After missing several rounds of the “It’s A String Thing” challenge I am back for challenge #116. The theme has to do with Halloween. We are to use TanglePatterns string 095 by Sandra Hart. Appropriately enough the string looks like several candy corns arrayed in different directions. The strings of choice are: Chartz, Cadent, Cracked, and Confettus. Click each text link to be taken to a step out for each of the patterns.
I enjoyed this challenge and liked the Halloween theme of Candy Corn. Thank you Adele for another fun challenge!
Diva challenge #241 features a guest post by Paula Bramante, CZT 15. The theme for this week is “Stones and Ceremony,” and we have the option to use a cairn template (provided) as a string for the challenge. Paula’s post includes more details and examples (diva link above), which I encourage readers to check out.
When I went to see what this week’s Diva challenge is I was very happy to see the stack of stones theme. It’s a little funny but my current desktop background happens to be a photo of a pile of stones. I find it very serene and beautiful to look at, and it reminds me to relax. I also picked up an inexpensive Japanese rock garden at our local dollar store. It is in our living room and I’ve noticed how guests always seem to gravitate to it. Most of the time they will use the little rake to make patterns in the sand, and perhaps rearrange the stones. Very Zen!
For this challenge I used the recommended cairn template as the string. I decided to keep it simple and to use tangles that felt natural. Tangles included are Tipple, Sag, Diva Dance, Mod Box, Sand Swirl, Crescent Moon, Hollibaugh, Printemps, Msst, and Nipa. Thank you for the interesting and meditative challenge, Paula!
The diva’s challenge for this week is Munchin Play. Munchin is an original pattern by Molly Hollibaugh. In Laura’s post she shared a video of Molly Hollibaugh demonstrating how to draw Munchin. As Laura points out, it can be tremendously helpful to see someone demonstrate how to draw a tangle, as well as to provide additional tips. I certainly found this to be the case too. As an additional reference there is a step out available here.
At first I was going to leave some triangles unfilled – white space is nice – but then I decided to try something different. After thinking of some different tangles to try, I decided on Paradox. It seemed to me like it would work very well with Munchin. I am pleased with the result.
Every first Monday of the month is a Use My Tangle (UMT) for the diva’s weekly challenge. The UMT challenge this week is to draw a tile with Tri-Bee by Beate Winkler, CZT. A step out for Tri-Bee is included in the diva’s post, as well as on Beate Winkler’s blog (links above).
I love this new tangle! It is easy to learn and there are many possibilities with it. Tri-Bee seems like an organic sort of tangle — it just naturally grows in any and all directions. Very cool looking. Since this is my first attempt at Tri-Bee I went for a simple monotangle, with shading. Next time I would like to create a less random looking pattern, but for now I’m happy with my tile.
Thanks to Laura for featuring Beate’s pretty and fun tangle. Also, congratulations on reaching 5000 likes on The Diva’s Weekly Zentangle Challenge page on Facebook!
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