The challenge this week over on the Diva’s blog is to try grid-based patterns on curvy or uneven grids. Now I do like grid based patterns because by their very nature there is some symmetry and my mind seems to work best in that way. So to take a grid pattern and do it so that it isn’t even, was always going to be a challenge for me. I do love to see other people’s tangles where the patterns seem to be almost undulating, like rolling hills, but I’ve never got past the starting blocks in actually creating one.
A few days ago I did a tangle with a crocus at the centre and so I thought I would do one with a snowdrop at the centre and do some curvy grids as background.
OK so I’ve curved my grids but there is no undulating to be seen. Short of inspiration I wandered around the house and there we had it, curtains with a grid pattern. The folds of the hanging curtains caused the grid pattern on them to become wavy. I needed to try to emulate this in a tangle. After some pencil practice I had to settle for tangles that didn’t contain curvy elements because I couldn’t work out how they would curve around a wave! Perhaps that is for another day.
Thanks for looking.
Linda
Born Again Crafter 
Love, love, love them both. Your lines are crisp and clear, your designs are fabulous!
Thank you LeeAnn, I’ve just been looking at your kingfisher tangle, it is really great and gives me lots of inspiration x
Wow! You really captured the movement in this one. Fantastic!
Thanks Jean, I do enjoy having the challenge topics for inspiration
They are both so beautiful!
Thank you
Like the crocus. Do not remember when it was but there was a blog on zentangle.com about what you were trying to do in the second tile.
Thanks Donald, I’ll see if I can track that blog down
Love them Linda they are really great. The snowdrop is an added bonus.
Love Ann x
Thanks Ann, may be having a tangle garden through the year! Daffodil next I’m thinking x
Both are wonderful! Especially I like the second one. It´s really fantastic with the wavy appearance!
Thank you, I did enjoy working out how to get the perspective right x
Just beautiful!
Indeed, ‘just beautiful’, that sais it all.