Here’s a tangle pattern from down under – Sydney, Australia, to be precise. Australian Deanne Stewart-Mills was working on deconstructing Celtic knot patterns and came up with her pattern Celtic.
Deanne is a freelance paper arts and crafts teacher. She teaches cardmaking classes, and knitting and crochet. Many of her projects have been published in Australian magazines such as Stamping and Papercraft (now called Cardmaking, Stamping & Papercraft), Australian Paper Crafts, Creative Cardmaking and Papercraft and Scrapbook Creations.
I have been tangling since the end of April (this year) and I am passionate about it. I have taught cardmaking for nearly 7 years and I am always on the lookout for interesting things. I have been into art and creativity since I was a little girl (I am now 42). I am a huge fan of MC Escher and this art form really reminds me of that, which is probably how it caught my interest. I have always loved drawing, but stopped doing it for a long time (too many other hobbies got my attention) and I am very pleased to be back into it again, as a result of discovering Zentangle.
I am really pleased that I finally worked out that the Celtic pattern begins with a simple zig zag. Once I got that, it was easy going to deconstruct. Celtic takes a little practice but is really quite easy once you have had a few goes at it. The look of Celtic can be varied by changing the height of the zig zag, and the length (a higher zig zag creates a larger celtic design).
I found Celtic required my full concentration to get the lines to meet up, and as Deanne points out it certainly does take a little practice. As you can tell from comparing Deanne’s drawing below to my example above she’s had a lot of practice. And me? Not so much 
Deanne illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing her tangle pattern Celtic below.
Check out the tag deannesm for more of Deanne’s patterns on TanglePatterns.com.
Wow! That was hard!! I went cross eyed for a bit but hung in there and got it!! Thanks for the great pattern!!
Thanks Kelly. Glad you like it.
Wow, I am so glad you liked this. To tell the truth, the design is actually very easy for me to draw and I don’t really seem to need to concentrate too much. I might just have a strange brain lol!
I hope you enjoy this pattern. I will be scanning and uploading some tangles I have made using the Celtic within the design, as well as it being the main ‘string’ for the tangle.
Thanks again Linda for publishing my design. Its very exciting
Deanne
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I can’t draw to save myself, but even I could probably follow these instructions. I like a needle in my hand or to sit at the sewing machine, but I am so proud of my daughter for her ability to draw and tangle and also to be able to pass her skills on to others, as not everybody can do that.
Charlene
thanks mum xx
Congratulations Deanne. This art is certainly taking off.
Love to do it myself.
thanks Rae
I’m having trouble with Celtic directions – seems like a step is missing between 2-3 or maybe 3-4. Help!
Hi Kathie, there aren’t any steps missing. Are you following them the right way around? It does take a little concentration to draw it at first.
Kathie, I hope you have managed to work it out.
For anyone who would like to see, I have 2 tangles on my blog and also in the Zentangle flickr photostream which use the Celtic tangle.
To visit my blog: http://www.mystampingplace.blogspot.com
to see my flickr stream in the Zentangle group: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21206021@N07/
Deanne I cant wait for our workshop on 7th July sooo looking forward to it..Your a STAR …
Now I know how to do a celtic string! After looking through many celtic knot books and giving up on working out how to do them it made a lot of sense. How clever. I am calligrapher and wanted to do something celtic to finish my uncial script projects Many thanks.
Hey Peggie, thanks. Just saw your comment now (lol, I’m just a little behind the times hehe).
Dee
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