Welcome to the first day of Summer in the northern hemisphere!
Today we have an unusual tangle in that it was developed by a team.
Camreap is a pretty ribbon-style tangle from a group of Malaysian CZTs, and presented by CZT Susan Yeo. This group includes three CZTs Mici Soo, Jan, and Kit Low, along with CZT-to-be Yean Choo.
Susan writes,
While attending a conference in Siem Reap, Cambodia, the participants were invited to a community-based preschool.
Upon arriving, we were greeted by the villagers, teachers and children. Each of us was presented with a wrist-band made from the national flower of Cambodia, Blumdu. Blumdu is a very small flower but it has a very special aroma and its sweet scent reaches thousands of miles away, according to the villagers. The flowers are very popular among the people of Cambodia and are often used for making garlands and wrist-bands to welcome visitors or guests.
Blumdu wrist-band photo by Yean Choo
This pattern is inspired by the Blumdu wrist-band picture that was shared by our group member, Yean Choo.
We decided to call the pattern ‘Camreap’, which is from ‘Cambodia, Siem Reap’.
Susan Yeo illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Camreap below.
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June 21, 2017 | 
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Camreap is darling and I adore the flower variation of it! Thank you for sharing!!
Thanks for another lovely tangle!
Pretty tangle with lots of variations. TFS!
Great team effort! A beautiful tangle!
Laura Liu/Taiwan
Thank you TanglePatterns.com for selecting our tangle pattern! we are so excited and will continue to move forward! thanks!
I love this design. I am sad to say the interwebs does not have any info on the flowers shown. I wanted to learn more about them but no such luck.
Dear Victoria, you are such a wonderful person and take the time to do research on the flower. I tried to search through and found the flower of Cambodia should be Rumdul/Rumduol, and Yeah Choo confirmed this is the correct name.
As usual when I’m learning a new pattern, my hands don’t go where my brain does, so I ended up with a slightly different version of Camreap. Nonetheless, it’s very close to the original, and it came out rather “cute.” I also surrounded one variation with Helen Williams’ “Steps,” which tangle pattern I like VERY much, and it was a serendipitous combination.
This is going to be one of my “must use” patterns, being both easy, and very flexible.
This is a wonderful tangle and I love the tale of its origins…..thank you for sharing ??
I appreciate this stepout and the Refresher email directing me here.