Challenge 115: "Amanda Day" - Earth Day

This week's challenge is in honor of Earth Day and it immediately made me think of the elements that make up our wonderful Earth: Water, Fire, Air and Earth.  So I set out on my quest to find a tangle that represented each and here is what I came up with:

Tangles: Lamar (Water), Flying Geese (Air), Candle Glow (Fire), Sand Swirls (Earth)

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New Tangle: Sparkool

Sparkool is my newest tangle and a labor of love.  I had been trying to come up with the steps to  this pattern for several months, but just couldn't get it quite right.  It always came out lopsided or it was WAY too many steps.  I would pick it up from time to time and give it a try - but it just wasn't working.  Oh well.  I decided it might be time to move on and so I started working on another pattern, that seemed totally unrelated at first and low and behold it gave me just what I needed to make Sparkool work!  Once I had it, it seemed like it was so easy.  That is the beauty of the tangles.  I thought that maybe this already existed and searched through Tanglepatterns.com to see if anyone else had already come up with it and couldn't find anything.   The first three steps are similar Sadelle Wilthshire's Bandola - the end result is very different.  So here it is.  It has so many variations that can be added to give your tile just what it may need.  

Sparkool

by Lara Williams, CZT

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New Tangle: LinQ

I love this tangle!  I was surprised how it just sort of was born within 5 minutes of the first stroke.  I was working hard on trying to develop another tangle, that I still haven't quite gotten down and I took a break.  I made the first stroke and linked it up to the first and it just took off from there.  I think this is another very versatile tangle that allows you to take it further and has many possibilities for tangleations.  

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New Tangle - Tuscadero

My newest tangle is called Tuscadero.  The name comes from my friend Carol who said she thought it would make a great name for a tangle, and she was RIGHT!  I found this tangle while perusing an art deco design book I have.  It immediately called to my inner child.  I love the playfulness of this tangle and the Dr. Suess quality of it.  I hope you have as much fun with it as I have.

Tuscadero

by Lara Williams, CZT

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New Tangle - Ojo

I just recently went through some old tangling stuff and found sketches of patterns I found in some library books several years ago - way before my blog and the thought of putting my own patterns out there.  Here is the first which I call - OJO.  As I was coming up with the steps I first thought it looked like a bug and then I noticed that it looked like an eye with really long pretty eye lashes.  My long ago experience with Spanish immediately brought up the word for eye in Spanish and voila (that's all the french i know) we have OJO.  

OJO 

By Lara Williams, CZT

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