How to draw ELANCE

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And now for today’s pretty tangle …

Elance tangle is from Guernsey tangler Sarah Harrison who recently shared her Mika and Keeta tangles with us. Elance is Sarah’s fifth on the site.

Lately I’ve been getting quite a few tangles that can be the focal point of a tile. It’s amazing how a center starting point of a simple orb or square or triangle can produce so many different and lovely outcomes. Two early examples of this on the site are CZT Vicki Bassett’s pretty Biscus and Showgirl, tangles she deconstructed pre-CZT 🙂

Sarah writes:

I am so excited about this new pattern i came up with in the early hours of the morning.

The name came from a bull that i named when i used to run a farm. His mum was called Elegance. I thought the pattern looked very Elegant but didn’t want elegance. So it got his name which was Elance.

So simple yet very effective. Lots of potential for variations as well.

When drawing it my only advice would be when you start the ‘fins’ in step 2 make sure it goes straight inline with the shape in the first step.

I have also included a couple of variations one being the lines in step 4 once over half way, they curve the other way. The other one is neat with the same amount of fins. Step 6 shows it with a triangle instead of a square. It can easily be done with any starting shape.

Sarah illustrates the step-by-step instructions for drawing Elance below where she includes the additional version of it formed with a triangle as Step 1.

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