A Fun Cro-Doodle Project

Cro-Doodle is my way of saying this project is a hybrid.

Crochet inspired by Zen Art Doodles.

There is a group I'm in on Ravelry that threw a challenge at members to create a free form crochet/knit tangle from an animal Zentangle.

I prefer to call my drawing of this style Zen Art Doodles, and proceeded to produce the art work that I will be interpreting in crochet.

I will not reveal the whole drawing until all the crochet is complete, and I will leave the 'animal' as a surprise at the end.

Here is the first small section that I have recreated in crochet so far.

Zendala Mandala - Tutorial

 Zentangle is a Registered Trade Mark and created by Rick Roberts & Maria Thomas.

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For the Zentangle Zealots

Two Easy Ways to Create a Mandala

an Art Tutorial by Cyra Lewis

I will be posting a YouTube video for another Mandala technique soon.

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Zendala One

Start with two pieces of paper in different colours.

Cut a circle from one colour,

Fold it in half.

Then into quarters.

An finally fold it into eighths.

Use scissors to cut shapes from the folded sides.

(just like making paper snowflakes with the kids at Christmas)

Carefully unfold your paper Mandala.

Using a soft pencil (3B) draw around the Mandala template onto your other piece of paper.

You can use tiny bits of Blue Tack to hold it in place while you draw around it.

Next you draw over the pencil marks with your Pigma pen (or whatever pen you prefer to use)

I got a nice bold line with my 0.5 Pigma.

Now would be a good time to erase any pencil lines still showing.

Then you can have some fun filling in parts of the Mandala with your favourite Tangles.

You can join lines, add more lines and shapes, and tangle whatever bits you like.

Just make sure that you repeat the same action on the mirror image and repeats around the Mandala.

Here is my finished design for this demonstration technique.

Zendala Two

Using the Mandala template that you made in the first technique, use a glue-stick to glue the paper template to another piece of paper of a contrasting colour.

Make sure you get glue-stick on all the edges and points of the cut-outs.

Draw around all the edges with your Pigma pen and then start your tangling on the shapes that appear on the two different coloured parts.

Here is my final Tangling on this technique.

It's a great way to add some colour to your Zentagles.

Please let me know in the comments section below if you enjoyed this tutorial and would like some more.

Also, 

if you make use of my tutorial, please leave a link to share your 

Mandala - Zentangle - Zendala 

creations.

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Happy Zendangling

This weeks journey - TAST week29 & CQJP

My journey this week took be down memory lane as I used the thread that I had found at the bottom of a bag (see previous post for the discovery of the treasure).

And I turned it from this.............

to this..............

Personally, I think it is beautiful, but I am probably a bit biased about it.

It's like planting a twig that grows into a beautiful tree.

It is such soft thread that I might use it for a special crochet piece later. 

Anyway, that was my TAST Week 29 - Basque Stitch on my stitch journal.

And here it is on my CQJP block for July.

Six strands of cotton floss in pale aqua, and reversed in lilac silk ribbon.

Not sure if the long and short twisted chain part worked to create a wavy line. I may have ruined it with the beads. I might frog the beads as it was better before I added them.

I also made a crochet trim for this block. It is meant to have a ribbon or cord woven along it, but I haven't done that part yet as I'm undecided what to use, so this is a WIP.

And I've been doodling in the midnight hours again.

A Mandala Clock.

I've had a request from the IFFCG to make two more books for "The Missing Years" of the Freeform Crochet Challenge's that never had books published. Years 2006 & 2007..

I will be starting them in September as I have my current "big project" deadline for the end of August, and that is taking a lot of my time at the moment.

That's all for this week.

Happy Stitching

CQJP June WIP & Designing project

CQJP June WIP

A new month, and I've made a new CQ block.

The naked block for June. I'm looking forward to embellishing all these lovely seams.

No TAST stitching this week as it's a "catch-up" week for those who needed it.

But I have been creating (designing) something else instead.

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