Drupe v. Pokeroot

These two patterns were tough to get together, but I persevered. The irony is, I love both drupe and pokeroot, but getting something I liked out of combining them wasn't that easy.

Oh, well.

This is what I ended up with...as always, shading made SO much difference!

Huh, the pokeroot sort of looks like the roots of a giant flower....air roots.












Now, I also have been playing with Cathedral, a new pattern at tanglepatterns.com

I don't like the rings I put in there, but the pattern is just delectable! I love the minimalist effect of lines and dots. Quite airy and elegant.

But when I got thinking about the inspiration for cathedral, I thought it would be fun to add an element of MA XIII and came up with this:

Some dots became flowers, and some dots became diamonds, and I was JUST tickled.

Then I honed it down to this...which seems like it might make an okay border...so I worked on it a bit more until I came up with a stepout

Is this a new tangle?

There's a column of diamonds connected by lines, then circles "flanking" every other diamond. They become the blossoms (from MA XIII) and a diamond on top and bottom of each blossom. Then draw the elegant curving lines from the diamonds out to the blossoms and "secondary" diamonds. A line along the "outer" edges, connecting secondary diamonds to blossoms finishes it. I want to put this around something as a border.

Probably the most fun I've had with a pattern in months.