W2

Joey has chosen W2 this week and says this is the first tangle pattern she learnt. I think that is quite clever as it can be a confusing pattern to learn. The woven result is very satisfying though, and I would think a new person would certainly feel a sense of achievement when they were finished.

For the Monotangle challenge I have drawn a shaky W2 which I shaded and in the centre a free form W2 which I left unshaded. It is interesting to see the difference one on top of the other.

M and Kathy Barringer

M is this week's That's New to Me with an artist focus of Kathy Barringer. What fun this was. I got out my sketch book and found Miline which I hadn't drawn before. I think it will be one that sticks with me. I also had not used MI2 before so that warranted a bijou tile to itself too. Bijou tiles, I do love them, here I was able to fit in four of them. All the tangle patterns begin with M apart from Undo which is Katthy Barringer's pattern, Marasu was a lot of fun, winding it around itself and in and out of the top tile.

Beginning at the top tile I used:- Msst, Mysterie, Mambo, Mel Mel, Marasu, Undo, Minline, MI2 and Marasu again at the bottom surrounded by a little Mooka.

Tivoli, Tidings, and Tipple

T is the letter of the week over at Cheryl's Place. Do come and join us over there, it is great fun having the letter as a string. Most letters divide the tile very nicely and make great strings. I have used Tivoli, Tidings and Tipple.

SFT

This week I have continued the Cresent Moon craze for Daine and Carolein's SFT Challenge. I really enjoyed finding tangles beginning with the correct letters.

I used Tripoli, Fracas, Femgle, Fireworks, Sand and Tagh.

Hepmee

I came across this tangle pattern a while ago and loved it. Hepmee seems very appropriate for this time of year too. For the Tangle Me Three Challenge I drew it on the right hand side, then put it into a grid on the left hand side. On the top I drew black beads and left it with no web. I quite liked the top version, looks like a Sputnik and is almost a new tangle,

Gourdgeous

It is amazing being able to see properly. We went for a walk to the end of the street today and I was able to see the islands which are just offshore for the first time in a long time. Fortunately my near sight wasn't affected so I have been able to tangle, but this week I do still have to take it a bit easy otherwise my eyes get tired, particularly looking at the computer. I am really looking forward to visiting all your blogs and getting back to some sort of normality..

As I said it hasn't stopped me tangling for long. I have had a bit of a thing for crescent moons lately. The first one I did wasn't so good, the beaded zander I used to outline the points were a bit too thick and clumpy.

The next one I liked much better, it was the first time I had used Hamadox in conjunction with other tangles.

Then came a really fun one, purely by accident. The Ixorus looked like a night cap, Tri-Bee turned out like a beard, and a rogue swirl from the freeform Huggins was just in the right position for a nose. With all that appearing I put an antidot in the space to look like the eye of the man in the moon.

I decided I ought to try one in a different colour to orange, so blue was the feature on this one.

Well orange goes with the new tangle pattern The Diva has asked us to try today. I had s feeling Gourdgeous might be the one she would choose as it has only recently been released from the mother ship. I am not sure I shall use it much. It is not abstract enough for me. As soon as you get something that looks like a real life object I struggle to get it to look right, I just don't have the artistic flair.

Nevertheless I had a try for the challenge and used Gourdgeous with Gumleaves, Pokeleaf and Tipple.

Edit:- After visiting your blogs I was embarrassed and determined to try harder. I thought maybe I had learned a few things, especially about the stem area. I practised it in my sketch book, then tried it in a string surrounded by other tangles. It didn't really 'click' with me but finally I thought I could improve on my first one and redid it in Halloween pumpkin colours.

Here is the original photo.

Gourdgeous in a string.

Pumpkin colours again, a slight improvement.

Verdigogh

This tile says Halloween is over and Christmas is a-coming. Honestly, it is only the 2nd of November and already the shops have carols playing and I have seen Christmas adverts on the TV! 

Verdigogh, Joey's Challenge this week, has never come easily to me so green needles with red berries just helps it along, even if it does scream Christmas. The needles never seem to fall in the right place for me. It does help once you put the berries on, that seems to bring it together a bit, but I look forward to the day when I can draw it in a more refined way like some of the gorgeous ones I have seen on other people's blogs.