This one was super meditative.
Zentangle 24 March 2023
More fun from the Zentangle Project Pack No. 1. More fun with shading and that white pencil.
Zentangle 21 March 2023
Here we have Bales (upper left), Poke Root (top middle), a tiny bit of my favorite Shattuck (top right); Finery (middle right), the quite dramatic Onamato (lower right) and Florz (lower left) a Zentangle that is one of the first taught in the Zentangle book from the creators, but takes a while to show up in my Zentangle Book, (One Zentangle a Day by Beckah Krahula)
Year of Stitch Sampler No. 1, 2023
And it’s a late finish for the first sampler of the year.
This was a nice way to show off stitches.
The stitches are:
Pink: sheaf; Orange: mountmellick, and a blanket stitch to even things out; Yellow: love chain; Green: feather; Blue: herringbone. The clouds are basket weave (the tiny cloud) and cross bar filling trellis (the other two). All of the outlining is couching.
I really loved that basket weave cloud. I was less enamored of the crossbar filling trellis, and you can see that eventually I did not care about my lines being straight.
I also experimented with a shimmery white thread to outline the colors of the rainbow and on the clouds. It will be the first and last time I use such a thing. I didn’t like the synthetic feeling of the thread and it was a massive pain to work with. I used normal DMC floss to pin it in place.
Here’s the back. You can see the wiry bits of the shimmery thread and where they got tangled.
I think I did a great job with colors on this one! This is also the last of Matt’s old sheets to be used for embroidery.
SKS: Postcard Saying Hello
Sara sent this cheery postcard. A very good yellow for a March day.
Sara was hoping the postcard reached me on Friday (it arrived on Monday), and she wished me a happy day.
Postcard from Ariel: Bunheads Episode 18
And we sign off on our project with this postcard. Once again, both of our top Buns was Ginny.
Zentangle March 19, 2023
This was a fun one from Project Pack No. 1. I especially loved how using the white pencil and smudging things really brought depth to the Zentangles.
Sound of Music Sing Along
I missed the various sing along showings back in the day, so I jumped at the chance to attend this round.
Here’s my gift bag. You can see the invite to the Captain’s Ball, the curtains, some edelweiss, and cards to hold up while singing “How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?”
The opposite side of the question mark and Maria cards were the will-o’-the-wisp and the flibbertigibbet, of course.
Our host gave us our cues for yelling things out, and there was much lusty singing, which was fun.
Overall, a good time at the movies.
Zentangle Project Pack No. 1
I bought my first Zentangle Project Pack so I could draw white tangles on a black background. These are my first three tiles. They are Apprentice tiles and are bigger than the standard tile.
I especially like the first two. They look complex, but were easy to carry out.
Teams Chatter
Aside from it being Pi Day, it was also a day that one of my coworkers posted a picture of the highway near her house in California.
And then we get a fun joke about pi/pie!