The Grammarchist

Diva 277 and Joey 123

I skipped out on Diva’s “moving” challenge because I prefer to do my tangling while sitting still. But this week’s challenge, “circles” was right in my wheelehouse (see what I did there?) I started with this for my string: The outermost ring is a CD — the template I usually use for the Zendala things I do obsessively and that I’ll get around to posting someday. The other circles are various other…

Joey’s Challenges

I’ve done a lot of tangling lately but not a lot of blogging. A lot on my mind but no energy to blog about it all, probably because of having so much on my mind. On the other hand, I’ve managed to upload pictures of some of my recent work, including the most recent Made by Joey Challenge plus a few stragglers: Joey Challenge 122: Made By Joey Challenge 122 Okay, so the shading’s a little sloppy,…

So much on my mind. Someday I’ll actually sit down and blog about it… Joey Challenge 121 Joey Challenge 121 The string for the week’s challenge was a peace sign with the suggested tangle “Organic.” This is one that never seems to come out exactly as I want it, but I think I got a good effect this time. I also used Paradox, which has always been one of my favorites. Diva Challenge #275: Give Peace…

Two really fun challenges this past week! Diva’s Challenge #270: Skye Diva’s Challenge 270: Skye Skye  is a new tangle pattern that’s pretty tricky but has a bold look that I really like. I decided it would play nicely with the most recent string on Tanglepatterns.com, number 211. I also figured this would be a fun time to play around with some “sky” themed tangles. I’ve got the sun (Sonnenband,…

Made By Joey Challenge 114 Roman Numeral XIV As I understand it, this is the penultimate Joey Roman Numeral challenge. But hey, I can always continue them: it’s not like I’ll run out of Roman Numerals, although it will probably be hard to string something like MDCCCLXXII. I decided pretty quickly that the big spaces above and below the numeral should be great big barber poles, then it was pretty…

Hello one and all! I’m actually posting challenges from the last 2 weeks because my life has been so crazy lately. I suppose I’ll start with the more recent ones: Diva Challenge 268 Diva Challenge 268 This challenge was called “A bit-o-black.” I decided pretty quickly that I wanted to do something with a lot of black pearls. so I focused on orb-y patterns. The string, randomly selected from…

I got these done really quickly this week and got by the magic scanning machine, so I thought I’d go ahead and post them. Here’s my Diva piece: Diva Challenge 266 This used a pretty little tangle called “Crux.” I like grid tangles, and I see a lot of options for playing around with it. I did one section with a normal grid and a Yincut style fill; I also did one warped grid with stars and another…

As well as weekly challenges of challenging weeks… Today was just exhausting. While getting ready for church, my youngest, Princess Lala (2 1/2 years going on 17) went into full meltdown mode while we tried to get her dressed (she turned into sweet little porcelain angel as soon as she got to Sunday School, of course). Then in the middle of service, almost-6-year-old DK went into one of his epic…

Diva and Joey Challenges

Man, what a week. All week it’s been either raining or looking like it’s about to rain. Today (Friday) and tomorrow are the only days in the next two weeks that didn’t have rain forecast. Welcome to Spring, Texas style. And speaking of Springs, here’s my ZIA for Diva’s most recent challenge: Diva Challenge 264 Did I go a little overboard with it? Probably. But it was fun. For the string, I…

Diva and Joey Challenges

Hello again! As I’ve mentioned previously (not to rub it in, Canadianians), it’s spring in North Texas, which means that the weather has no idea what it’s going to be from one moment to the next. I’m about ready to bust out my collection of Aloha shirts (I own over two dozen), but I’m worried that if I do it will trigger a snowstorm. Last weekend I went with my family and my in-laws to…

Happy April, everyone! I’m sure all of you people living in Canadia and other cold places will appreciate that here in Texas it’s pretty much been spring since February. Actually, we pretty much didn’t have a winter here. Maybe that’s not a great thing? Anyway, the weather’s been pretty nice except for when we’ve had our typical springtime apocalyptic thunderstorms. None of this is at all…

It hasn’t been a great week. Or really, March. There’s a lot in my head right now I’d like to blog about, but I’m just going to go straight to the challenges of the Zentangle kind and maybe talk about some personal challenges later. First off, I’ve discovered a new set of challenges at the blog of Diane and Carolien who have set a series of weekly alphabetical challenges — each week is a set of…

Tangle Saxon Runes Again

Part of a continuing personal challenge; see the previous entries here, here, and here 12. ᛄ Ger [j], “year, harvest” Tangle Saxon Rune Ger I admit I’m cheating on this one a bit phonetically. The “ger” rune represents the sound [j], represented in English by the consonant “y.” But there isn’t a “j” rune, or at least not one representing the “j” sound [dʒ]. The sound itself is relatively common…