The honor of the last heart tangle before Valentine’s Day tomorrow {which doesn’t by any means eliminate others in the future!} goes to Wisconsin tangler Lynn Hensley and Heartsmeet is her first tangle on the site.
Lynn introduces herself,
“I live in Neenah, WI in the heart of the Fox River Valley. Wisconsin has a large paper industry & Neenah is the original home of Kleenex®.
I have always expressed myself through sewing & knitting and never thought that I could draw until a friend mentioned Zentangle. I had never heard of it, so looked it up on line & got some books. That’s all it took to get me completely hooked!
I discovered Zentangle.com & TanglePatterns.com, then found CZT Cathy Staeven right here in Neenah! I’ve been attending just about every class that she teaches & have met some interesting & inspiring tanglers in those classes.
As Valentine’s Day approaches, I found myself fooling around with hearts & came up with this grid. It lends itself to variations in how and whether you fill in the spaces or aura them.
I also experimented with it as a border & it works quite well; with or without the squares.”
Heartsmeet has companion hearts-in-a-grid tangles in CZT Mina Hsiao’s Mi, and Helen Williams’ Heartfully. Lynn has found yet another way to fit hearts in a grid, and as she points out it works without a grid too.
Lynn illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Heartsmeet below where she features it in a pretty ZIA monotangle tile. To add the color to her ZIA, Lynn used the brush tip end of Tombow Dual Brush Pens and blended it out with the colorless blender pen.
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“lovely” and very pleasant grid tangle, I like this pattern!
Heartsmeet is lovely!! Great job!
Awesome. Until I saw Heartsmeet, I had not considered a heart as a fragment. Lots of possibilities taking that approach.
Pretty!
Happy Valentines Day! A fun heart play for sure.
Heartfelt is lovely to draw and very intuitive it can be done without the grid easily. A great tangle for teaching children. It can be uploaded into a cricut machine to make cards. You can also make them outline hearts. Thanks for reminding us to work with our heart.