Greetings my tangling friends, delighted to have you with me back for another week of fresh tangle inspiration! 🙂
Wish is our last tangle for the month of April and it’s from Illinois CZT Nancy Garcia. Wish is Nancy’s second on the site, most recently we explored her Zghetti.
Nancy explains how she came up with her Wish:
This started out as a filler and I was using it by itself or in a scattered grouping.
I then discovered it could be linked together in a ribbon of sorts. The more I played with it, the more it morphed into a border and a grid.
I am calling it Wish because I wish I could come up with a really cute name like so many others are able to do. *sigh*
Wish could easily have come from CZT Angie Gittles and her “dot series” of tangles (Obelus, Doodid, Dotty …). And in its free-form version Wish appears to share DNA with the Zentangle®-original Ahh. For my example of Wish I decided to go for the organized (!) grid-based version then when I looked at it I decided to have a little more fun with some graphite to create more pattern in the pattern. Then I thought about increasing the size of the orbs in the center of the diamonds for variety, but I resisted 🙂
Nancy illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Wish below and how to use it in a grid or a ribbon and as a free-form motif. In her duotangle tile Nancy included the Zentangle-original Verdigogh.
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April 29, 2024 | 
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The name of the pattern could very easily be “starflakes,” looking like a combination of snow flakes and stars when it’s in its loose form.
Such a fun and simple tangle to explore with endless opportunities! Another easy tangle to add to my collection