27th of February and string 240-242

February 2017 is soon gone. Looking backwards, it has been a busy month and my studio is full of things going on. The calendar is very often my start of the day, before I go into anything else. It wasn´t planned but now I have had three days with Waybop, a tangle I didn´t even like from the start....

The last one today is different from the two before, as I only used 6 "seeds". It looks more like a decal or something you put on the wall. I liked it though. The patterns except Waybop, are parts of Arukas, Pardox, Caviar (Lori Howe), and Mashed (Lori Byerly). there is one thing with the calendar I am not comfortable with. As I blacken bigger areas, the black doesn´t come out black and even, if I try to make more layers of black it will all be messed up. Now I have tried that, I will be more careful not doing so much black areas.

Now to the strings I have done´. The first one, string 240 (Anette Plaga Lodde):

A monotangle with Tri-O (Hanny Nura). This one started with a little Oops and then it went out of control into a monotangle-orgy! It was so fun and I think Trio will be one of my favourites. 

The second one, string 241 (Barbara Finwall):

Barbara Finwall has made a lot of very interesting strings! I used it with Yaw-Dee (Peg Farmer), the focustangle in Square One, Huggins and Beadlines (Margaret Bremner). Yaw-Dee is so cool!

The third one string 242(Joyce Blodgett):

Yes! A black tile at last! Haven´t done that for some time now. It is odd that I did this since it was my first try on Ragged Ray´s pattern Flec. But I had to try that since I liked his example on the black tile in his blog a lot! It is a fun and easy pattern. I will sure try it more. Here I used it with FragmentY1 in a wavy reticula following the string and Some tipple.

25 - 26th of February

The Diva´s challenge 304 was all about Way Bop. Way Bop has been seen here and there but no steps to find. It was released in November at the CZT retreat Zen-again and now it is in public at Tanglepatterns.com. So I did want to try it!

I did try it in my sketchbook several times, but I didn´t like the way it went. I felt like I needed some help. So I took my pencil and penciled a circle and divided it like this:

As I did so it was much easier for me to place the "seeds" even. 

I was much more happy about the outcome after that and I found it easier to embellish and make auras. About the 25th: I first made my Way Bop and placed some Hollibaugh in the center of it. Then I went outside the Way Bop but it turned out into Neuron instaed. Susan Kelley Pundt came up with a new name on that: Hollibeuron! I think I like that name!

Today is the 26th. I started off with Ovy (Adam Roades), a Ribbon I like very much, but then Way Bop had to come once again. As there was a little oops it took another direction this time and as I made auras outside it they all of a sudden transformed into Nipa. I liked the way it turned out and that it in some way lived it´s own life out of my control! 

21st - 24th of February

6 Day´s with the same patterns. By repeating  the same patterns every day something else happens. They don´t look the same  and they don´t act the same way. It was fun to try that. And very relaxing too. The patterns are: Static, Florz, Mooka, Jetties (all Zt) and A-Dalfa (Bunny Wright).

15th - 20th of February

Busy time, no blogg-posts! But now, back to procedures! I have been doing my calendar-tangling all these days and I am proud of last week´s result with Valentine-tangling:

The whole spread with only heart-tangles!I don´t use hearts so much the rest of the year, but I had a lot of fun doing this! The patterns are from 

15th: Minline (Damy) and Heartrope (Bunny Wright).
16th: Caught (Christine Reyes) and Heartrope (Bunny Wright)
17th: Heartline (Helen Williams)
18th: Puffle (Sandy Hunter), Heartbox and Heart Divided (Helen Williams).

19th and 20th: Static, Florz, Mooka, Jetties and A-Dalfa (Bunny Wright).

14th of February. happy Valentine!

I am excited about what this page will look like tomorrow! Hearts everywhere! One thing: I have after quite a long time found out how to change the setting of my scanner! I am so happy about that. Maybe I will use it for my tiles too if this turns out the way I want!

LG (Adele Bruno) followed from yesterday as well as Beadline (Margaret Bremner). Heartswell (Helen Williams) is such a fun tangle to draw. You find the steps here.

13th of February

A new page in the calendar. This is Valentines week. I don´t use Hearttangles very often, so this week I will have an orgy in Hearts!

Started with two of my favourites: Heart Divided (Helen Williams) and LG (Adele Bruno) and a little Beadline (Margaret Bremner). Ofcourse the red color must take place now!

For my evening meditation I used string 239 (Rosemary Turpin).

I am the Diva´s challenge this week is to create a Valentine-card and give it to someone. I am not sure you could describe this as a Valentine-card, but I will give it to someone special (my life companion). The patterns are: Heart Divided once again, Heartstring (also Helen Williams), Web (Suzanne McNeill), Lenche (my own), Beadline (Margaret Bremner) and Printemps (Zt).

12th of February and one travelling tangle!

One more page finished!I love this calendar!

I went on with F Q2 and R A2, Florz (Zt), Crescentmoon (Zt) and Web (Suzanne McNeill). Then Zimba popped up again and also Beadlines (Margaret Bremner). From now on I write F for Fragment and R for Reticula and the letters and numbers coming with it refers to fragments and reticula in Zentangle Primer. I liked the way it all turned out.

Then I went on finishing one of Sue Zanker´s beautiful starters for me! Forgot the beforepic, but I took a groupie as soon as I opened my Happy Mail, so everything is to be seen!

Sue started this black tile with Relly-Telly-One (Karin Klang-Meier) and I answered with Tipple and 2 patterns of Helen Williams: Heartline and Heart Offset. Heart Offset is a new tangle to me  and I liked to play with it. Here you find the entire Happy Mail from my friend Sue in Australia: