Today's Tangle - Trinity

"Trinity" is a challenging pattern by Stephanie Kiefhaber CZT. Her step-out is posted HERE at TanglePatterns. Tangle Dream has a video HERE where she makes "Trinity" look deceptively easy to draw.

My attempts to draw "Trinity" by following the step-out and the video weren't successful. However, the other day I was browsing the ValenTangle 2020 Facebook group where this pattern is the prompt for Day 2 and something made me see the design differently. Instead of starting by drawing the "holes", I wondered what would happen if I started by drawing the outline of the entire shape first. Today's tile is the result. I found it much easier to gauge the size and placement of the holes and the width of the loops this way. The shape of mine came out a bit wonky but I should be able to fix that issue with more practice.

Today's Tangle - Thing in the middle of a thing

This crazy-looking pattern called "Thing in the middle of a thing" is by Linda Rea. The step-out is posted HERE at Pattern-Collections and HERE on Flickr. Instead of drawing each component individually, I started with a zigzag line across my tile then filled in each "V" as directed by the pattern.

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

Today's Tangle - My First Mandala

This is my very first mandala and I'm very pleased with it. I didn't follow any particular pattern or use any particular tangles. I just started in the middle and worked my way to the outside by drawing whatever designs came to mind as I went along. After adding some shading, I added touches of blue colored pencil and some metallic gold gel pen.

To make a circular pencil grid, I started by drawing pencil lines from corner to corner of my 3.5 x 3.5 inch tile to mark the center. I printed and cut out cardstock circle templates in several sizes and traced some of them on my tile to create rings of various widths. I also divided the grid into twelve equal wedges. I didn't use any precision drawing tools but my goal wasn't perfection. I just wanted to make a pretty design and have fun creating it.

Today's Tangle - Side-Eye

"Side-Eye" is by YuRu Chen and her pattern is posted HERE at Pattern-Collections. Mimi has a video about this pattern HERE and Dawn Collins has one HERE.

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

I drew the tile below some time ago but wasn't happy enough with the outcome to blog about it. I gave it another go the other night and I like the tile above much better

Today's Tangle - The Italian Tangle Video Tutorial

I followed THIS YouTube lesson by Romi Marks (Tangled Yogi) to draw today's tile which I will give to a friend. I blogged about the nearly identical tile below back in October HERE. Both are 3 1/2 x 3 1/2 inch tiles but this time I used slightly different colors.