Oops! I am late for Adele Bruno's challenge #15

Hey everybody, I just came back from my 2 months in Europe, visiting my Mom.
Between the 24h hours trip from door to door, the jet lag......I was a little tired!!
and I forgot to email my tile to Adele.
Sorry, I saw the tiles of the people who didn't forget!! they are great.

it was with the string #019 by Linda Selymes (courtesy of Linda Farmer).

 

Then Adele told us to use 6 tangles starting with a L:

Lace Curtains by CZT Suzanne McNeill

Lacy by Sandra Strait
Lokomotive by Stephanie Kukla
Longwood by J.J. La Barbera
Lanie by Adele Bruno
Looplopp by Ksenija Vojisavljevic
here is my tile.

I tries not to put one tangle by space designed by the string: 6 spaces, 6 tangles.
So I mixed them a bit! It was interesting and fun.
The more I work on the Challenges (Adele's, The diva, and the zendala dare) The more I noticed that first I think this is not gonna work for me, often the tangles are not the one I use with pleasure, because they are tricky...and you know what!!!! I'll start using them more and more in my personnal creations.

Well, have a good week everybody, and I'll try to be on time next time!!!
Take care.

The Diva Challenge #145

This week, Laura asks us to use Quib the new tangle by Maria and Rick.

I am in my "under the sea" period!!! so this tangle made think of jellyfish.

I hope you like it, have a wonderful week.

the diva #144, a bug life

As I was working on Adele Bruno challenge (tickledtotangle.bolgspot.com) with the string #50 

by Maria Thomas (zentangle R) and in the same time on Laura the Diva challenge #144 "a bug's life"

my husband came by where I was drawing and kind of mixed the 2 challenges!!!!

He added a "fin" in Maria's string and told me " you may make a bug out of that"

My husband first name is Dominique, and he loves when I put some little creatures in my ZIA like snails!!

N.B. pour (French) means for (English).

"It's a String Thing" #14 by Adele Bruno

We had to use tagh, tortuca, tipple and tripoli. 

The string and the tangles are by Maria Thomas.

I needed a little time to see where I could draw the tangles.

Nipple in the bubbles was obvious, but wasn't too obvious?? I am anxious to see what the others Tanglers are going to come up with!!

Can't wait!

Have a great week all of you.

The Diva Challenge #144

Laura asked us to tangle bugs or to hide bugs in a Zentangle... with colors!

That was my concern, I am travelling right now and I don't have my color pens... 

Then my "Zentangle- quilting" adviser (my husband!!) told me " why don't you draw a Christmas bug?"

What a brilliant idea!

I have with me my basic Zentangle supplies : white paper, Sakura Micron black, red and green, to be able to tangle but also to copy the steps of a new tangle. 

 So here is my Christmas caterpillar: the hat is an idea by Helen Williams, and I used :

printemps, puf, knightsbridge, arc flower, nzeppel, undling, tagh, keeko.

Pauline's pigtail, an adorable tangle by Adele Bruno from www.tickeledtotangle,blogspot.com

Last week, while I was working on Adele Bruno's challenge, I was checking her blog and she just published an adorable tangle!!!!

I had to try it immediately, love at the first sight!!!

It made me think of constellations, the first ZIA or sea creatures, the second ZIA.

"it's a string thing" #13 tiles from Adele Bruno of www.tickledtotangle.blogspot.com

Last week I entered a tile for the challenge #13 by Adele Bruno's blog. 

We had to use the string #10 from TanglePatterns.

Then the instructions were to use the tangles, Antidots by Anita Roby-Lavery CZT, 

and Angel fish by Marizaan van Beek CZT.

For me, Antidots and Angle fish together mean under the sea scene.

I liked it but as usual a challenge makes me use tangles in a way I was not thinking of, or use a string where I don't see the tangles to put in immediately, in that case the triangle was the hard thing to include curve tangles in!!

But that is the purpose of the challenges, right? To take us out of our safe zone!!

Zendala dare #80, from Erin, www.thebrightowl.com

Christmas is in the air!!!! It's coming, holidays vacation for the kids, the decoration of our home, the Christmas tree, what is going to be the menu of Christmas eve diner (we are living in Alabama but we are French so the food is very important in this kind of celebrations, Christmas Eve, Christmas day, New Year Eve and Easter). 

In our home the colors for Christmas are red and green!!

The leafy shape of the zendala made me think of : pine cone, winter woolly hat for the kids, Christmas decorations.

I hope you like my zendalas.

I wish all of you a wonderful Holiday season. 

Here's a butterfly I made during my Zentangle class with the wonderful Darla Williamson. http://www.tangledstones.com/

The Diva # 139

I am going to be away from my sewing machine and most of all, from all of my fabrics...... so Quilting is going to wait... for 2 months!
Well, I am going to have more time to organize my zentangles and ZIAs, to take pictures and to share with you in this new blog.
I am a beginner in this so you may have to be patient!!!!

Here is my ZIA for the Diva challenge #139. She asked us to use "8's parte 2"
as the Diva said it is similar with Mi2, W2 and Huggins, so I mixed them up.
What do you think?

Thanks to all the wonderful people from the zentangle world, you are sooooo talented. I am inspired by many of your works.

Maxime is going to be one year old. It's time for a baby quilt.

My Zentangle quilt

 

From an idea of Zany quilter

http://zanyquilter.blogspot.com/p/zentangle-quilt-tutorial.html

 

I created my first Zentangle quilt.

I always loved the "storm at sea" pattern

Here is the quilt for Delphine's bed in my house.

Here are the different stages:

First block

 

 

You can start to see the waves and the different hues of the blue. 

Almost there ;)

On the floor (I had no more room on my wall)

The piecing is done, now we need the border.

My Grandkids' quilt for their bed at Mamie's (me) house

 

For Tristan (Above)

 

For Fantine