Hanary comes to us from Japanese CZT Hiroko Matsuo and it’s her third tangle on the site.
Her lovely Sanaura tangle is one to keep in mind for your Valentine tangling. (BTW, you can find many more heart tangles on the site by going to the TANGLES BY TYPE section in the left sidebar and choosing hearts. Currently there are 50 of them!)
It’s wintery cold pretty much everywhere in our hemisphere, it’s even chilly (for us) here in South Florida. So I thought a floral-ish tangle like Hanary could perk us up with visions of Spring.
Hiroko writes,
I came up with this when I was looking at my Robin Pickens calendar one day. I buy Robin Pickens Seize The Day calendar every year.
Each month, encouraging words are written. Actually, September of 2018, I found the words of Goethe on this calendar and his words encouraged me to apply for the CZT Seminar 32 held the next month in October :
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.“~ Goethe
I named it ‘Hanary’ for some reasons. Flowers are called ‘Hana’ in Japanese. So I wanted to include ‘hana’.
Also, there is a Japanese word ‘Han-nari’ pronouncing just the same and meaning bright and graceful. If you change the first letter c of ‘canary’ to h, it is Hanary. So I think it is easy to be pronounced.
You can arrange Hanary in many ways. How many petals you draw, how many auras you add to the petals, whether or not you have a center circle, whether you make the center circle black or not. You can also make the petals like panda’s eyes, or you can add dots in the top circle of the watertower-like shape …
I hope everyone will enjoy his/her own way of arranging it.
Hiroko illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Hanary below where she includes several variations to explore and to spark your imagination.
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Check out the tag hirokom for more of Hiroko’s tangles on TanglePatterns.com.
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Hello, Hiroko – thank you for sharing/creating “Hanary” – I love it! It reminds me of the flower power days. I can’t wait to try this 🙂
Like this fun simple flower. Thanks for sharing
A pleasant pattern to embellish our tiles, thank you Hiroko!
This is such a sweet tangle. Thank you for sharing it, Hiroko.
Love this new Tangle! Thanks so much for sharing!
I love floral patterns and this one has fun possibilities. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you, Linda, for adding Hanary to your tangle list, and thank you, Glenys, Sue, Ria, Joyce, Beth and Barbara, for your comments. Please enjoy tangling, embellishing and adding variations to it. A friend of mine has just showed me Hanary can be used for tranzending too. Thanks again for all your warm words of support.
What a simple and pretty tangle, Hiroko! I just noticed it on Mosaic then thought to look here for the stepout. 🙂 Thanks for posting it, Linda!
Facil, divertida y brinda muchas posibilidades de jugar con ellas. Inspira la creatividad. Gracias. Y Feliz Año para todos.
Linda’s edit with the help of Google Translate:
Easy, fun and offers many possibilities to play with them. Inspire creativity. thank you And Happy New Year to all.
I love this tangle, florals are my favorite! Thanks for letting us embellish as we wish, endless possibilities!