Tuesday, July 31, 2018

"It's a String Thing" #254

It's Tuesday, your good news day!

Please know that the tiles for IAST #253 will be posted on Thursday.
They are awe inspiring, so be sure to check back.

For today and for IAST #254, we begin with this string ~

IAST #254 String by Adele Bruno, CZT

The tangles we will use include ~


Tofube by  CZT Damy (Mei Hua) Teng
I like the roundness and poofiness of this tangle and am happy to have an excuse to try it out :)

Barquillos by CZT Maria Tovar (also here on her blog )
In Maria's step out she suggests tangling in a continuous line from one part of the grid to another.  That looks inviting and relaxing, so let's give it a try.


 Keep in mind that strings are merely suggestions. As with all IAST adventures, simply pencil in the string and let the tangles lead the way. 

Here are the (Not so) Official Guidelines: 
* Challenges are posted on Tuesdays.
*Use the string posted for the week and some or all of the suggested patterns
* Submit a photo of your tile saved as jpg or scan your tile (300 dpi or higher) and save as a jpg
*Email your jpg file as an attachment to - brunoadelem@gmail.com
*Entries for IAST are to be submitted by Saturday evening of the week issued
*Photos, notes, and the 'Tile for Honors' are (usually) posted on the following Monday 


Send in your photos - you will encourage and inspire fellow Zentangle® enthusiasts all over the world. WHEN YOU SIGN YOUR NAME, PLEASE INCLUDE WHERE YOU LIVE. 
FOR EXAMPLE: ADELE BRUNO (FLORIDA)

PLEASE NOTE: It is not necessary for you to have a blog or website to participate. 

If you do have a blog or website, I will add a link upon request. 
Please include the site specific URL. 

I look forward to your emails.

Enjoy!



Friday, July 27, 2018

Where I Tangle

Featuring Gara Hudson (Florida) ~

When Gara showed this photograph in our last class together, I immediately requested a copy for this series.  She wrote:
This whole desk u.s.e.d to be my Zentangling area till my cat took over the side in front of the window!
I now have less space to work on.... but much more kitty love ❤️
Photograph by Gara Hudson


Thank you, Gara.

Enjoy!

Thursday, July 26, 2018

"It's a String Thing" #252 Tiles

We are in heaven entertaining our grandchildren for a few weeks.  While this post is just a bit delayed as a result, I am happy to present the tiles for IAST #252.  

We used CZT Angie Gittles' Deeday tangle with the option to add additional tangles. 

Let's take a look ~

The first tile arrived from Donna Matoi (Long Beach, California) ~
I hope you are having a wonderful time with your grandchildren!
Here is my tile for IAST#252. I ended up with fragments that had a mind of their own. I also used some striping.
Thanks for all you do!



From Anita A Westin (Dalarna, Sweden) and here on her blog ~
Thank´s Adele for an inspiring challenge. Deeday is Lovely to work with!
...The patterns added are Purk, Striping, Printemps and Zenplosion (Danny O´Brian).



From Sherry Conte (Sanford, Florida) ~
I couldn't figure out how to draw this from the step out so I just looked at the finish product and figured it out from there. Additional Tangles or Fescue and flux.



From Angie Gittles (Maryland), the creator of the lovely Deeday ~
Oh the pressure to participate since you are featuring my new pattern! LOL!
I decided to go big and put a big fragment facing a different direction in each of the 4 sections of the string. I then used each fragment as a string and added Mooka and Shattuck to each one.
Thank you! I cannot wait to see what others create!


From Gale Sherman (Tucson, Arizona) ~
As always, thank you for an interesting challenge! My participation is spottier than I would like it to be, but I check the submitted tiles every week because the pieces are so interesting and inspiring. Today I used a black Speedball Elegant Writer pen for the string and then sprayed it lightly with water to get the ink to run and the colors to separate. I combined #Deeday with another tangle (new to me) which had caught my attention, #Dayzee-Mae. I thought they went well together because of the center diagonal line. I used both tangles as fragments and then used #L2 for the other reticulas. I completed the tile with a Green Gold FaberCastell pen, a gold gelly roll pen and Spectrum Noir Sparkle pen. I had a great fun... THANKS!



From Sally Whiteman (New Zealand) ~
I really enjoyed the challenge of this one.
I have used J15 fragment from the Primer, Kathy's Dilemma, Knightsbridge, and Fescu in my Dee day string.




From Marjan Heemskerk (The Netherlands) ~
Four tiles in one and I had a lot of fun!
I also used Printemps, Tipple and Keeko.
Greetings from a Chocoholic:)



From Susie (St. Louis, Missouri) ~
In addition to Dee Day I used the tangle Irradial. Kraft tile with reddish brown pen and shaded with terra cotta and white pencils.



From Mariam G (Port Hueneme, California) ~
Another creative challenge - thank you! It's a busy week here, so I had to keep it simple; but it was fun none the less. In addition to Deeday i used Pokeroot and Pokeleaf, Crescent moon, Paradox and a loosely interpretted Sooflower. I haven't really experimented with using a pattern as a string, so this was a great place to start.


From Lynn G (Florida) ~
My IAST 252 with thanks for the challenge.
Deeday - by Angie Gittles
Feathering S-curve - by Ina Sonnemoser
Zenplosion Fold - by Daniel Obrien
And Shard - A zentangle original
Tinted with beige General’s pastel chalk pencil.




From Shirley Wohlsen (Queensland, Australia) ~
Attached is my Tile for “It’s A String Thing #252 “
Starting with, Angie Gittles CZT 29 Tangle ‘ Deeday’.
I Added the following Tangles.
‘C-Stem’ by Agneta Landegren.
‘Clob’ by Gem Millar.
‘Maryhill’ by Betsy Wilson ( a variation of) 


From Lisette (Switzerland) ~
My Deeday ist accompanied by Irradial (Tomas Padros). I like Deeday which could be a nice fragment in a Zenbutton - I'll have to try this too. Thank you for introducing Deeday, Adele.
Big hugs


From Juul (France) ~
Here is my tile...no shadowing etc,but I still wanted to send it...
Lots of love from very hot france


From Sharyn Penna, CZT (Massachusetts) ~
Congratulations on breaking the 1000 posts ... you’re a marathoner!
Angie Gittles’ Deeday has so much potential ... I can’t wait to see the many interpretations.
Family is everything ... takes the time to enjoy every minute with them ... visits are an indulgence to linger over.
Cheers to auras ... (definitely NOT the migraine kind) but definitely the tangly kind and the family kind ... kids and grandkids.


From Baafke (The Netherlands) ~
Hereby my submission of this week.
I have added the tangles: Eez, Demi and Autumnal.


From Lin H, CZT 28 (Florida) ~
Thanks for the introduction to Deejay by Angie Gittles and using it as a string. I included Printemps, Mooka, and Diva Dance on a gray tile. Really liked this challenge, Adele.


From Ria Matheussen, CZT (Belgium) ~
This was a lovely challenge. I 'm fond of this pattern that offers so many possibilities.
I have glued a brown tile on a bigger blue one and started with Deeday on the smallest one. I filled the tangle with the fragments Q5 and B11. Jetties is drawn behind. Daydee "flows" into Toodles with Printemps as background. To finish I put La bel on the blue tile with a white gellypen and added some colours with ordinary colourpencils.
I enjoyed this challenge very much and am already curious to discover the next one!
Wish you a nice summer, surrounded by your grandchildren and send you warm regards from Belgium


From Amy L. (Connecticut) ~
I wasn’t sure about this challenge until I did Deeday in the base string. After that I had a blast filling it in. I decided to use renaissance so I could do white highlights. I considered doing a second one but ran out of time. I have trouble leaving empty space, so I ended up using 10 tangles inside: flux, Tipple, poke leaf, crescent moon, striping, Shattuck, Printemps, mooka, Fassett, and n’zeppel. I’m looking forward to trying this again.
Thanks for the great prompt!


From Sra (India) ~
Here's my submission for the week's challenge. Apart from Deeday, I used Fasset to fill the tile, a larger version in the corners and smaller one in the centre. Have a nice time with your grandchildren!


From Margarete Gilge (Germany) and here on her blog ~
this time I send you my two versions of your Deeday challenge, because I couldn’t decide for one. You can find the two on my blog under the link...

In my first version, I mainly used a modified nouvart, framed by Printemps and put a star inside.
In the second version, I rotated the Deeday fragment 180 degrees, and combined it with the rounding out. Paradox came here on the outside, Printemps, Y. I. AM, a new wonderful pattern of Susie Ngamsuwan from Thailand and Toodles on the inside.
Thank you for this interesting challenge! I enjoyed drawing the two versions very much.
Best wishes from Germany



From Karen Herstowski (Atlanta, Georgia) ~
Took some artistic license with this one! Felt that since we had 4 equal parts, I would like to keep that symmetry going. Adding a variation of “Rain” by Maria, straightening the lines of Deeday and adding some orbs, kept it very structured and balanced. Enjoyed it!
Thanks for such wonderful fun!!


From VenaC (Whitby, Ontario, Canada) ~
I did DeeDay first. When I had finished, I decided to put it at the bottom right and then added bottom left: Y.I.AM (Susie Ng), top right: Xela (from YouTube video by Mimi Xy), Top left: Clamz (Sharon Wrench). I can't thank you enough, Adele, for all your time doing these challenges and for making them so interesting. Thank you for posting the pics of my holiday tangling spot. I am now back to the kitchen table or my door/desk in the basement. Still quite peaceful, but without the view!


From Laurel Davis, CZT (New York) ~
I had a lot of fun with this challenge using Bijou tiles. In the second one, I used Snail, Florz and ‘nzeppel. Thanks, Adele!



From Susan (United Kingdom) ~
I really like the way this can be tiled and repeated.


From Nor'dzin (Wales, United Kingdom) ~
Here is my tile for challenge #252. I love Deeday - so many possibilities. I hope I understood the two parts of the challenge and have fulfilled it!


From Jane Goddard (United Kingdom) ~
I’m glad when one of your challenges pushes me outside my comfort zone. Deeday is a tangle I would be unlikely to try, but I love fragments so I drew my first tile following your instructions and then added colour with watercolour brush pens, white gellyroll and grey Tombow pen. Then I had another idea to draw it as a wrought iron window with just a smudge of colour, so you have two entries from me this time!
Thanks so much for the inspiration!



From Trudi (Woodview, Ontario, Canada) ~
Greetings Adele! I almost forgot to send this, time is really getting away from me, it's summertime and I have been taking it very easy :).
Thank you so much for not and still challenging us.



From Dee (Toronto, Canada) ~
Thanks again for your weekly challenge! I still need to catch up on last week's, but I really enjoyed this week's, perhaps because Deeday features my name? I am on vacation in sunny Manitoba so I needed to add light (ie Footlites) and plants (Pokeroot and Pokeleaf).




From Sue Leslie (New Mexico) ~
Fun challenge using Deeday as the string. Used Swarm, mooka, paradox and some auras as fillers. Thanks Adele and hope you are really enjoying the family time with the grandkids. Play with yours for me! Mine are in China and I never get to see them, one is already 1 and a half and I’ve never meet her. The other is 6 and I’ve seen here 5 times. So do enjoy yours for me too.




From Sharon Fite (California) ~
I didn't think I could do it, but I did! I didn't think I could make a string out of the tangle, but I'm happy with the results. I put the pointy parts of Deeday together. First, the summer sun appeared and then a star and then the moons. I finished up with Joki, Jonqal, and Dansk tangles. All together it looks a bit like a compass on a map, ready to roll up into a tube. I used black and sepia microns, white gelly roll pen, and white charcoal pencil on a 4.5" square kraft paper tile. Great challenge, Adele!


From Cyndee Pelley (Oklahoma) and here on her blog ~
Greetings from Oklahoma, where we have passed hot and moved to abject misery, as the temperatures have topped 110 Degrees Fahrenheit (43 degrees Celsius) all last week! Yikes! Luckily, this means more indoor tangling time.
This week's challenge was, again, a new Tangle for me. I enjoyed the chance to explore DeeDay. In the black and white tile I used Eni Oken's MicroTangling technique. On the Renaissance tile, I used Knightsbridge, Sandswirl, Garlic Cloves, and Fife.
Thanks for the awesome challenge!



From Barbara (Germany) ~
here is my attempt with this weeks challenge. I hope I did understand your suggestions right.
In the center I see a cross, which is my theme in this moment.
3 weeks ago, I lost my very old father. Retuning to life isn’t such easy for the whole family.
Hope you all are fine!


From Gabi (Germany) ~
Nice new pattern again with lots of possibilities!
Very challenging, thanks a lot and enjoy your weekend!


From Felicity Strohfeldt (South Africa) and here on her blog ~
Thank you for the unusual challenge this week using the Deeday by Angie Gittles. So pleased that I made dee-day this week too. I’m not sure if I interpreted correctly, but I used Deeday as the string and then randomly chose zentangle patterns to enhance the Deeday string. I chose Zenplosion folds by Danni ‘O Brien, Spawn by Shoshi, Leaflet by Helen Williams, and Munchin by Margaret Brenmer with a little Tipple on the side. Eventually I was very surprised by the final tile.
I intend to try out different versions of Deeday and see what pops up.
Once again thank you for this innovative challenge. Looking forward to seeing the work of all the other participants.
Have a good week one and all.



Thank you to Angie for her Deeday and for each and every one of the talented tanglers who sent in a tile for this week's challenge.

If you missed IAST #253, click here for all of the delightful details.

Enjoy!

Wednesday, July 25, 2018

Wednesday's Words of Wisdom


We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world,
and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

IAST #251 Tile by Felicity Strohfeldt (South Africa)

Tuesday, July 24, 2018

"It's a String Thing" #253

It's Tuesday, your good news day!

I would imagine that the longest lunar eclipse of the century - due on Thursday - must be creating quite a stir on the other side of the globe.  In the United States we will rely on news coverage and photographs to appreciate the event. 

Let's all mark the occasion by tangling together and begin with this string ~
IAST #253 String by Adele Bruno, CZT
There is an "M" for the moon in there :)
The tangles we will use include three by Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas ~

Crescent Moon
This was a 'given' for the week. 
Click here for my past post about Crescent Moon

Nipa
Nipa reminds me of outer space and was an easy choice.
Click here for my Tips for Tangling Nipa

Printemps
More orbs and spirals!
Click here for my Tips for Tangling Printemps


 Keep in mind that strings are merely suggestions. As with all IAST adventures, simply pencil in the string and let the tangles lead the way. 

Here are the (Not so) Official Guidelines: 
* Challenges are posted on Tuesdays.
*Use the string posted for the week and some or all of the suggested patterns
* Submit a photo of your tile saved as jpg or scan your tile (300 dpi or higher) and save as a jpg
*Email your jpg file as an attachment to - brunoadelem@gmail.com
*Entries for IAST are to be submitted by Saturday evening of the week issued
*Photos, notes, and the 'Tile for Honors' are (usually) posted on the following Monday 


Send in your photos - you will encourage and inspire fellow Zentangle® enthusiasts all over the world. WHEN YOU SIGN YOUR NAME, PLEASE INCLUDE WHERE YOU LIVE. 
FOR EXAMPLE: ADELE BRUNO (FLORIDA)

PLEASE NOTE: It is not necessary for you to have a blog or website to participate. 

If you do have a blog or website, I will add a link upon request. 
Please include the site specific URL. 

I look forward to your emails.

Enjoy!

PLEASE NOTE:  Results of IAST #252 will be posted on Thursday and they are amazing.  
Stay tuned!

Friday, July 20, 2018

Where I Tangle

Featuring VenaC (Whitby, Ontario, Canada) ~

VenaC mentioned in one of her "It's a String Thing" submissions that she was on vacation and tangling in a most beautiful spot.  I asked her to send a photograph or two for this series and thankfully, she obliged.  She wrote:
I am on one of the gulf islands a ferry ride from Nanaimo (on Vancouver Island) in British Columbia.This is the deck of my son's house quite high above the water. There are really tall trees all around. A bald eagle often sits high up on the branch of one of those very tall trees and deer stroll through the property in the late evening and early morning eating whatever greenery strikes their fancy. The islanders have to fence off their vegetable and flower gardens or the deer would eat everything. It is quiet sitting up here watching the tide go out leaving the boats anchored near the shore high and dry and then watching them float off when the tide comes back in again. We had a 20 minute scenic ride around the island in a float plane. Never been in a float plane before so found it quite exciting. Done lots of sightseeing. The first pic is my "zen" chair, normally with a cushion, and the second pic is what I see from that chair. Only one day left of this holiday.

Photographs courtesy of VenaC



Thank you, Vena.

Until next week, ENJOY!


Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Wednesday's Words of Wisdom

Here is a post from three years ago - a summer revisit...

Renaissance Zendala featuring Kisses by Adele Bruno, CZT

I posted this Zendala in 2015 on the eve of publishing my Kisses tangle, a tribute to Milton Hershey.  (The step out for Kisses can be found here on my blog and here on TanglePatterns.)

I made a note that day that it also marked the publication of my 500th post. 

This week, three years later, my posts here on Tickled to Tangle have eclipsed 1,000.
What better way to celebrate than with a bit of chocolate.

Enjoy!



Tuesday, July 17, 2018

"It's a String Thing" #252

It's Tuesday, your good news day!

Our "summer fun" continues this week as we explore the new Deeday by CZT and IAST contributor Angie Gittles.  Before the introduction, here is our simple string ~

IAST String by Adele Bruno, CZT
Angie's Deeday step out can be found here on TanglePatterns.
There are 2 steps to this challenge.

First, add Deeday to the string.
This tangle works well alone, as a fragment, or accented with other tangles - and that is just what we will do!

Second, use Deeday as a string itself and add one or more tangles to it.  Use as few or as many as you wish.  Please include the pattern names in your note for easy reference for others.

Keep in mind that strings are merely suggestions. As with all IAST adventures, simply pencil in the string and let the tangles lead the way. 

Here are the (Not so) Official Guidelines: 
* Challenges are posted on Tuesdays.
*Use the string posted for the week and some or all of the suggested patterns
* Submit a photo of your tile saved as jpg or scan your tile (300 dpi or higher) and save as a jpg
*Email your jpg file as an attachment to - brunoadelem@gmail.com
*Entries for IAST are to be submitted by Saturday evening of the week issued
*Photos, notes, and the 'Tile for Honors' are (usually) posted on the following Monday 


Send in your photos - you will encourage and inspire fellow Zentangle® enthusiasts all over the world. WHEN YOU SIGN YOUR NAME, PLEASE INCLUDE WHERE YOU LIVE. 
FOR EXAMPLE: ADELE BRUNO (FLORIDA)

PLEASE NOTE: It is not necessary for you to have a blog or website to participate. 

If you do have a blog or website, I will add a link upon request. 
Please include the site specific URL. 

I look forward to your emails.

Enjoy!


Monday, July 16, 2018

"It's a String Thing" #251 Tiles

Happy Monday to you!

This week we explored one curvy (Stiks) and one straight lined (Munchin) tangle along a meandering string.  While that may sound simplistic, the results were very detailed.

On a personal note - Over the next few weeks, we get to enjoy a visit from our grandchildren.  Since I will be if full "Gramma" mode while still keeping up with our challenges, Tangled Tidbits will return after our summer fun.

The first tile arrived from Sherry Conte (Florida) ~
Stiks was a perfect tangle for this string.


From Lynn G. (Florida) ~
Thank you, Adele.



From Marjan Heemskerk (The Netherlands) ~
I don't use black tiles very much but it was fun to do so.
Greetings from a warm and very dry Holland.


From Juliane Lopes (Florida) ~
Well I think this is a first for me, Adele,...submitting an entry for IAST the day after you posted it!! I actually did most of this last night, and finished the shading this morning. But I'm not 100% convinced it's done...I think I normally would have tried to shade the ovals and circles for Stiks, but using the white on black threw me off a bit, plus they are too small. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
(I found that Stiks naturally rolls off the pen much smaller than anticipated - as you will see on my tile below.  It helps to over exaggerate them before adding the orbs.)


From Lisette (Switzerland) ~
Thank you for this new challenge with Stikz, the new pattern. When I first saw it, it didn't appeal to me so much. But as so often with Zentangle, as soon as you start drawing and playing with a pattern and get familiar with it, it's great fun. Unfortunately I've neglected Munchin for a long time. It was good to meet this old friend again! Thank you so much for your weekly effort and persistent work.
Hugs from sunny Switzerland



From Ria Matheussen, CZT (Belgium) ~
Here is my entry for your 251 st challenge, a wonderful combination of an older and a new tangle.
This time, I prefered to use only black and white to become more contrasts.
I enjoyed the challenge and thank you very much.
Warm regards from Belgium





From Shirley Wholsen (Queensland, Australia) ~
Thank you, Adele, for this fun challenge,
I have attached my Tile for ‘It’s A String Thing #251’

From Isle Lukken (The Netherlands) and here on her blog ~
I missed last week’s festivities for your 250th challenge so hereby my late congratulations and lots of thanks for so many great challenges!


From Hilary (Chicago) ~
First of all, since I didn’t participate last week, let me congratulate you on the awesome accomplishment of 250 challenges. You really are amazing !
Now on to number 251. I followed your string, then divided the sections into triangles. As you probably can tell I was happier doing Munchin than Stiks.



From Sally Whiteman (New Zealand) ~
I really enjoyed these tangles. I had not done Stiks before.
Really cold frosty morning here, ideal to sit tangling while waiting for the frost to clear.
Many thanks for the challenge.


From Baafke (The Netherlands) ~

This is my entry of this week, it has become a kind of chain.


From Susie (St. Louis, Missouri) ~



From Priscilla DeConte, CZT 28 (Kingston, New York) ~
This was another fun filled challenge...I used one of the tiles I made using combination of brusho and other watercolors for background.
Here is my entry for this week.
Have a blessed one all!



From Anna Houston, CZT (British Columbia, Canada) ~
After a long hiatus during which I merely lurked and marveled at all of the work of all of your talented contributors, I finely decided to dive back in to your challenges. This is my entry for this week.
(So good to have you back!)



From Ragged Ray (United Kingdom) ~
Little time, but just enough to send you my tile. And to say how much I love Stiks, so meditative - the way you repeat the same lines with tiny variation and find the tangle taking you on a gentle journey. Lots of Stiks on my tile, but just a tiny taste of Munchin who I still struggle to connect with!



From Nor'dzin (Wales, United Kingdom) ~
Lovely to see the festive tiles from the last challenge.
Here is this week’s. The string immediately told me where Stiks was going! When I scanned it to send to you, I accidentally scanned a negative one. I think it looks really interesting!
Warm wishes to you and all contributors.



From Jane (United Kingdom) ~
Hi Adele, congratulations on 250 challenges, unfortunately I couldn't get to the last one, but will endeavour to keep up again. Ever appreciative of this opportunity to try the different tangles you suggest!



From Karen Herstowski (Atlanta, Georgia) ~
I love this string. It has a great movement which made it so easy to design!


From Gabi (Germany) ~
What a beautiful string this time! I kept it very simple... used just one of the suggested patterns and resisted in using colours.
Have a sunny week



From Margarete Gilge (Germany) and here on her blog ~
first I didn‘t know exactly how to combine your two given patterns with your string. But I took it easy and drew spontaneously.
A second Variation you can see on my blog under the link: .
Thank you very much for this interesting challenge!
Best wishes from Germany



From Mariam G (Port Hueneme, California) ~
What a great way to start the countdown for the next 250 IAST! Stiks is such a happy little tangle - makes me smile when drawing it! My husband thinks my tile looks like caterpillars and cocoons, and that's just fine with me.


From Laurel Davis, CZT (New York) ~
I started experimenting with Stiks on a practice square and then liked it so much, I added some Munchin (one of my go to tangles) and am now submitting it for your latest challenge.



From Kate (United Kingdom) ~
My contribution to this week's challenge. I've lost some of the curves from the string and allowed some of the perfs to escape to make the corners of the Munchin triangles!



From Ingrid (The Netherlands) ~
Here is my tile # 251 for this week.
With lots of love and have a blessed week.


From Anita A Westin (Dalarna, Sweden) and here on her blog ~
Hello Adele! I couldn´t participate last week, but I saw the wonderful happy results! Here is my tile for 251, which I did enjoy a lot. Thank´s Adele for doing this IAST-challenges! Here are the comments in my blog:



From Trudi (Woodview, Ontario, Canada) ~
Greetings Adele! What a nice exercise this challenge was I really enjoyed doing these two tangles. Thank you.


From Donna Matoi (Long Beach, California) ~
CONGRATULATIONS on 250 IAST! What an accomplishment! Looking forward to the next 250!
So here is mine for #251.
Thank you for your time and efforts to do this every week! I love your new feature “Where I Tangle”. It is so cool to see everyone’s space for creating!
Have a wonderful week!


From Lin H., CZT (Florida) ~
I was so sorry not to be able to submit a tile last week to join in the celebration of your 250th challenge but I was sending you cheers in my mind! I really enjoyed your latest challenge with Stiks which was new for me and Munchin. Maria T. recently posted a tile that she had used a flicking motion with her white charcoal pencil and I tried that on my tile and was pleasantly pleased with the results. I love learning something new.



From Sue Agnew (Tucson, Arizona) ~
I really had fun playing with these tangles, individually. However, when I tried to combine them in one tile I couldn't find a way that pleased me. So, I did a monotangle of Stiks.
I experimented with all kinds of variations for the ellipses, including puffier, pointier, very regular, and wonky shapes, and, since I was drawing a bookshelf recently, even very straight like books askew on a shelf ... but ended up very much like the ellipses in the original. Drawing this made me happy in the same way I enjoy one of my favorites, Inapod. In trying to figure out why, I realized that besides the pleasure of drawing orbs and filling negative space with black, I always enjoy sparkling the pods of Inapod, so I sparkled this (eventually they started looking to me like dill pickles). I also remembered Margaret Bremner's post about Tipple, so on one of the strips of Stiks I experimented with placing the orbs so they kind of dropped via gravity.
Thanks for a fun week!


From VenaC (Whitby, Ontario, Canada) ~
Not entirely happy with this but as I am late already it will have to do. Still on holiday in a beautiful spot overlooking the water.


From Jody Genovese, CZT (New York) ~
You are right, Stikz is definitely a fun tangle. I took this one pretty literally and followed the string, but I couldn’t help myself with that tangle.
It reminded me of the xylophone toy we had as kids. Fun tile for me this week. Thank you as always.


From Sue Leslie, CZT 22 (New Mexico) ~
A broken string line of stikz between people at a yard sale today. And some munchin relaxin after the day. A fun day with a new tangle and a favorite tangle plus meeting and talking to lots of people. Some about Zentangle and some about our travel business and inviting them to join us on a fund raiser cruise next April for a veterans group with a zentangle element to it. Best part of the yard sale was selling a couple of my Zentangle bookmarks!.


From Sharon Fite (California) ~
Fun with Stikz and Munchin! I used the Ribbon Theory, so popular from Project Pack 3, and added Mooka with a Copic 0.1 Multliner in Warm Gray. Trying to stay cool!


From Cyndee Pelley (Oklahoma) and here on her blog ~
Hello and greetings from Oklahoma!
I went a bit crazy this week with Stikz and I'm not sure if it can still be classified as such, but I enjoyed it tremendously! Thank you so much for the longevity with your challenges as we enter another quarter century!


From Sharyn Penna, CZT (Massachusetts) ~
What a great tangle combination!!!
I’m running out of room!!! On the back of my IAST tiles, I record the IAST info and date and then I generally add a couple current events of the week. But this week was so eventful ... and elicited emotions that rivaled your string! Thankfully, tangling the tile untangled my heartstrings a bit.
Cheers to Laurel Spenseller’s Stiks and Maria’s and Rick’s Munchins. And cheers to you for yet another perfect pick of tangles!


A very warm welcome to Tina K (Germany) ~
I would like to join the IAST challenge for the first time.
Here is my tile for #251 Stikz & Munchin
Greetings from Central Germany.

Welcome to our IAST community and to our Tangled Map, Tina!





This is my tile ~
Stiks started out small and just flowed that way, so I followed along.  I added the orbs to Stiks and then spun them in an opposite curving direction.  After aura-ing, I used a lighter gray to add Muchin.
I have Jody Genovese to thank for the tip to use Derwent Graphik Graphite pen.



Many thanks for the continued good wishes for reaching 250+ challenges together and to everyone for sending in your lovely tiles and notes.

Thank you to Molly Hollibaugh for Munchin and to Laurel Spenseller for Stiks.  We had fun with your terrific tangles.

Check back Tuesday afternoon for "It's a String Thing" #252!