The Diva Weekly Challeges #287 & #286

 This week on the Diva Challenge is a Use My Tangle challenge featuring Dreamcatcher by Daniel Lamothe

It is so simple, but offers so many possibilities! 
Here are my three attempts, all done in one evening, and I think I haven't finished yet. It's only a beginning. 
A filler, a grid (reticulum) or a string filled with other patterns - so many things to try and to play with. I feel like I am caught by this Dreamcatcher and stay with it for some (long) time ))). 

The other tanglers' results you will find here.

My tile from previous challenge - Weekly Challenge #286: "Straight to It"

Some shading before and after:

 Thanks for stopping by, I am really greatful for every your comment and looking forward to!


P.S. Update 11.10.2016

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Ghosts of Tangles Past - the Diva's Weekly Challenge #255 / Snowdrops & Drowsnops

 The task of this week is to go back into your own archives and recreate a tile from your past with your present style. So here are my tiles from the past (December 2014) and from the present (February 2016):

Patterns used: Balloya, Fescu, Diva Dance, Nipa, Printemps & Ennies. 

I'm not sure which one I like better, but the first tile I haven't got any more. So my attempt to recreate it was sort of nostalgic - but one can never enter the same river twice.

Snowdrops & Drowsnops

Yesterday in the newborn (15.02.2016) Facebook group "A Tangle Tip a Day" the focus of the day was "Snowdrops". I was not sure what it was (learned a new word!), so I had to google it:

In Russian this flower is called "podsnezhnik" = from under snow.

I played with this shape and came up with a new tangle "Drowsnops". This would be my second pattern, the first one is called "Ballehard" and is to be found in my Heart-shaped Tangle Patterns Inspirational Guide (I wrote about it in my previous post).

If you know, that pattern like this already exists, please leave me a note! And here is my Drowsnops zendala:

All those events happened yesterday and today on this grey and nasty morning look what I have found almost next to my door!

Thanks for stopping by! I am always happy to have your comments, so if you feel like doing it - please leave one! 

And don't forget to check all the other entries for the challenge on the Diva's blog - they are really worth seeing!

Valentine's Day Tangles

I'm not a "hearts & flowers" person, and have never celebrated the Saint Valentine's Day. 

To be true it is not in the tradition of Russian or Jewish culture, which both I belong to by birth and up-bringing. But I am always ready to participate in an interesting project. 

This time it was "Valentangle-2016" designed offered and hosted by Marguerite Samama, CZT 16. Two weeks of full inspiration and creativity booster!

It resulted in 21 ZIAs (14 of them 15x15 cm gelli preprinted tiles) and 58 bijou-size monotangles, all arraged in the Heart-shaped Tangle Patterns Inspirational Guide:

          

This e-book contains 24 pages (A4) and includes alphabetically-ordered illustrated heart-shaped tangle patterns guide with more than 50 direct links to step-outs and tutorials, inspirational picture gallery, coloring pages and empty guide grid for you to print out and practice tangles on your own.

And here is my tile created for the Diva Challenge: