Fleeting Time

Saturday, February 25, 2017

IAST Challenge 185

This week's IAST tangle challenge, #185, introduced me to 3 patterns I hadn't come across prior. They are Edgar and Flec - love them both - and Wibble. I don't know what to say or do for that matter. My pen just refused to wibble the way I wanted it to wibble and my mind must have been wibbling the whole time. Since wibble had to go on the tile I drew just ONE wibble. And that was even one wibble too much for me. Forgive me, tile, and my sincerest apologies to to Shawna Martin 'cause her illustration of the wibble pattern and wibble sample look absolutely amazing!

Patterns: Edgar, Flec, Wibble

Thursday, February 23, 2017

Alphabet Challenge Letter H

'H'ere we go. MadeByJoey's challenge #153 is all with H. H-string and Hollibaugh pattern with other H patterns (well, at least for me). This time I made it and actually got Joey's h-string working. However, as you will see below, I had to take some safety precautions.

But Here first my capital H tile. The new patterns I used are Hanni and Hoot and maybe you can even sense the joy I Had drawing it.

Letter H with Hollibaugh, Hanni and Hoot patterns

Patterns: Hollibaugh, Hanni, Hoot

And here Joey's string, the lowercase h. However, this one is all about Trudi’s H. When I checked out her medieval capital H tile I notice something spooky: hollibaugh was missing! I was sure she didn't forget it but something more sinister must have happened. Yes, her tile must have been attacked by space gargoyles hacking her Zentangle tile. You may not be aware – yet – but hacking our Zentangle tiles is their favorite past time closely followed by messing up Zentgangle ideas we have in our mind (I have a long history of those attacks). So I was clever and secured my hollibaugh by wrapping it tightly around boulders. However, when I returned from my coffee break I not only noticed that one of my boulders was almost depleted of hollibaugh, but some of the strings were still sliding off. And then the little feet... Hey, STOP!!!! Hollibaugh was running off all by itself (or brainwashed by those aliens??!!). My heart dropped. In fact, I got so angry; I fetched my hammer and some nails and nailed the h to my tile. Should henna drum ever run away, at least I have the string for proof of an h-tile.

So, all you tanglers out there, beware of hollibaugh (or space gargoyles!). It can grow feet and escape your tile any day, any time. Ask Trudi.

Letter h with Hollibaugh and Henna Drum pattern

Patterns: Hollibaugh, Henna Drum and nails to secure h

Link to next Alphabet Letter Challenge: I
Link to previous Alphabet Letter Challenge: G

Saturday, February 18, 2017

IAST Challenge 184

These are my two "It's a String Thing" challenge #184 tiles. I have a 3rd one sketched out on my drawing desk, but I was late - again - for sending something to Tickle to Tangle: deadline Saturday...today is Saturday.

The emphasis was on just one pattern, waybop by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, the creator of the Zentangle idea. I haven't had time practicing the new pattern, so if you cannot recognize waybop....

Personally, the tile is too crowded for me. I got carried away in my pattern drawing and when I looked up, I noticed my white spaces had flown out the window.

Patterns: Waybop, Henna Drum, Printemps, Florz, Poke Root, Vitruvius,
Tipple, Springkle, Fescu, Sedgling, Shattuck, Ginili, Quandary

With this tile waybop is hidden even more so! However, my negative space is back.

Patterns: Waybop, Flux, 2/3 Paradox, Mooka, Printemps,
Jetties, Tipple, Fescu

Friday, February 17, 2017

Alphabet Challenge Letter G

G-String. Yes, we have reached the alphabet string G in MadeByJoey's weekly challenge #152, and what a challenge it was for me. The first two were easy, but then I tried to do Joey homage and use her published challenge tile literally, after all, the motto still is "Finish My Tile" as I recall. And that was the point when things turned topsy-turvy. I did 3 tries and am not happy with either of them. Sorry, Joey, not your fault. I had something in mind with the pattern gottago and it didn't work out.

Here my lowercase g. Can you see the guck....I mean the duck? The new pattern for me was - besides gnarly - graf.

Patterns: Gnarly, Ginili, Graf

This is my gloomy G capital letter and the new pattern was gemma.

Patterns: Gnarly, Garlic Cloves, Gemma

Here my first disaster; the lowercase g looks like a bee. The new pattern I incorporated is G7.

Patterns: Gnarly, Gottago, G7

The second tragedy is my gourd g. Well, I had fun practicing the pattern gourdgeous and probably will practice it a bit more. Although I find it quite difficult to draw, somehow I like it.

Patterns: Gnarly, Gourdgeous, Gottago

....and finally my red calamity, ruin, misadventure tile... my failure par excellence. I didn't even bother to add a new pattern. Just finished with gottago and then gave up.

Patterns: Gnarly, Gottago

Link to next Alphabet Letter Challenge: F
Link to previous Alphabet Letter Challenge: H

Thursday, February 09, 2017

IAST Challenge 183

This is my second contribution to Adele Bruno's Tickle to Tangle weekly "It's A String Thing" challenge - #183. This week the motto is .... surprise, surprise....VALENTINE's day.

The challenges I follow and Linda Farmer's Tanglepatterns.com refreshers I do as a personal challenge on a weekly schedule keep me busy and I love every 'tile to tangle' of it. Thanks, Adele.

Patterns:Zenith, Caught

Then I tried to make lots of hearts on a brown tile using only a red pen....That turned out flat and boring. So I added some white and a bit of black to give it at least some contrast. I also changed the spike in Zenith to hearts and drew segments of Caught in the surrounding hearts.

Patterns:Zenith, Caught

Alphabet Challenge Letter F

This is my contribution to MadeByJoey's weekly Alphabet Challenge. We have reached letter F and, as is my custom, I made a capital and a lowercase 'F'.

I love learning new patterns and Joey with her weekly challenges gives me yet another opportunity to delve into an Internet search for patterns I haven't done yet. From the start of this challenge I committed myself to use at least ONE new pattern. In the F challenge the new patterns are fasad by Helena and fandango by Vicki Bassett.

Thanks, Joey!

So, here we go with the capital F letter...

Patterns: Festune, Fife, Fandango, Fescu

...and this is the lowercase f.

Patterns: Festune, Fasad, Fescu

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

Friday, February 03, 2017

IAST Challenge 182

This week's It's a String Thing challenge is all about hearts for the upcoming Valentine's Day. And this week I was actually early enough to send it in - my first contribution.

Patterns: Amore, LG, Opus (heavily fragmented)

Alphabet Challenge Letter E

MadeByJoey letter challenge #150 is all about the letter E. The required E-pattern is one I hadn't done yet, the organic El Prada.

My first try was my own lowercase 'e' string which turned out to have a stark resemblance to a whale. (If you ever have to draw a whale, draw a lowercase 'e'.) While I was sketching out the string and the patterns I thought of Lori at All Things Tangled and her bold but simple, clean, perfect, and outstanding style that always reminds me of "Less is sometimes More".

Patterns: El Prada, Elata

My second E completes my tradition of capital and lowercase letters.

Patterns: El Prada, E-Ivy

And then I honored Joey's 'e' string. However, I got so caught up in drawing all those little elf hats, I didn't notice that the string got almost lost in the background. Oh well.

Patterns: El Prada, Elfhats

Just when I was ready to upload this page I happened to come across a new E-pattern that grabbed my attention: EAXY by Nadine Roller in Koeln, Germany. On first look it seemed easy, but don't be fooled. My tip: follow her instructions to a T and don't try to use an eraser if you sketch the pattern before finalizing it on the tile.

Patterns: El Prada, Eaxy and an elephant head for the letter e

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

Monday, January 30, 2017

IAST Challenge 181

This is my very first Tickled To Tangle: "It's a String Thing" challenge tile, #181. I didn't send it in...I was a bit too late, but it was still fun doing it.

Patterns: Pozer, Puf, Flukes

January 2017 Refreshers

My personal tangle pattern learning challenge - going through all the refreshers on the tanglepatterns.com site, picking them randomly. This keeps away the headache of having to choose a new pattern, but leaves the slight ache of choosing which refresher to tackle.

Linda Farmer's refresher #114