile to make some design sense.

I was busy (tangling) and succeeded in getting 8 refreshers done this month.

Linda Farmer's Refresher #10

Patterns: Jambalee, Limpitz, Wired, Arrowheads, Hepmee

Linda Farmer's Refresher #14

Patterns: Half Onions, Finery, Zanella, Pinwheels, Paradox

Linda Farmer's Refresher #79

Patterns: 8's, Paradox, Kandy Ribnz, Kitchener, Japan Diamond

Linda Farmer's Refresher #78

Patterns: Crescent Moon, Tadpoles, Quare, Batch, Loopy

Linda Farmer's Refresher #143

Patterns: Verdigogh, Brrrst, Buttacup, Kay-Tee, Hamail

Linda Farmer's Refresher #30

Patterns: Hibred, Partay, rack Lighting, 2-n-5, Scrawlz

Linda Farmer's Refresher #32

Patterns: Diamonds & Squares, Hurry, Fricle, Tuftid, Screen

Linda Farmer's Refresher #113

Patterns: Indy-Rella, Roscoe, Kitl, Meringue, A-Fog

Click on the image below to visit all the Refreshers I have done thus far in my flickr album.

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November 2016 Refreshers

I randomly pick refresher numbers from Linda Farmer's website tanglepatterns.com to learn tangle patterns. Saves me the headache of which of the tons of patterns I should choose and combine for my next tile.


Linda Farmer's Refresher #36

There are days, weeks or even a whole month when the visions in your head to not reflect on paper. November 2016 was the month for me. However, that did not deter me and I kept on drawing my refreshers, learning new patterns. In the end, I triumphed.

Patterns: Chainging, Gohtic, Canard, Prestwood, Bumps

Linda Farmer's Refresher #29

Patterns: Swarm, Rose, LaBel, Semaphore, Cat-Kin
String #175

Linda Farmer's Refresher #31

Patterns: Pendrills, Bateek, Fur Balls, Pegs, Zuan Shi
String: #101

Click on the image below to visit all the Refreshers I have done thus far in my flickr album.

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Circle Challenge 135

This is my contribution to MadeByJoey's weekly challenge # 135. Loved every bit of it. Thanks Joey.

String: 3 circles; Patterns Dicso, Drogon, MSST

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September 2016 Refreshers

A few tangle refresher tiles I drew in September 2016. The refreshers can be found on the Tangle Pattern website. I collect all my refresher tiles in my flickr Refresher Zentangles album.

Tangle Refresher  #84

Patterns: IX, Owlz, Clove, Nvelope, 4 Corners

Tangle Refresher #116

Patterns: Ing, Farling, (O), Wud, Jasmin
plus extra Cattails

Tangle Refresher #95

Patterns: Hurry, Telis, Boo*Kee, Tips, Knot Rickz

Tangle Refresher #1

Patterns: Rain, Ahh, Punch, Fans (and Shuttle), Fescu, Unyun

Tangle Refresher #3

Patterns: Kofeforn, Bales, Rosewood, Squid, Flutter Pie

Click on the image below to visit all the Refreshers I have done thus far in my flickr album.

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August 2016 Refreshers

Refreshers from the Tanglepatterns website I made in August 2016.

Linda Farmer's Refresher #53.

Patterns: Beelight, C-Scape, Charlie, LinQ, Ving

Linda Farmer's Refresher #47.

Patterns: Finery, MI2, Stone Necklace, Itsy Twisty, Plaited

Click on the image below to visit all the Refreshers I have done thus far in my flickr album.

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August 2016

These are my more worthy tangle tiles I created in August 2016.

Playing around with the pattern 63Y created by Hsin-Ya Hsu.

Patterns: 63Y, Flux, Florz, Antidots - small ones   (:

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