Hi y’all! We’re celebrating the first day of Spring today in the Northern Hemisphere with New York CZT Jody Genovese’s very lovely Patience tangle. Jody shared her Edgar tangle with us not so long ago.
She writes,
“I sort of stumbled upon this today while playing with Buttercup. Helen Williams had done a piece on it in her blog using a wonky grid, and I liked how it looked.
I started thinking I wonder if you could do something like this with a shape other than a square. I ended up with a triangle grid and went a little ‘nzeppel’ish with the petals.
I think it may have a lot of fun applications as it could be used for a border, or to fill up some space. I also think the petals could be embellished in many ways too.
I called it Patience because it reminded me of the Impatiens flower, which I found out is once again going to be hard to come by in NY this year because of a widespread downy mildew. I guess if we can’t have it in the garden we can have it on our Zentangle® tiles.
Such a pretty flower the Impatiens which has several nicknames including Touch me not and gets its name because of an interesting “survival of the fittest” trait:
Impatiens is a beautiful annual that makes an excellent houseplant or summer bedding plant. It is also known as “Busy Lizzie” and its name is a Latin word that describes the way its seeds shoot out of its pods when ripe (the slightest touch can make a ripe impatiens seed pod burst open and scatter its seeds).
While there are many varieties of Impatiens, this is the type most often seen in Florida throughout the winter months.
Impatiens walleriana, CC BY-SA 3.0, courtesy of Wikipedia
CZT Sandy Bartholomew’s Buttercup was the first tangle I attempted and I was captivated; it launched my Zentangle journey. While Jody’s Patience is indeed an easy tangle to do, one tip I might offer at Step 4 is to make sure that each triangle has six “legs” emanating from the orb at its center. And as Jody points out, there are many ways to embellish the petals of Patience in addition to the Buttercup-like strokes of the steps.
Jody illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Patience below and features it in a Zentangle tile with the Zentangle-originals Diva Dance and Shattuck with a touch of Onamato.
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March 20, 2017 | 
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Such a lovely tangle – looking forward to trying it!
Karen, thank you so much!
Jody, congratulations! It’s so lovely!
Hello Jutta! Thank you so much my friend. I appreciate the warm wishes from Germany!
Dear Jody! Many congratulations from Cologne :-)!!!
Patience is so beautiful and I loved tangling it!!!
I am so happy that everyone has the chance now tangling
your marvelous
pattern… it has so much potential….
Best wishes from Nadine and happy tangling 🙂
Hello Nadine and thank you for always being so supportive!
How inspiring, what a lovely tangle Jody. I will give it a try, though I think you named it very aptly as I think I WILL need an extra dose of ‘patience’ to do it as successfully as you have! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Sue..I was actually thinking one of your gorgeous gems would look perfect in the ’empty’ space between the flowers…You are being modest. I’ve seen the beauties you post!
I love your new tangle, Jody!! I’ve just drawn it & would have kept it going but I ran out of paper! 😉 Thanks for sharing it with us. 🙂
That is so funny Jan! So glad you like it !!
P.S. That should be !! Not ?? ?..I am not so great with a keyboard.. Thank you ?
I love flowers so I’m off to tangle. thank you for sharing.
I appreciate you taking the time to comment. Thank you!
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Thank you bernath..so kind ?
Wonderful, easy and cheerful tangle, can’t wait to use it!
Thank you Ria, so pleased you like it ??
Wow! I just love this flower tangle! The organic tangles are my very favorite. I can’t wait to try it! Thanks so much for sharing.
So glad you like it Beth! Thank you ??
Oh, this is fun! I had a tile colored purple, orange, and yellow and have been enjoying looking at it…waiting for the right pattern to put on it. And Patience was JUST the thing! It is just delightful.
HeidiSue if you have posted this somewhere I would love to see it! Sounds beautiful!! Thank you so much !
Like it very much. Have already used it in several projects.
Thank you Sandra..this makes me so happy. Glad you like..I just want to see what everyone is doing!! ?
Dear Jody, Since Nzeppel has been one of my favorite tangles, one look at Patience, combined with my love of organic shapes and flowers, I found your tangle to be really beautiful and fun to do. I ‘ve been decorating eggs for Easter, hopefully for a small fund raising. It looks beautiful. Thank you, Ellen Bruce CZT
Ellen I would love to see those! If you are on mosaic or FB please tag me.. I’m out there using my full name. Thank you!!
Very nice Jody! Nancy CZT18
Thank you Nancy.
Oh my! I finally had a chance to really look at this tangle since I got back home after 2 weeks away. It looks like so much fun to do. So, I will! 😀 Thanks for sharing this with us Jody!
Oops! Forgot to say that Impatiens are one of my favorite flowers. Love it!
Thank you Melena. I appreciate that and I love that flower too! Hope we can grow it again soon…
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very cute! thank you 🙂
I’m relatively new to zentangle and just came across your ‘Patience’ Jody. I love it! Such a meditative tangle. Thank you !!