Joey's U

Here is my Undo tile for Joey's Challenge. I nearly didn't make it in time, but I didn't want to miss out as I have managed all the other challenges since the alphabet started.

I don't really 'get' Undo. I realise after a couple of times you diverge, but then what? Do you keep diverging (I did) ? What happens to the space left behind, I went back and filled in with more aura lines, but is that right? Mine never ends up looking like the tile on the step out, that one has centre pools, when are they created? Any way, here we are:-

U, Elenah Hadzijaneva and Shattuck.

Shattuck is the name of the game for the Tangle Me Three challenge. All three Shattuck's fitted perfectly in a crescent moon shape.

There are not many U tangle patterns, at least not on TanglePatterns.com so it was quite difficult to choose one that was New to Me for this challenge. Instead the New to Me patterns I used are two from Elenah Hadzijaneva, Hypnotic and Join. I loved Hypnotic and expect I will use it a lot in the future. The other patterns I used are Up and Down, Up and Across and Umble and I fitted them all into this little star. It seems Celestial objects are my thing at the moment.

Apologies to everyone for not visiting you this week, I hope to be allowed on the computer for longer next week. Thank goodness, because I am having really bad withdrawal symptoms - I love going around all your blogs.

O A C and S

I'm back! Well, sort of, I am only allowed on the computer for a short while so I am afraid I can't yet visit everyone's blogs, apologies for that. I can only write for a little while too, but fortunately I knew  ahead of time what letters would be needed for Diane and Carolien's challenge and prepared this tile last week before my eye surgery.

My craze this week is for Crescent Moons, and I don't mean the tangle pattern lol. I used Antidots Arc flower, Opus, Crescent Moon, Angelfish, Cubine and a touch of Creweller.

Again, for Tackle It Tuesday, I knew it would be S and prepared this last week. I used Stoic, Springkle, Sedgling, and Sand Swirl.

U N D

Many thanks to everyone for the tea and sympathy about the wasp stings last week. Thankfully they have settled down.

I have a small problem when commenting on some people's blogs. If it is a blogger website there is no problem, I am logged in. Sometimes on other sites it wants verification and if it says " Are you a robot?" I simply tick NO, and it makes me laugh. However some sites ask you to verify that you are a human. Well, now what do I do? I am not a human, I am a tortoise and I can't honestly tick the box that says 'Yes'. I beg you all to petition your website companies for a change. In this day and age there is just no excuse for xenophobia!

Anyway to get on to Diane & Carolien's Challenge which is U N D this week. I seem to be having a circle fad at the moment and so each circle contains one of the following:- Up and Down, Umble, N'Zepple, Nipa, Drupe, Dyon, Diva Dance and Dancet.

R - Rixty, Rain and Raddox

R. I thought R would make a great string and so I was looking forward to this week's challenge for Tackle It Tuesday over at Cheryl's Place. I decided to depart from my usual formula of filling the letter with tangles, instead useing it as the actual string, and yes it looked beautifully divided into suitable segments for tangling.

Unfortunately I just couldn't get the tangle patterns to play together in anything more than a basic way. At least they were all tangles I enjoy drawing, but they do look disconnected from each other, each in their own little segments.

Fall

It is Fall, or Autumn as we say here. The evenings are drawing in and I find I am putting the light on even as early as five o'clock in order to see what I am drawing. It is amazing the difference light makes when you are doing close work. In daylight you can see so much more of the detail. Even just moving to sit near to the window can help so much. I have frequently finished a tile late at night and been quite pleased with it, only to come downstairs in the morning to find there are gaps in my blocking in and other tiding up to be done.

Talking of light and seeing, I have to go for an eye op on Thursday, so you will have to forgive me if I am not able to visit blogs and comment for a couple of weeks. It shouldn't be long before I can see enough to draw and read, but I am not sure how long it will be before I can look at an iPad screen for any longer than needed to quickly post my challenge entries. Hopefully it won't be long, otherwise I will be suffering from withdrawal symptoms!!

Fall is the subject of The Diva's Challenge this week. When I think of Autumn I think of the wind, both in the air and blowing leaves underfoot. I also think of brambles, picking them from the hedgerows. Then there is fireworks and bonfires on Guy Fawkes night. In my tile I have used Sand Swirl to indicate the wind, blue for in the air and brown for underfoot. Bronx Cheer to represent Brambles and Fireworks tangle to represent Fireworks lol

Pots & Pans

As luck would have it the artist focus this week, in SuzyMosh's That's New To Me Challenge, has a tangle pattern beginning with P - Pots-n-Pans so that is the one I chose. I know that we don't have to have all of the tangle patterns beginning with P, so long as one is, that is just an extra little challenge I have imposed on myself.

I have drawn Pots-n-Pans before, and found it rather fun. Today I have used a teetering stack of pots-n-pans as the string alongside Pop-cloud, and two new-to-me patterns Panda and Points & Curves.