This week the challenge celebrates the spirit of gratitude and thanksgiving with a TriTangle of Trio, Huggins and Xyp.
The past 17 months have been a constant exercise of willpower for me to focus on being thankful for the good things in my life, whilst putting up with the distractions of the bad 😛 I am still unwell (it does seem to be endless!) but I do agree that I have a lot to be thankful for.
This is my first time trying out all three tangles, and I found Trio to be the most challenging.
After a failing at all my attempts, I was getting more and more frustrated just trying to follow the original step outs for Trio. Eventually I gave up and decided it couldn’t BE that difficult to pick up. I decided to then deconstruct the pattern myself and reproduce it to the best of my abilities. I ended up starting on the right instead of left and, basically, ‘flipped’ most of the steps. I don’t know if it ‘works’ visually, but it looks much better than all my failed attempts combined.
Once I was confident enough, I used an official tile to create part of my string on an old book page. After tangling, I trimmed it and mounted it onto a postcard blank.
Here we go.. (clicking on the images will take you to Flickr)
And just for fun (because I don’t really feel chatty)… Here are some other recent pieces before I sign off to go look at other entries 🙂
ZIA postcards
Art Journal Page Swap
Hexagon Tile Swap
And my favourite… a second take on last week’s UMT Seton, on a postcard blank ^^
. the 5tudio 
Your Trio looks lovely, just like the other patterns! Well done.
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All your tiles are lovely again! (I did see most of them on IG already 😉 But it is a treat to see them again!)
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Beautiful designs and a great feel. Love the printed background too.
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Your idea to deconstruct Trio and figure it out for yourself worked really well. I will try that for tangles I’m having trouble with. I think the work you did on the book pages and prayed to the card stock look very professional. Nice.
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Lovely work. I like your Trio and your solution to a frustrating problem. Hope you start feeling better.
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A beautiful Tile. Love your line weighting, and your Trio turned out great. Wonderful design. Drawing on the printed page is wonderful. I like all of the tiles in your post. You have a very creative artistic sense. Lovely work. Wishing you well, and hope you get feeling better soon.
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Sometimes “official” step-outs don’t work for everyone. I have found several patterns that I choose to do my own way. There is nothing wrong with that, it’s actually a positive. I think you make the pattern your own that way and you often find a tangle that you didn’t like, now a favorite after you change up the way it is executed. Your tangles are lovely. Sending you positive thoughts for better health quickly. Hugs 🙂
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Your artwork is beautiful and I love how you’ve tangled on book pages. I need to give that a try.
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Al great pieces of art. And how great tangles look on old printed bookpages. Favorite work of this post is your second seton piece, wow… looks very impressive
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You have been very busy and made some gorgeous pieces!!!
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Lovely, lovely tiles. And the second approach at Seton is fabulous
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These are ALL lovely! We each have our own expectations of what we want, but I LOVE what you have accomplished and working on the printed page is very inspiring. I would love if my work was half as beautiful! So sorry to hear of your struggles and hoping your life energy will soon be what you are wanting.
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Thanks for all your sweet comments ^^ I’d spent most of yesterday in bed. I am up today and hopefully, I’d be able to manage more tangles.. Seya next week.. xx
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I’m so sorry to hear that you haven’t been feeling well, and I hope that you feel much improved soon. I know it can be difficult to feel gratitude when you have personal struggles. It sounds like you have a positive outlook and that with your gratitude is definitely something to be thankful for. Your tile (and ALL your art) is beautiful! I LOVED reading how you flipped the pattern to work it out. I did the same thing when I was first started trying it out. Your lines are lovely. Your art has a distinctive style! Beautiful! THX for participating!
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Like the way that you set off Xyp with the black border. Also like the cascading Trio. Is a nice effect.
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