At the start of this
year I set myself the challenge of tangling in line with the changing
seasons - picking appropriate colours and tangles and styles - and
working only with those. I defined winter as December, January and
February. On this, the first day of March, I therefore declare
winter over!
The only colour I've
picked up in the last two months is a couple of cool blue pens, which
mostly featured in my ValenTangle adventure. However I haven't missed
colour in the least, and in fact I'm a little wary about having to
reconnect with it again. My last tiles for my Winter Inklings theme
really stripped back to the basics. Black and white and graphite, and
a little grey watercolour on one or two.
Giving a PersianMosaic the winter treatment -
straight Shattuck over
grey and white coloured 3Z tiles
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a sense of winter
breaking up ready to melt
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The recent Square One
focus tangle was Ipso -
here getting a winter
fix with Cat-Kin and more Baton
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I end close to where I began the year -
strong diagonals of
Diva Dance, Basketweave
over deep grey, and
Edie with fragments of Baton
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I love living in a
country with changing seasons, it feels natural and right to me. Each
season has its own character and things to love about it - but
usually by the end of winter I'm willing to let it go. But this year
I'm letting it go with a little more sadness than usual. I might
just miss those bare branches and frosty mornings, that cool blue ink
and grey watercolour. It might take me a week or two to get used to
the idea of spring.
Grey old day here today! I like the idea of Spring being sprung!
ReplyDeleteFantastic tangles as usual. Now I'm off to check out your Valentangle link.
Have a great weekend.
xxx
Thank you Sarn! Very changeable weather here. Moments of sun yesterday, wind and rain today!
DeleteI think you'll have found that when you get to the Valentangles you'd visited there already! ;)
I love what you did with my tangle “Edie”! It’s my first pattern and it’s so exciting to see someone using it!
ReplyDeleteThank you Laurel. I'm so pleased you got to see my tile. It's thrilling when you see people using your tangle isn't it. I really love Edie - I knew it was a good one as soon as I saw it, and I think I'll be using it a long more!
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