This very clever tangle pattern deconstruction comes from Australian tangler, Lyndel Churchill from Tasmania‘s capital city of Hobart. Knyt is Lyndel’s first pattern on the site.
Knyt is an interesting combination of simple steps requiring your concentration. Don’t attempt, as I did in my first efforts, to start out the first step joining each of the strokes as one line. It doesn’t work. Obviously, I wasn’t paying attention! As with many tangles, Knyt really pops when you add a touch of shading.
Lyndel introduces herself:
“I’m very new to Zentangle, I only started in late April this year but am already obsessed. My Mum gave me a DVD by Jane Monk about Zentangle and quilting and I started drawing straight away and love it! I work part-time for our State Government and live with my husband and nine-year-old son just south of Hobart. In my spare time (before Zentangle) I do digital scrapbooking and other miscellaneous crafts as my mood takes me.
Since starting to draw tangles I have been much more aware of shapes and textures around me. Last weekend on the way home from my son’s soccer game I was studying the texture of a scarf my mother had knitted for me. I couldn’t wait to get home and grab a pen and paper to see if I could find a way to draw the texture. It came together really quickly and I am really quite thrilled with the result. :-)”
Lyndel illustrates the steps for drawing her Knyt tangle below along with a sample of what you can do with it.
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Have fun with this one!
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July 16, 2012 | 
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This is great! Thanks Lyndel.
At first I wondered how to pronounce it, then I saw the tangle!
As a person who knits, I just love this new tangle. Can’t wait to try it.
Wow – this is a brilliant new tangle! Thank you Lyndel and Linda!
Love this, reminds of the jumpers I knitted when the children were small
Very clever pattern, love it.. thanks Lyndel
That is a patters knitting. Never thought to incorporate into my tangles.
Wonderful, it really looks like knitting, very clever. Thanks for an inspiring tangle.
I love this, thank you for sharing. I am an avid knitter and am at present teaching some ladies how to knit at our church. I have also introduced them to Zentangle. They are loving both.
Wow, this is great! What a clever pattern. As a lifelong knitter, this is definitely one for me to try. Thanks for sharing.
as a textile artist, this is great
Awesome!!!and thanks for sharing!
Super! I love it Lyndel.
This is a wonderful and clever patern. Steps are easy and effective. I can already feel the flexibility of the pattern. Love the look of it and i will enjoy drawing it very much.Thank you!
Yay, go the Aussies!! great stuff Lyndal, so glad youre addicted, I look forward to more of your lovely creativity. Well done
You did a fantastic job of taking something that looks so conplex and making the steps so easy. Thanks.
This is great! Can’t wait to try it. I hope it’s as easy as you made it look.
Thanks for the tip, Linda. I absolutely would have started the same way! 🙂
Thanks so much for sharing, Lyndel! Love this pattern!
Cool!
From someone who crochets and knits, I love this pattern! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you all for your generous comments. Makes me happy! I would love to see what you all do with it. 🙂
This is quite a challenge as I’m new to Zentangle. I love it = but certainly have not made kynt look anything like knyting but more tangled up…
THanks
What a clever deconstruction. I love it!
Love this tangle. The loose threads make it more interesting.
Thanks Wendy. I can imagine a piece of knytting with a raggedy hole in it and something poking through. But my skill level isn’t at the point – yet 🙂
Knyt is challenging but I’m starting to get the hang of it. I love the way it looks. I played with it today, and I’ve posted a few variations at the end of this blog post:
http://www.tanglebucket.blogspot.com/2012/07/weekly-challenge-80-mi2-with-side-of.html
I’m looking forward to seeing what else I can do with it! Thanks for a fun pattern!
Love what you’ve done with it Sandy.
This pattern is so simple and cute being someone who has crocheted and knitted since they were 7 this is great. LOVE it thanks for sharing.
This is totally awesome. Thank You. Just started myself in Feb.I’m hooked for sure myself.
Thanks for this great pattern. When I first tried Knyt in my tangles, I thought as interesting as the construction of it was, it looked a little ho-hum in the finished tile. Then I filled the background in solid black, and what a difference! Now it is one of my favorite strong contrast patterns.
Thanks Antonine, it’s great to hear people are having fun with the pattern. Check out Sandy Hunter’s link above and the gorgeous work of Helen Williams – http://alittlelime.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/so-so-much-knyt-ing-my-hands-are-tired.html
This is a fun tangle!
Hi Lyndel,
I have just discovered Zentangles & I am very keen to do a workshop + the certified training course at some point. I’ a textile tragic, I knit like a woman possessed (according to my husband) actually I just love time away from my dhhs day job to play with texture, colour & images. I live in Lutana – where are you? Cheers Donna Oakford
Hi Donna, you sound like my Mum, she’s a textile artist and is always coming up with some amazing thing. Wrist problems slowed my knitting down before it got out of hand 🙂 but I did knit a blanket using strips cut from t-shirts last year. I’m in Blackmans Bay. Are you related to Mike and Vincent at all?
As a knitter, I love this!!
Hope we will get a stockinette stitch version. Oooh, then we could combine the two to make guernsey tangles haha