How to draw ZUTTO — and Celebrating 12 Years of TanglePatterns!

626 weeks plus 1 day {{= 12 years}}.

That’s how long tangles have been coming your way since TanglePatterns began on May 4, 2010 until today’s 12th Tangleversary.

Here’s something else that’s 12 years old, I took the photo this week. Robert has grown orchids for many years, not as many today as in years past. But this sweet little Doritaenopsis was one he gave me for Easter in 2010 when she was in a tiny little 1-inch pot, and he has been nurturing her along with love and attention ever since. She’s been carefully transported as we’ve moved from St. Augustine to Palm Beach Gardens and now Port St Lucie too. He’s named her Doritaenopsis TanglePatterns. 🙂

Zutto felt like an appropriate tangle to share today to symbolize my love and appreciation for your support and dedication for keeping me company along this sweet Zentangle® journey of creative tangle exploration. I don’t want to divert your attention from Zutto so I’ll direct you to last year’s celebration for more on how I feel about this, and for your many beautiful comments too. Re-reading them gives me great joy!

Thank you all and May the fourth be with you! 😉

Zutto is a heart-based tangle from Japanese CZT Yuko Takamasu. It’s her first on the site and a 3D version of Helen Williams’s Heartline.

Yuko explains that she was thinking about an upcoming Zentangle class she was going to teach,

I wanted to make it a class that draws works using heart shapes.

Various ideas came to mind, but it’s the most fun pattern among them.

I love tangles like ribbons and tangled tangles.

This pattern has a single ribbon to create a heart shape forever.

So I’d like to name this pattern “Zutto”.

“Zutto” is a colloquial word meaning eternity in Japanese.

I found I needed several practice runs to get Zutto where I wanted it, but hey, the journey is the destination, right? I learn something new with each go around and achieve a sense of accomplishment when I get it to my satisfaction. My recommendation: go big on this one.

Yuko illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Zutto below and demonstrates it as a ribbon in a sweet tile embellished with the Zentangle-original Doodah and some “stitching”.

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4. How to use the site — an excellent free video tutorial showing how to use the site as well as pointing out lots of useful features you might have missed.
5. Linda's List of Zentangle-Original Patterns — here is the complete list of original tangles (aka "official tangles") created and introduced by founders Rick Roberts and Maria Thomas, including those not published online. If you are new to the Zentangle Method I highly recommend learning a few of the published Zentangle classics first.
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