How to draw B-TWIXT

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Today’s B-Twixt tangle is from Michigan tangler Randi Wynne-Parry who’s attending one of this month’s seminars to become a Certified Zentangle Teacher. B-Twixt is her first tangle on the site.

Randi introduces herself:

I’ve been tangling since February 2013 when I attended a class at the Bay Library in Bay Village, Ohio with my daughter to make Valentines. I was searching for an activity to do with my daughter who had graduated from college recently but was still living at home.

I am also a Certified Knitting Instructor through the Craft Yarn Council of America since about 2000. I teach knitting as much as possible and am currently teaching in a Central Michigan University Gerontology Club intergenerational group teaching students and elderly.

She describes her tangle:

This could possibly be a tangleation of (the Zentangle®-original) Betweed – one of my all time favorite tangles. But it is created differently. I have thus far, three variations: all straight lines, curved lines, and rounded ends.

It starts with a single triangle. The triangles can be uniform or all different sizes and shapes.

For the curved ones, I used triangles with concave and convex sides — some look like shark fins, some look like bloated triangles — all very random.

While the inside of each triangle is like Betweed it’s the way they are built upon each other randomly that makes it different.

B-Twixt is a fun tangle to experiment with because in addition to the uniform or random size and shape triangles Randi mentions, turning each triangle in different directions changes the end result considerably. (Much like how Paradox changes shapes depending on how you orient the triangles and where you begin the first stroke in each.) You can also draw it within a totally random triangular “grid” as shown here in Step 1 of CZT Lynn Mead’s Fassett, or in any of the example grids Lynn shows in her second illustration.

And note that when you add rounding as Randi has down the left side in her example tile below, it takes on a lovely softer look that’s quite different. One tangle, lots of possibilities!

Randi demonstrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing B-Twixt below.

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