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:

Frustration

This has been a frustrating week and it's only Wednesday morning. Sigh.

So, last Thursday/Friday, my CPAP decided it didn't like its SD card - you know, that thing that controls the pressure etc. So on Monday, I called my sleep doctor/clinic that gave it to me. Um, they shut down in December - no notice, nothing. And the records went to another place, who said they are terrible and they can't help me - I needed to talk to the equipment company (who didn't give me the machine). I call the equipment company and it is 48-72 hours before they will return the call. In the meantime I can't use my CPAP machine.

Then yesterday, I go to workout and I notice that I have no cell service. I don't think anything of it until I look again at work and there's nothing there. Only wireless. I can't make or receive a call or text. I take it to the store, they can't fix it. It's the SD card that's gone bad. Now I have to take it to another place to get it (hopefully) repaired. So I spent most of last night saving data, writing down apps and logins and contact info in case I lose it all when they fix it today. There was also some temporary frustration with work-related report testing, but that finally worked out.

The rest of last night I worked on my tile for the String Thing #40 challenge posed by Adele at Tickled to Tangle.I had never done Beadlines before, and I didn't like Betweed before, but I think I got the hang of it this time. And I had done and liked the other two, Beeline and Beelight. I like the way the tile turned out.

Quick

Just a quick post of some tangles.

In response to I am the Diva's challenge #167, here is my first duotangle using only the two Zentangle patterns Punzel and Well. Happy Birthday, Diva! I had never done either before this challenge, so I did practice a bit. I don't care for the way Punzel does not flow from my hands, but I liked Well, even though I messed up a bit on one section of it, and played with it on my tile. Here is the result:

And a quick response to Artful Creations' "L" challenge. I liked her new pattern "Lori" so much I incorporated it into my tile. Joining Lori are tangle patterns Lachrymose, Lokomotive, La Bel, Laced, Lettuce Farm, Lacy and Logjam. Whew, I packed a lot of L's into this tile - oh yeah, the string was even the letter "L" (below it is on its side).

Celebrations

This week I actually finished two tangle challenges by Wednesday, but have been unable to post them as I was out of town Thursday and Friday. My cousin graduated from University of Tennessee with his Ph.D. officially, then yesterday my husband found out he got another A for one of his class. So we celebrated that too. These celebrations meant a lot of traveling and a lot of eating out. I wish I had taken a picture of it, but I tangled the graduation cards to my cousin. I plan on doing a Mother's Day card tonight too.

Here is the tangle I did for the Diva challenge #166: I enjoyed her new tangle pattern very much and thought of satellites for some reason.I hinted a little at Pweeko within the pattern, but also included Tiding, Laced and Greating in the tile and used string #17 by Joyce Bruns.

Tackle It Tuesday challenge of K patterns where I used string #11 by Yamit Fridman and patterns Keenees, Kuzek, Knightsbridge Kunstler and Keeko.

Happy Mother's Day in advance!!

And then there were three...

Three tangles this week - some were challenging.

First up, the weekly Diva Challenge #165 - this was a UMT (Use My Tangle) challenge and we were challenged to use Anne Marks' pattern Camelia. At first this was challenging to learn, but eventually I got the hang of it. I decided to spice it up a little by also using one of Anne Marks' string patterns from the Tangle Patterns site. I used String #71, with patterns Camelia (of course), Puf, Nipa, Warped Eggs and Kunstler.

Next up is the weekly letter challenge at Cheryl's Artful Creations: J!! I used string #91from David Rae, then used tangle patterns: Japonica, Jeewels, Jetties, Jonqal and Jalousie with bordering of Joy and Jambalee.

Finally, at Tickled To Tangle, the challenge was in celebration of Tangle Patterns' 4th anniversary on May 4th. So we were to use String #38 (which looks like a "4"), and 4 A patterns: Aquafleur, Aura Leah, Axlexa and AA's. I had only ever tried Axlexa before this challenge, so there was quite a bit of learning here too. I really like the flow and fun of AA's, but I seriously do not care for Aquafleur - I had to constantly do over and over again in pencil because I could not get it to look anything like it should. There was nothing fun or relaxing about it for me. Other than Aquafleur, I did enjoy the challenge, though. So, without further ado,,,

And so I anticipate a very busy weekend: Free comic book day, interNational Scrapbooking Day, and May the 4th be with you day.