I call this new pattern Ticking because when shaded, it looks a bit like stitched fabric (to me anyway). It is really quite simple. Steps 2 and 3 can be combined but I do them separately so that I can make the space divisions as even as possible. It helps if I have a starting point. I tend to get carried away with lines if I don't start from a divided location. It's a little like Bales at the start and you can start with a grid or just make your ovals at even distances and go from there. I hope you like this one. I haven't seen a pattern like this out there in the Zentangle universe but if you have please let me know. Also: I had one heck of a time coming up with a name for this one. If there is another pattern named Ticking let me know and I'll rename it. I googled and didn't find one, but you know how inexact Google searches can be.

Reminds me of argyle patterns on socks. Let your imagination run wild with variations. -- Sent from my Palm Pixi

“I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.” Daniel BooneThe past few weeks have found me in a bit of a fog as I deal with the uncertainty around my health. I ju…

My husband brought me a tiny acorn. He said it was for tangling inspiration. Okay, here it is, Honey.

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One of my favorite things about tangling is how one thing often turns into something else, which turns into something kind of unexpected an...

This pattern was drawn in one of Geneviève Crabe's Tangle Organizers Layout #1. For a review, and a chance to win one of her Orga...

In January, I started to use Carol Ohl`s Zentangle calendar and challenged me to draw each day a tangle which is new to me / which I never used yet. I already reported about this project in previous blogpots. Among others, I use Linda Farmers website "tanglepatterns.com" to explore the brand new tangles and most of them I draw immediately. During the last month I especially like Spoolies, Puffy 8s, Soluna, Knightspeek, Wibble ... I have them all in my calendar. The day before yesterday I found the new tangle by Belgian CZT Ria Mattheussen, ZIMBA. I drew it the same evening and fell in love with it and with the pattern which inspired Ria for her tangle. So I played a bit around and tried some variations. At the end I found , that in my opinion I developed a new tangle!! I did not even think about it… I contacted Ria by E-Mail and showed her my idea. I told her that I would like to name the tangle „SIRI“. This are the first letters of our names Simone and Ria. Ria was excited as well and gave me the courage to draw a stepout of „SIRI“ and to publish it. Here it is: And here is the lat page of three days in my calendar , with the first try of Zimba and SIRI, competed today with Gottago by Lianne Woods.

This pattern was inspired by a carpet design at the Wildwood Golf and Country Club in Saskatoon. No, I just happened to be out there for an event last spring. :) country club carpet I can't claim credit for this brilliant method for obtaining a series of equilateral triangles. That goes to CZT Sandy Hunter and her drawing instructions for Wunderwall (a beautiful tangle pattern). Note that the first set of dots indicate rectangles, not squares. Here's the how-to for Wildwood: Then embellish. To be honest, having drawn these instructions, I actually find it easier to do each triangle individually, as in the lower right corners. I found that if the dots get lost among the lines, the wavy lines can become confusing. Here are a couple of tiles using Wildwood. Tangles: Camelia, Cruffle, Paradox, Tripoli, Wildwood Tangles: Black Pearlz, Coaster, D'Uni, Wildwood (3 varieties)

Application des spirales à la décoration Using spirals in decoration. Here is another page from an old French art magazine that I just love. Curvy, round, flowing patterns are my favorite in tangling so I was naturally drawn to this page. The original page was on tan paper printed with...

Today I want to introduce you to my latest tangle. It's been haunting me for quite a while, popping up in bits and pieces on many of my tiles. You can see - bands of it running through my twisted rope string tile - it edges Batumber on my grey tile - I use it to create a simple but favoured fill for Dreamcatcher, and it was the perfect choice to finish a Travelling Tangle sent to me by Elena Greer For a long time I thought it wasn't really enough in itself to class as a tangle. It has so many tangle-relatives, which it shares less or more characteristics with. To mind come Isochor, Indyrella, Barberpole, Marasu, Sugarcane, Starcrossed, Ticking and Kristillis - I'm sure you can think of more? All of these tangles particularly appeal to me, and all rely on those repeated curved lines for detail. But each has a particular initial shape which defines it and the detail lines are almost an afterthought. I wondered what would happen if the lines became the star of the show, and the structure merely the framework to hold them... And so Clob was born. Clob because the little lines work best for me when I draw them as I would a CLOsed Bracket! Of course the name might not suit you if you prefer to draw open brackets instead! I find the repetition of the Clob line so relaxing. Shading is so simple - you just pop a line of pencil into the valleys and smooth it out a bit, making it as dark or light as you like. And suddenly the tangle is transformed - it really seems to shine, and jump out from the paper. There are so many variations possible, depending on how you lay your initial lines. Parallel or not, straight or curving or spiral, closer together, far apart, laid over each other, or with gaps between. You can even embellish within the little brackets. And of course it plays well with other tangles. White on black - always the trickiest combination for me. Clob accompanied by Flux. Renaissance tangling - Clob dances with Henna Drum and Cat-Kin. Call it washed-out or call it dreamy? Blue and purple tones give a soft look to Clob with big bright Printemps. Last but not least the simple elegance of black and white. Abukas with bands of Clob and a handful of Fescu. Perhaps by now you can see why I think those little shiny lines deserve a tangle and a name all to themselves? I hope you have fun playing with Clob and I'd love, as always, to see your results. [Hopefully this pattern doesn't replicate any existing tangle I might have missed, in name or appearance, but please let me know if it does.]

On the third day of 3Zs Bijou gifted me some winsome bits of shattuck . . . . . . Fetching diva dancing and a tile full of tripoli. As you can see, Alfie is not going to be left out of these festivities! We're glad he joined in because he had the idea to gather all three day's tiles into a single mosaic Thanks, Alfie! Actually, Alfie just told us it was really Bijou's idea to make this mosaic. But it was easier for Alfie to climb onto our dining room table and rearrange the tiles. Alfie and Bijou are becoming quite the team and we never know what they're going to come up with next! -----+----- Thank you all for continuing to play with us on this fun tangle and mosaic! The hashtag for today's tile is: #3rddayof3zs To see all the guidelines for these 12 days, go here. Remember, we will give out a prize for one randomly chosen poster of each day's tiles on the app and also for one randomly chosen commenter on each day's blog post. And here is the stepout for shattuck: This stepout is a sample of what stepouts look like in our Zentangle Mosaic app. See you tomorrow! -----+----- P.S. Notice on Maria's tile (the middle one of the three) that some of the tripoli is done in pencil. You can see lots of examples of this on Zentangle Mosaic (for free). Just search on the hashtag: #GraphiteIsTheNewBlack

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Hi Sandy, I am new to Zentangle and am working my way through the tangles in the book, "Joy of Zentangle". I am looking at your tangle called Flora. In the book it is illustrated within a small square and in the last square the petals are cut off by the edges of the square. I can't find any example of this tangle used in any of the illustrations in the book and I am confused as to what to do with it. Is it put together in a ribbon or is it used as one design to fill a space without repeating? Can you give me some help with this or point me in the direction of some Zentangles using this pattern? Many thanks for your help and for sharing your beautiful work. Joan * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Hi Joan, I hope this answers your questions about the tangle in The Joy Of Zentangle book. First, that book was assembled by the publisher by taking random chunks out of other books. If you notice, the "tip" on Flora's page doesn't seem relevant? Here is the original page, from my book Totally Tangled, with the steps and examples for Flora. Flora can be used as part of Bauer. Makes more sense, right? Cheers, Sandy * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Got it! Thanks so much for getting back to me, Sandra. I noticed the discrepancies with other tangles as well. Gonna order your Totally Tangled book. ‎ :) Joan * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * NOTE: If you are curious about the "Exercise" on the Joy of Zentangle page above... here is the page where the tip originally came from... ... it is from another of my books - Yoga for Your Brain. The original page is showing how to use the trees, fence posts, etc that you see around you, as tangle inspiration. Context makes a difference. Joy of Zentangle is a great introduction to tangling and talks about the philosophy and stuff - which my books don't really cover. My focus has always been more on the creative confidence aspects of tangling. Lately it has been a bit ...odd... to have to explain to people (and reviewers) that Totally Tangled and Yoga For Your Brain came out BEFORE Joy of Zentangle - not the other way around. So if you are new to tangling, I encourage you to take a look at some of the "older" books too. And please DO let me know if you have questions or would like me to explain other topics - I have had some requests to do some more little videos explaining certain tangles. Anything else?

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I work best when I'm (properly caffeinated and) avoiding something else I should be doing. Yesterday, this room was a disaster. Major upheaval going on in here. I've got at least a couple of hours of work left to do in it, so naturally, I'm diving into something I would rather be doing, and avoiding the mess altogether. There's just something about procrastination that gets my creativity crankin'. This is a really rewarding artistic exercise for me, taking tangle patterns I already know and kneading/squishing them into something new. The mission: pick two patterns, adopt at least one element from each, and make a new pattern out of the pieces. Like a lot of things I post on my blog, these tangle patterns were more of an exercise in creativity than relaxation. As far as true Zentangle patterns go, these variations are probably not repetitive enough to get fully submerged in the zen. I dunno... maybe I could still lose myself in them for a while. Or if all else fails, I'm pretty sure I could just lose myself in this room. God knows I haven't seen my desk in weeks. Pardon the randomness of the pattern layouts; this post has been in the making for a looong time. • ❃ • ❋ • ❁ • ✿ • ✽ • ❀ • Tangle remix no. 1: Eylet & Ribbon (Lori Howe) & Crescent Moon (Zentangle) Tangle remix no. 2: Assunta (Zentangle) & Paizel (Angie Vangalis, CZT) Tangle remix no. 3: Huggins (Zentangle) & Hypnotic (Elena Hadzijaneva) Tangle remix no. 4: Afterglo (Carole Ohl, CZT) & Cadent (Zentangle) Tangle remix no. 5: Assunta (Zentangle) & Paradox (Zentangle) Tangle remix no. 6: W2 (Zentangle) & Dansk (Margaret Bremner) Author's note: As much as I love the above remix, it's not technically correct. You can go here to see what Dansk is *supposed* to look like. Tangle remix no. 7: Fleuri (Genevieve Crabe) & Veezley (mine) Tangle remix no. 8: Indy-Rella (Zentangle) & Joy (Joyce Block, CZT) Tangle remix no. 9: Sanibelle (Tricia Faraone) & Mumsy (Sandy Steen Bartholomew) And last but not least...Tangle remix no. 10, my FAVE: The basic shape/flow of Prestwood, aura'ed to the nth degree like Cruffle. I love this pattern because it's curvy and flowy, and has natural shading even before the pencil comes along. All of those converging lines naturally darken the parts that would be shaded anyway. Wiiin. The official how-to: Some tips for a perfect Puffle: • Begin and end every inner aura at the same point within each section, down in the 'valley' where all the lines converge. • Sometimes closing the shapes all the way makes that first outline skew a little bit too far in one direction or another. A couple of 'lobes' can always be added to the next section to compensate, as you can see in the examples above. • When you draw that first continuous outline, close the loops as much as possible. The more open that space is, the harder it is to add in the auras so they look right: • As with Cruffle, the step that most determines whether your pattern will look right is the FIRST loop inside the initial outline (shown below in pink). If there is an evenly-spaced gap between the first outline and that first loop all the way around the curve, the rest of the pattern will look fine. Getting that first aura right is like using auto-tune for this tangle (only with less cheating!). Notice that the middles (the last stroke) are not even or perfect, but it doesn't matter because that gap in between the initial outline and the first aura within it are evenly spaced. • ❃ • ❋ • ❁ • ✿ • ✽ • ❀ • Here are my responses to the challenges you left me in the comments: Virginia's was a tough one... ...so I faked it. :oD And here we have Mooka on a stick. This is me reporting live from my couch... sorry this isn't scanned in like it should be. Been sick the last few days, and my camera phone was just so much closer than my scanner. (I'm on antibiotics, and they make me lazy.) Thanks for posting these challenges for me... they were really fun! Here's an updated version of Purk vs. Squid WITH pencil guides... Purk looks infinitely better when you're working within a shape and not just drawing it freeform (like the one above). • ❃ • ❋ • ❁ • ✿ • ✽ • ❀ • come visit me here!

My first attempt with sepia. Combining challenge 109 and 110,

A4 - collected from various sources

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I'm feeling share-y today, so you get two tangle patterns for the price of none! Kit @ Dreamscribe Designs turned me onto a book "The Great Book of Celtic Patterns" and three pages in I had to stop and create a pattern.

This is a bit similar to another pattern but with a different kind of knot.

This tangle came from a short wall at a neighbor's property down the street from me.

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This was drawn in one of Geneviève Crabe's Tangle Organizers. You can find out more at her blog. Although, I've shown this as border, the Tri-me tips work almost any place that you have a regular indentation. Just one set of Tri-me tips won't add a lot (though it can help), but if you have a pattern with a regular in and out flow, adding those three little tear-drop shapes can add an eye-catching delicacy.

I see things all the time that give me ideas for tangle patterns.

Once again, The Phrontistery has given me the title for my tangle. I'm stretching it--Weequash means in the dark, as in stumbling around in the dark. I admit it. I saw the word, while looking for something that meant light, fell in love with it, and had (HAD) to use it! This tangle makes me think of a chandelier or fancy lamp so it prevents anyone from weequashing around in the dark, lol! For variation, you could stop at step 4, or you could add another tangle, such as Ignite, in the circles, or, as I did in the example (Atlantis-Far Beneath the Ocean.), you could use auras around the whole tangle.

This is an article about my Inktober Tangles experience in 2023. Lots of great Zentangle patterns by founders Maria Thomas and Rick Roberts and well as many other Zentangle artists.

Come Ride the Tangle Pattern Wave with Me! I’m adding another pattern to the mix today. This one is called Inwave – because it’s wave-like shapes inside an aura. Some of the dra…