Crux

Crux is a tangle from Henrike Bratz and it's our challenge this week from the Diva. I'm helping with décor and registration and billeting for a youth conference this weekend and wasn't sure I'd even have time to do this challenge. I'm glad I did because I actually like this tangle more than I thought I would!

I did a tan tile using Crux three times. Shading, of course, lifts the rounded crux shapes off the squared crux shapes, but I found that if I filled in the 'kite' shapes, that helped too. I did this string with a very loosely-held pencil, thus all the wobbles.

Tangles: Black Pearlz, Coaster, Crux, Prestwood, Tipple

That tile gave me an idea for something else to try with Crux, but I wanted to start larger, so I did a black and white tile. Crux is one of those lovely tangles where you see through one layer to another below. My idea was to increase that see-through aspect and you can see the result in the lower right. For some reason this also seems to increase the prominence of the larger circles in the pattern.

Tangles: Beadlines, Crux, Romanancy, stripes

Thanks Laura and Henrike. I think I'll be using Crux again!
Now, off to a Registration meeting!