Diva CZT Weekly Challenge #191: "Monotangle - Betweed"

I loved this challenge! For some reason I have been a little intimidated by Betweed, although I did use it some at the class I took with Dani O'Brien. At any rate, this was a great way to conquer my fear! I used a prestrung Zendala (another thing I've been leery of) and I'm super happy with not only how much fun it was, but how it turned out. 

Here is another recent Zendala, this one with no string. I used several of Adele Bruno's tangles and a couple official ones.

Diva CZT Weekly Challenge #190: "Pink for Ardath"

This week Laura asked us to use pink for breast cancer awareness and in honor of her grandmother, Ardath. Like so many amazing women, she passed last year from this disease. I decided to go quite literal with this challenge and use the familiar pink ribbon as my string. I am really pleased with the way it turned out, although it is hard to capture the sparkle of the gellyroll pens I used for part of it in photos. 

Diva & It's A String Thing Challenges Combined: UMT Yuma & String 62 plus Uncorked

This week at our Tangler's Meetup we decided to combine both the Diva CZT's challenge to use Tina-akua Hunziker's tangle, Yuma and Tickled to Tangle's Its A String a Thing Challenge to use Tanglepatterns.com String #62 and her own tangle, Uncorked (which I keep called unoaked for some reason).  Here are the two we created:

Made by Joey Weekly Challenge #30: Canadian Thanksgiving.

As today is Thanksgiving in Canada, Joey picked a selection of tangles that represent things you might see at a Thanksgiving celebration. I selected 4 of the 6 she listed: Kukes (Katy Abbott), Sunflower (Anne Marks), Half Onions (Livia Chua, and Nvelope (Alyss Amster). Nvelope and Sunflower were new ones for me. 

Drawlloween so far....

Made by Joey Weekly Challenge #29: Tanglepatterns String 10 and "O" tangles

I haven't had a chance to do one of Joey's challenges in a few weeks, but I managed this one. It was a fun one! She asked us to use Tanglepatterns String #10 and any tangle starting with the letter O. Here, I used Organza (Ruth Howell) and (O) (Mei Hua Teng). 

It's a String Thing challenge #61

This was a tough one! The string alone was hard for me, not sure why. It was Tanglepatterns String 060 and Adele asked us to use the following tangles: Moonpie (Joan Delong), Aquafleur, River (Suzanne McNeill), and Gutz (Patricia Cosiano). It's a tad busy, but I still am happy with it.

Diva CZT Weekly Challenge #188: National Coming Out Day

What an inspiring challenge issued by the 12-year-old guest blogger this week. I know many an adult that could learn a thing or two from this kid. The challenge was to incorporate an LGBT theme into our work this week. 

Here, I used Lightening Bolt (Suzanne McNeill), Groovy (Eden Hunt), Beadlines (Margaret Bremner), and Tripoli. 

Diva CZT Weekly Challenge #187: String Theory - blind string

This was a real difficult, but very rewarding challenge. Draw your string with your eyes closed! Mine ended up with lots of tiny spots to tangle. 

Inktober & Drawlloween

There are 2 major drawing challenges floating around in cyberspace for the month of October. Inktober asks you to do an ink drawing each day of the month...ok, I'm on it. I'll post them on Instagram and perhaps they'll get a page here.

Drawlloween is much harder, a specific Halloween themed drawing each day. I'm not even sure what some of them are (e.g., an 8-bit zombie?).

Meetup & "It's a String Thing" Challenge #60

There was a nice group of ladies who came over to tangle last night! We all attempted this week's "It's a String Thing" challenge. Which asked us to use Tanglepatterns string 061 with any, or all, of the following tangles: X, Xplode, Xavier, and Xeni. It was the first challenge for everyone else, so I hope they start doing them. I have found them so helpful!

3 of us completed them during our meetup (mine is top right):