Catching Up and starting PTO

I've been doing the weekly tangle challenges, but have been neglectful in posting them. So I will catch up on these now. I am on PTO (supposed to be paid time off, aka vacation, but it's really pretend time off) in order to work on vacation bible school, which I've been working on a lot lately. More about that later after I roll through the challenges.

1. Diva challenge 172 - Duotangle of Auraknot and Mooka. Neither of these am I great at, but I think I'm starting to get the flow of them and experimented a bit with my Mooka style.

2. Made By Joey Challenge 13 - Tangle in a Circle. Key words: IN A. So I used a lid to create my circle. Then I did a "string" to make it look like one of the Roids. Then I selected using my handy dice randomizing 4 patterns: Peeks, Quandary, Sooflowers and Finery. I really like how it turned out.It was my first time doing Sooflowers, and that's one I hope to play with a bit more.

3. Tackle It Tuesday "O" - Artful Creations is back with the next letter O. Not sure if I love this as I did no shading on it to make it feel light and airy. Patterns I used are Onamato, Ojo, Opus and Organza.

4. It's a String Thing 45 - String 108 with patterns Diva Dance, Dex, Demi, Diamonds & Squares and Dooleedo. I didn't send this in on time, so this will just be posted here. All but Dex was new to me, but I enjoyed getting to know the rest. I especially liked Diva Dance and did it Rock N Roll style. I'm not sure I enjoyed the final product though.

5. Diva Challenge 171 - Beads of Courage. This was a challenge in honor of Artoo and all the beads he has earned by being such a sweet ( and cute) patient so many years. Some hospitals have these programs that have children who are frequently in the hospital earn beads each time they do something brave (like getting a procedure or getting a blood test).  I opted to do a heart (after all, that's where bravery comes from) of Bead by Bead and Stone Necklace and fill it with beads of Roids, Jetties and Cruffle and a center large bead of Paushalov and Queen's Crown with a dangle of Loveline. Yes. filled with Beads and Love. When I was doing this I was thinking of the girl that had been stabbed by her "friends" and how much recovery she will have.

6. It's a String Thing 44 - String 44 with Navaho, Nipa, Nzeppel, and Neuron. I actually liked what I did, but check the link to see some really great tiles.

7. Made by Joey Challenge 12 - EZ as Pie - use only patterns beginning with E or Z and optionally include pie. I had fun with this and basically made a drink and a vase with flowers with the pie - I don't like the fork, but otherwise I like it. It was different as I usually don't do pictures with my tangles.

8. Mojo Challenge 61 - Charlie, Pegs, Wartz and Page Curl. Other than Wartz, this was trying out new patterns again. When it was done, it either looked like a fish or a tree.

9. Mojo Challenge 45 - a little catch up with Keeko, J-Burst, Squell, and Dragonaire. Feeling a wave coming on...

I will go into the PTO and VBS in another post.

Late night tangling

Here it is 1a.m. and I am sitting here posting tangle tiles knowing that in a few hours I will be helping build pre-fab houses. But I've got my second wind so I thought I'd take advantage of it. Here are a few challenges I'm responding to this week.

I am the diva challenge #169: use circles for string. I used patterns (from inside out) Man-O-Man, Vega, Aa's, Meer, and Reticulated. I had put together the string using various common objects around the house as concentric circles lying to one side. I noticed Betsy Wilson had the same idea as I did (only executed it better than I).

Artful Creations' Tackle It Tuesday: the letter "N". Here I used N'Zeppel, Nipa, Navaho, Netting and Nvelope. I really like Navaho here, and I feel like I am starting to get the hang of N'Zeppel. 


















Made by Joey's weekly tangle challenge (which I had been meaning to do for a while, but hadn't gotten around to it) #10: use "10" as your string and use only tangles with straight lines and circles. Here is the string I made, followed by the completed tile, where I used Quare, Ahh, Up and Across, Purlbox, Navaho and Chartz.

Adele Bruno's It's A String Thing #42: using Tanglepatterns' String 038, do a monotangle/tangleation of Knightsbridge. I think I did 8 variations on this busy tile.

Finally, I joined the Line Weaving community, where they have weekly Mojo challenges. Here are 4 weeks I did:

Week 58: Camelia, Worms, DNA Chips and Diagonal

Week 57: Smokestack, Unme, Bowties, and Swirly Dot

Week 56: Chainging, Beelight, Sunny Grid and Barberpole

More later, I suppose....

Memorial Day

Yesterday was Memorial Day and I spent most of the weekend cleaning and changing over things from winter to summer. We are starting to enjoy our patio and the new chairs my mom gave us. I've started back at knitting and so spent some time doing that this weekend too. Yesterday, we went and saw a matinee show of the new X-Men movie. I did a couple of tiles last week, but have been remiss in posting them.

Here is the one for challenge #168 at I am the diva, which was a tangellation of Rain. I also added Aa's and 2-N-5 (Ar2 - Artoo)

And here is the one for Artful Creations' letter M challenge, where I used Maisie, Meer, Miander and Moonpie: