Next step? combining Zentangle and stitching

 I keep looking for ways to combine Zentangle and stitching.  And several needlework groups have already asked for short, introductory workshops on Zentangle as many of the tangle patterns do make connections with needlework stitches and patterns.  So, yesterday, while I was demonstrating how to add color to tangle patterns I thought it might be fun to share some of them with readers of this blog.

 

This Zentangle was colored with Inktense Watercolor pencils and water

This one was colored with blended Tombow markers.

And this one was drawn on muslin and then colored with Fabrico Markers.  So, if you begin to see something similar to any of the above in some of my new designs, you will know why!  And I am working on a new design and will have enough stitched to post next week.

Last but not least....ONLY ONE EACH of Whirlygig and Images of India complete kits (including threads) remain.

Terry

Leaf Collage Update

Since my last posting on May 8, 2010, I attended a workshop (almost) completely unrelated to needlework............a Zentangle(R) Teacher Certification seminar and I am now a CZT or Certified Zentangle Teacher.  I added the "almost" above, because I do see many similarities between the patterns (tangles) created in both a Zentangle and a needlework design.  Here is the link to my new blog reserved for Zentangles.......Terry's Tangles.   So,  it's possible in the future you might see a needlework design which incorporates tangles.

But since returning home on two weeks ago I've been continuing to work on Leaf Collage and have made progress on the upper right quadrant. (The above is only a partial scan, being sure to include all the new stitching).

Granted, I have an overall color sketch for this design, but finding the right threads to achieve the effect in threads, as opposed to paint or colored pencil, is the challenge.  I will continue to work around the bottom right quadrant next week, after I return from teaching Safari this weekend in Dallas.  

Wishing everyone a great week!