"Plates" challenge

The guest challenger this week on the DivaCZT's blog is Jeannette Clawson and apparently she is a longtime mandala fan, just like me! Her challenge is to do tiles with a quarter circle, in strips, and maybe put four of them together to make a "plate" design. You can read the challenge and see some of Jeannette's work here.

I wanted to do quite a few because I want to show you some other things you can do with these tiles. I decided to use Bijou tiles - being smaller, I could do more in the same amount of time! Then I discovered that I had hardly any white Bijou tiles, so... you get brown. :)

I drew ten little tiles, pictured below, making two 'plates' and two extras. I used different tangles in all of them (and left out many!).

Of course, if you can make one circle you could make more. Here are nine of my Bijou tiles and you can see how more circles could happen.

With 16 tiles you can make a larger mandala: a 4-tile one in the middle and a border of 3-tile corners. Essentially it's four circles with the central four tiles each turned 180 degrees. (I didn't actually draw more Bijou tiles. I cannibalized some older tan tiles that I had no particular affection for!)

Last year I posted a project where I used this idea with 36 full-size tiles in color. See it at this link.

If you have a lot of tiles, by positioning them differently you can even make a scrolling design!