Playing with String...and P's

Right now, I'm de-numbing from a visit to the dentist. Went in for a routine cleaning...they found a cavity...someone happened to cancel...they took care of the cavity then and there. So I'm sipping some chicken broth, watching some Netflix, and posting on my blog. And maybe not my most sparkling prose.

A couple of fun challenges this week.
Suzy Mosh  New to Me Challenge is all about P tangles, and I found a couple of bran-new ones. Plates by Zoe Brener, which I found on tanglepatterns.com and pixiose which came through on my email through Adele's String Thing Challenge . 

I also saw pixioze on pinterest, I think. Very cool tangle. It is my go to relax pattern right now.

Anyway, the tile I created for SuzyMosh:

In the Garden

I made my own random string, and started with LoLo up on the center left. Aura'ed it. Then plates along the left. I really like the way Linda Farmer displays plates on her sample at tanglepatterns, so that's the version that I did. Pixioze piled up in the center, and I packed some tipple around it. Then sez on the right. In the background, I did those lines and shiny black dots, and maybe I've created a tangle? I'd call it Tux.

In all, it reminds me of a garden, with a trellis and climbing rose, flowering shrubs, pebble paths.

For It's a String Thing this week, a fun string, and some terrific patterns.

Looks like the garden path is twisting along into another realm.

Zenith came to my email from zentangle.com, and I spent some time practicing it even before checking It's a String thing. It is a wonderful border pattern, and I'd like to draw it big, with plenty of shading. More Pixioze, and Ann is completely new to me.

These tiles were lots of fun to do. Now to drowse and doodle and watch a Leverage marathon.