Friday, 1 March 2019

farewell, my frosty friend

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


Baton and 4Fun with holes cut out -
a sense of winter breaking up ready to melt
The recent Square One focus tangle was Ipso -
here getting a winter fix with Cat-Kin and more Baton
I end close to where I began the year -
strong diagonals of Diva Dance, Basketweave
over deep grey, and Edie with fragments of Baton

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.

4 comments:

  1. Grey old day here today! I like the idea of Spring being sprung!

    Fantastic tangles as usual. Now I'm off to check out your Valentangle link.

    Have a great weekend.

    xxx

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    1. Thank you Sarn! Very changeable weather here. Moments of sun yesterday, wind and rain today!

      I think you'll have found that when you get to the Valentangles you'd visited there already! ;)

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  2. I love what you did with my tangle “Edie”! It’s my first pattern and it’s so exciting to see someone using it!

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    1. Thank 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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