Monday, July 29, 2013

Challenge 129: String Theory XXV - String #4

So nice to have the day off and have time to do my weekly challenge.  After a very soggy weekend in Saugatuck, MI nice to be able to have a nice day to tangle with the windows open.  I decided to try a new way to choose tangles for this challenge and created a random selection using tanglepatterns.com.  By using my iPad I brought up the website and then randomly clicked on a letter A-Z at the top and then randomly chose one of the patterns that came up for the letter.  I sometimes have students ask me about how to choose tangles and do I balance them, etc.  Finding a random way to choose tangles is a great way to take away the pressure you can sometimes feel to choose "the right tangles"  Give it a try and see how it works for you.

Tangles: Loblolly, Queen's Crown, Dex, Japonica, Good Joss, Ninja Stars

Happy Tangling!

10 comments:

  1. I like the black-on-white white-on-black mix. I also choose patterns randomly similar to your style.

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  2. Great work! I like the pattern in the upper left corner and I think I've never seen it before. Did you create this pattern?

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    1. The upper left corner has a tangelation of loblolly which you can find on tanglepatterns.com.

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  3. Dex is one of my favourites, beaut mix of tangles!

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  4. The upper left corner reminds me of a little blanket of snow.

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  5. Sometimes I will randomly choose also. Once I numbered all the tangles in my notebook, then used a random number generator to choose. I love how your tile turned out. It's beautiful.

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  6. Lovely tile! Nice choice of tangles. Great job!

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  7. I really like the boldness of this and some unusual tangles you chose.

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  8. Your tile is great, I like the boldness.

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  9. A beauty!! I see I have used some same tangles as you did like the flowers to fill a space, and the Queen's crown around the loop. And yet it is so different. I like that part of these challenges, we all have the same basic starting point and so many creative outcomes in al the drawings.

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