It's a String Thing #142

This week, over at Tickled to Tangle, Adele Bruno

has set another unusual challenge. I'll let her give 

the challenge in her own words:

 "Begin with the tangles: Quib and Echoism

As for the string, you will create it by tangling Quib first.
Begin with two dots, placed on opposite ends of your tile, 

in any direction you prefer. They can be diagonal, 

north and south, east and west - just so they are on 

opposite ends of the tile. By doing so, you will divide your 

tile into sections using Quib as your string - great fun!
You have the option to tangle more Quib, 

or use Echoism to complete your tile."

I really like both tangles very much, but I had a devil of 

a time putting them together to meet this challenge. 

After working on it off and on for a couple of days; I gave up, 

and started over. This time I tried doing white ink on a 

black tile. I liked it a little better; but still wasn't happy. 

So I went back to the original black on white tile, 

and tried adding some shading. That seemed to do the trick.

Here are both of them:

At this point, I'm kind of bleary-eyed; and I don't know 

which I prefer. What do you think?

  Be sure to check out all the entries @ Tickled to Tangle, on Monday afternoon, when Adele Bruno posts them. The vast differences that can be achieved using the same tangles on the same string are truly incredible. And, if you've a mind to try a String Thing yourself, check back on Tuesday afternoon,
when she offers the new ones.

Joey #110

This week Joey is continuing using Roman Numerals 

for the string; namely X:

 

 And although the string has 4 sections; 

she's given us 5 tangles to work with:

Diva Dance, Showgirl, Snookum, Ticking, and Wedge.

I have a feeling that everyone (or at least most tanglers 

taking the challenge) are, or will be using Snookums 

along the string line or lines. It certainly was the path

of least resistance (and a no-brainer) for me. 

Take a look at Joey’s site to see the other entries, 

and maybe try one yourself.

 

Diva's #265: Stripes

 The last couple of weeks, Ive done the Diva's challenges, 

but couldn't seem to finish them. Just too much going on;

so I wanted to be sure to finish and post this week's. 

Especially because I like the format so much. I hope to

get back in the swing of things soon. But for now,

at least here's this week's tile.

This week's challenge is Stripes; one of my all-time favorites. 

I took a slightly different approach this time. Instead of having 

all the stripes go in the same direction, I placed some of them 

at a right angle to the others. I like the resulting effect.

Be sure to visit the Diva's site to see the other wonderful 

entries; it's amazing how different all the responses are. 

Maybe you'll be inspired to try out one of the challenges yourself.

Joey's Weekly Challenge #109

Over at Joey's Weekly Challenge, 

we are continuing using Roman Numerals as 

the string; in this case IX:

 

And the tangles to use are;

Betweed

Demi

Gingham

Mei

Mooka

Ragz,

and Zinger

I used all except Mooka:

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 Last week, I didn't finish Joey's Challenge #108,
which, of course was Roman Numeral VIII
 
using

Crescent Moon

Fandango

Marnie

and
N'Zeppel 

While I like Crescent Moon, and use it often, 

I just couldn't fit it in very well.

And I'm not much of a fan of N'Zeppel; 

but somehow it wormed it's way into the tile, 

anyway. Not so well done, but it's there.

 

Take a look at Joey’s site to see the other entries, 

and maybe try one yourself. 

Joey's Challenge #107, Roman Numeral VII

This week, the string for Joey's Challenge
continues using Roman Numerals 

Since it's Challenge #107, the Roman Numeral is VII:

            

The tangles chosen are:

Queen's Crown
Gotcha
Zailz
Nipa

Here's my take:

I used all four of the tangles. 

Check out Joey's site to see the other entries.
          

It's a String Thing #139

This week's String Thing from Adele Bruno 

over at Tickled to Tangle is #139, and uses 

Adele's String of the same number;

and the tangles selected are:

Betwixt, Chillon,Tagh.

Here's my take on it:

I used all 3 tangles.

Many other Tanglers have stated that photographing 

their tiles gives them truer colors than scanning them.

I don't find that necessarily true; they usually seem to 

come out more yellow, as in this case. But unfortunately,

I'm having serious problems with my Laptop, and had to 

take it in for repairs. So I'm doing this on my iPad; which,

of course, has no scanner. I'll tell you, it's not been fun. 

Everything takes forever. I suppose if I had to do it more

often, I'd learn what I need to know.

That said, I've gotten this far; so now I have to figure 

out how to add a link so you can all go over to 

Tickled to Tangle Monday afternoon and see 

all the other entries. And Tuesday afternoon, 

she posts the new challenge.

(Well, I think I did it)

Diva's Challenge #262, UMT; Fassett

Usually, I save all my weekly challenges 

and post them together, but that usually means 

I end up posting them at the very last minute. 

So this week I decided to post them as I finish them.

This being the first Monday of the month, it's UMT,

or Use My Tangle, and the Tangle is Fassett, by Lynn Mead.

While looking to find a compatible string, 

I came across #129 by Nancy Smith. 

It just seemed like the perfect start, so I went with it:

Be sure to visit the Diva's site to see the other wonderful entries; it's amazing how different all the responses are. Maybe you'll be inspired to try out one of the Challenges yourself.

Diva's Challenge #261: Bijou Stack

Jane Reiter, CZT, is the Diva's Guest Blogger this week; 

and she's come up with a fascinating challenge: 

Start with a Bijou tile (2" square). Cut 5 squares of   

mat board,  card stock, recycled cardboard, 

watercolour paper  or Bristol board in 

 successive sizes to correspond to the Bijou tile:  

3”, 4”, 5”, 6”, and 7” squares. 

Tangle the Bijou tile with any tangle (or tangles) of 

your choice, then tangle the borders of the larger squares. 

This is a good opportunity to use border tangles, 

or any linear style tangle.

Here are mine before stacking:

 

and here is the finished stack:

 I thought I was going to do a few of these, but those 

5 borders took much more time than I'd expected. 

But I really like the concept, and I know that I'll

try it again, perhaps in color.

Be sure to visit the Diva's site to see the other wonderful 

entries; it's amazing how different all the responses are, 

especially with this technique. Maybe you'll be inspired 

to try out one of the Challenges yourself. 

Joey's Weekly Challenge #106, and It's a String thing #138

This week's Roman Numeral String from Joey is VI:

and any Tangle patterns of our choice.

I used:

Betweed and Paradox, both official tangles, 

and X-It, my tangle pattern:

Take a look at Joey’s site to see the other entries, 

and maybe try one yourself.

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Over at Tickled to Tangle, Adele Bruno has come up 

with a new concept: Create a monotangle of Citrus 

(her new tangle) and then fill in the sections 

with pattern/s of your choice.

Here's what I came up with:

I used Citrus as the String, as well as a fill, 

and Paradox, Betweed, Meer, Prestwood, and Heartswell.

Be sure to check out all the entries @ Tickled to Tangle, on Monday afternoon, when Adele Bruno posts them. The vast differences that can be achieved using the same tangles on the same string are truly incredible. And, if you've a mind to try a String Thing yourself, check back on Tuesday afternoon,
when she offers the new ones.