Zentangle Inspired Quilting

 Zentangle has been calling my name again!   I have done a little quilting on a wall hanging ... using Silver metallic thread (Superior) and black So Fine (Superior) ... So this is not the finished piece ... I will post more when I have done some more ... in a few weeks perhaps.   The Zentangle "tiles" will be quilted as if they are little drawings.    I was inspired by one of my drawings in my Journal in February.    Keeping a journal is a wonderful thing!

This is the whole piece still on my longarm machine - it is very nice to be enthused and excited by a project again.

Enjoy and happy tangling ... Jane x

What you do in class

I was in Adelaide last week attending a class with an International Quilting Teacher (Sharon Schamber).   While she was talking and showing us how she makes her quilts on the longarm (and they are magnificent quilts) ...  I tangled my page with my own quilting designs and feathers ... all in a very Zentangle style of course!

I find that drawing whilst listening to someone in a lecture or meeting ... assists my ability to recall what I have heard later on.  My learning style is definately not auditory!

Now I am going to have to quilt these little drawings to see how beautiful they look!

Hope everyone has a tangling good weekend.   Jane x

Gosh ... where did May go?

I am working on a little project ... this is a six inch square Zentangle ... machine quilted on my domestic sewing machine.  I'm working on "Mooka" next!

It is so cute and so achievable ... I do Zentangle for Quilters workshops too!

Okay back to where did May go ... I have been working on several projects as well as quilting in my Longarm Machine Quilting job (Purrfectly Quilted)

I will have a little tutorial here later this week ... for colour with Zentangle ... a little taster so to speak.

Still a couple of days left in May to get busy ... so happy tangling for now... Jane x

More Zentangle To Fabric & Baby Tangles

 Fancy a Fabric Cover for your Moleskin Journal??  Yes I do and I made one or two for fun.  This is a combination of the three things I love to do ... draw, quilt and make journal covers ... I am in heaven.

Making these type of things is really good practise for your machine quilting skills and the best rule for getting better is to draw, draw and draw some more.

I will leave you to look through the photo heavy post ... enjoy more of my fabric zentangles and my baby zentangle bookmarks.   Only 3 more days until I am at the Australian Machine Quilting Festival in Adelaide teaching "Do The Zentangle" ... there are a few more spaces available in my Friday and Saturday classes and you can register on the day now.  See you all in sunny Adelaide!   Enjoy browsing ... Jane x

Something a little different

You may know that I make journal covers,  I made this one last year - it is a Tangle Journal Cover ... I drew on white fabric with my Micron pen and then stitched with thread - I love the texure of this cover and it is one of my favourites.   I would like to make another with some new Tangles.

This is the back.

And some Tangles I have done over the past week.

I was looking at this tangle and I am pretty sure I have seen this curly thing before,  probably not exactly ... but similar.  I think from Zentangle but I can't find it now ... amazing how you can subconciously recreate something that someone else has done - I must have really liked it.

If I find it ... I will put the link here. 

Happy Tangling for now ... Jane x