Cantire - a new tangle!

Recently on Facebook's Square One Zentangle group, the tangle Reticulous (from Heidi Kay, CZT) was the focus. It appeared earlier as BrixBox (from Anneke van Dam, CZT). They have slightly different step-outs and you many find one easier to work with than the other. It's a wonderful vessel tangle using an offset square grid. 

I wondered if it could be done using triangles. So I tried, and it can, but the process is a little different.

Here's a tile with BrixBox/Reticulous, and Cantire together. (Pronounce it can-tire not can-teer. I'll explain later.)

These are the step-outs for Cantire.

Some things to note:

• These are equilateral (equiangular) triangles - to the best of your ability! 😉
• As with BrixBox/Reticulous, the small shape is one quarter the size of the large shape.
• Unlike BrixBox/Reticulous, two shapes are needed on each side of the large shape.
• Something will go haywire. Trust me. It doesn't mean you're a bad person. It's just an opportunity.
  
• You can use any of the marvelous fills for Tripoli to embellish your triangles.

I have an oxalis plant near my desk and drawing the leaves made an interesting triangle string. Then I fitted Cantire around it.

Why Cantire?  I'd received a couple of very good suggestions for a name, but somehow they didn't quite click. I'd already used Trifle for another triangle-based tangle. Then suddenly I thought of Canadian Tire, an iconic hardware and auto supplies store in Canada. Its logo is a red triangle. Cantire it is!

One more tile for good measure, on gray paper stained with a hibiscus teabag. I used Moonlight pens and color pencils.

For another tangle with an iconic Canadian theme, check out Double Double.

BTW: It's getting harder and harder to keep track of tangles and names. If this pattern has been presented elsewhere, or if the name has been used already, please let me know!

PAMELA - a new tangle!

When Pam, a friend of ours, moved from a house to an apartment several years ago, we purchased a matching coffee table and end table from her. I really like the metal rod pattern in the centers and have finally taken time to deconstruct it and make step-outs.

I did a relatively simple Pamela on a gray tile. Unfortunately, the gray didn't photograph very well.

It's what I call a 'vessel tangle', a tangle with a lot of empty spaces that you can add to as you please.

For more vessel tangles check out these three posts:

https://enthusiasticartist.blogspot.com/2019/05/vessel-tangles.html
https://enthusiasticartist.blogspot.com/2019/08/vessel-tangles-four-more.html
https://enthusiasticartist.blogspot.com/2019/09/four-more-vessel-tangles.html

Here's a tile with three different "fill ins". It can be varied quite a bit!

I drew it again on a Renaissance tile with some painted color. Here's the tile with color and all the bells and whistles (I think I overdid it!).

Tangles: Marasu, Pepperish, Printemps

Here are the step-outs, along with my examples, if you want to try it yourself.

In theory, the pairs of spirals touch, but they won't always; see the left side of the left-hand image below. Here I added a heavier section with a highlight. Then I added a few more so it would look as if I'd intended this effect. :)

BTW: It's getting harder and harder to keep track of tangles and names. If this pattern has been presented elsewhere, or if the name has been used already, please let me know!

Four more vessel tangles

Vessel tangles: tangles that offer empty spaces that you can fill to your heart's desire.
My original post presenting four favorite vessel tangles is here. I followed with another four tangles that can be delightfully filled with other tangles and that post is here. Today, here are four more, making a dozen.

CHARLOTTE
From me, step-outs are here. Here it is in it's simplest form:

And here it is on two tiles with various fills:

ING
From Molly Hollibaugh. Step-outs are here. Here it is in it's simplest form:

Here's a tile with Ing in stripes, with five different fills.

And here is my journal page from the Zentangle Project Pack #6 - Ing with a spiral fill (Maria's idea), fairly standard Ing, and Ing done along a zigzag line, black on one side, white on the other..

STOIC
From Zentangle. Adele Bruno offers good step-outs here, although it's called Twile.
A little back story: Many seem to be using the name Twile lately. Zentangle came out with the pattern years ago but didn't publicize it. Recently, CZT Leslie Scott-Gillilan deconstructed it and called it Twile.
Here it is in its simplest form. The central squares can be left empty, or filled black (which looks more "empty"!)

And here's a tile with basic Stoic and three different fills.

Tangles: Beadlines, Stoic

RAGZ
From CZT Christina Vandervlist. Step-outs are here. Here it is in its simplest form:

And here's a tile with a few variations. You can shade one edge as I did on the right, or shade each strand as on the left.
If you want to use different patterns as on the right, remember that braids generally have three strands, so you want to put your pattern in every third section.

Vessel tangles: four more

My original post presenting four favorite vessel tangles is here. Today, here are four more tangles that can be delightfully filled with other tangles and patterns.

COPADA
From me. Here it is in its simplest form:

Here are  few variations:

And here's a Renaissance tile with Copada on the left side and at the top middle:

FENGLE
From Maria Thomas. I love this tangle because is essentially creates its own string.
Here it is in its simplest form:

Fengle can go almost anywhere. It can look like a star or a flower. I like to Aura the lines inside the shapes and make them see-through.

Here's a larger piece I did a while ago, going a little crazy with it!

HEXONU
This is a fairly new tangle from Cherryl Moote. Here it is in its simplest form:

Here's a tile I did using various fills in the hexagons, and Sonya Yencer's 'Shades of Gray' technique. 

MOLYGON
From Zentangle. Each smaller shape goes approximately halfway along the larger shape. Here it is in its simplest form:

Here's Molygon on a tan tile. I turned the molygons into feathers!

Vessel tangles

There are tangles that I think of as vessel tangles: tangles that are quite simple and essentially empty, allowing you to fill the spaces in any interesting manner you want. The tangle can be a vessel for a lot more.

It helps to do the basic tangle larger than usual. Here are four of my favorite vessel tangles - alphabetically, showing no favoritism!

ASSUNTA
From Rick Roberts. Find step-outs here. Here's Assunta in its simplest form:

And here it is with two different fills:

Tangles: Assunta, Cubine, DooDah, Seljuk 

BEKK
From Cyndi Knapp. Find step-outs here. Here's Bekk in its simplest form:

 And here it is with various fills:

Tangles: Black Pearlz, Bekk

EXIS
From Jennifer Hohensteiner. Find step-outs here. Here's Exis in its simplest form:

And here it is with various fills:

Tangles: Exis, Knase, Zonked

PICO
From Staub Korn. Find step-outs here (wait for it). Here's Pico in its simplest form:

And here it is with two different fills:

Tangles: Bosch, Crescent Moon, Knightspeak, Paradox, Pico

Do you have vessel tangles you like to fill with other things? What are they?