Wednesday's Tangle - Tracery

"Tracery" is by Dianne Krumnow CZT and you'll find her step-out HERE at TanglePatterns. 

I came up with an easier way to draw this pattern. I drew a pencil line for the path that I wanted my design to go and marked it off in even segments. I alternated drawing the shield shapes and rice shapes between the marks along the line. Once I had drawn all of them, I added the little curls. As you can see, there are many ways to embellish this design.

UPDATE ON THE NO NAME PATTERN THAT I BLOGGED ABOUT YESTERDAY...

Yesterday I blogged about an unnamed pattern by Tomàs Padrós. I drew two more tiles last night and had a bit more success. For reference, here is the wonky-looking tile that I showed you yesterday:

For my second attempt, I moved the squares on the outer perimeter closer to the edge of the tile. As you can see below, they ended up going too close to the edge of the border. I also drew the lines and boxes with sharp corners and I don't think that's the right look. At least I did a neater job this time. There is one other issue with this second tile. My Micron 01 pen was nearly out of ink and was drawing very scratchy and thin.

On my final tile, I moved the black squares back to the original positions and drew with a fresh Micron 01 pen. The other differences this time are that I drew my aura lines as close as I possibly could to each other and I softly rounded all of the corners. Now my black background spaces look almost the same as on Tomàs' example with only a few of them ending up almost touching each other. Bear in mind though that I added an extra row of auras around mine because of the lines being so close together. Everything looked too skinny before I added the extra rows.

Tuesday's Tangle - No Name Pattern by Tomàs Padrós

Today's tangle doesn't have a name. It's another wonderful Tomàs Padrós creation that he posted on some of the Facebook groups that I belong to. You can see his tile and his step-out HERE on Instagram.

My tile came out very wonky because my lines aren't nearly as straight and even as his. Comparing mine with his, it becomes apparent that he drew his boxes and lines smaller than I did mine. Note how much black space there is between his boxes and lines. Mine are very close together near the center. After another close look at both of our tiles, I think I see what caused my problem. I started drawing the boxes too far in from the outer edges. I did enjoy drawing it even if it looks wonky and maybe I'll give another go and see if I can get better results.

Monday's Tangle - Stormy

"Stormy" is another pattern by Lindy Clarkson. Her pattern is posted HERE at Pattern-Collections.com. Melinda Barlow CZT has a video HERE.

UPDATE: The Pattern-Collections website has shut down. Click HERE to view this pattern.

Sunday's Tangle - Spearz

You'll find Lindy Clarkson's "Spearz" pattern HERE at Pattern-Collections.com. I played around with different shading effects on my example and I think I've decided that I prefer this design without shading, at least on the colored card stock that I used.

UPDATE: The Pattern-Collections website has shut down. Click HERE to view this pattern.

Saturday's Tangle - Papermint

"Papermint" is a really cute tangle but it's not easy to draw it neatly. However, I think that's part of what makes it so cute and quirky. The pattern is by Sandy Hunter CZT and you'll find it HERE on her blog. Her step-out doesn't show any shading on it but if you scroll down through her post you'll see an example that she did shade. I think the shading is what makes it special. Melinda Barlow CZT did a video which you can watch HERE. She did something a little different with hers. If you look closely, you'll see that I added just a hint of pink to my "Papermints".