Thursday, April 25, 2013

Adventures in Monotangles #8 – PHICOPS


Well it looks as if I am getting this weeks adventure posted on time, which makes me happy. Yesterday I was not so sure this would happen. The process I normally use in creating an adventure is as follows:
1:         The weekend before, I’ll select a Tangle for the upcoming weeks adventure.
2:         Monday & Tuesday, I’ll think about it, what I want to post, and decide on a string to use. I do not decide in advance what the tile will look like, as I prefer my tiles to be spontaneous.
3:         Wednesday, on my lunch hour I’ll create a the piece for the adventure, I often do Zentangle® on my lunch, as it is so relaxing.
4:         Wednesday Night, I’ll pre-type the blog post and have it ready so I can just publish it Thursday Morning.
5:         Thursday, after getting back from Grocery shopping in the early AM, I’ll publish the Adventure for the week.
Things were on track this week, until Tuesday night, when I was doing laundry. I went to the basement and lo and behold, the water was not draining. Well everything else screeched to a halt, I have had this problem before and it is not good. I tried the easy fix, ran to Home Depot and got industrial strength main line cleaner. Tuesday night I used all of it, adding an application every hour or so. By the end of the night the water was moving just a little. I hoped that it would be OK in the morning, it was not. If anything it was worse. I went to the YMCA, to shower, and went to work for a couple hours (I am the only one in the office from 8AM-9AM,) so I figured I should go in. I stayed a couple hours and then headed home to get to work. By lunch I thought I had I cleared, but after lunch it was slow again. After more snaking and the use of a Blow-bag, I got it. It should be good now. Then it was clean-up time. Got the basement scrubbed down with bleach, ran out and got dinner, did shopping (as I was going to work early Thursday.) Once all of that was done it was 9:00 PM, I broke out my Tangle kit and watching/listening to the TV show Vikings, I got my Tile done for this weeks Adventure. I have to say If I had not been so busy I would have done more than one, I really like this weeks Tangle.

Now sometimes when choosing a Tangle, I’ll simply choose one that is one of my favorites. I often try to switch between, organic, and ridged tangles. This week I decided to explore Zentangle a little bit more. I headed over to tangle patterns.com and looked around for one that fit two criteria, one: it looked fun, two: I had never done it before. The winner this week was Phiscops, I think it was love at 1st tangle. I am now a huge fan of this tangle, if you have not used it before, give it a try, it is lots of fun.

Here, is a link to the Phicops Tangle patterns page

And here is the tile I created for adventure #8

19 comments:

  1. I love what you did with it! I have been playing with this one myself lately, so I will try to get something finished for this challenge! Quick question, if we complete tangles after the week is over, can we still post up our results?

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    1. Yes Please do, the only thing is, it will most likely not make it into the slide show. I think if a number of people did older challenges I would eventually do a catch-up slide show though. I am looking forward to what you create.

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    2. That's OK about the slide show. I have seen others who do these challenges at their own pace and "catch up" when they are new to tangling, so I was curious. I also went Rick's Paradox crazy last week and wanted to post up my piece, but wasn't sure! Thanks.

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    3. I understand about catching up, I am currently working my way through all of the Diva's challenges, I just finished #26.

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    4. All done with this one. Exceptionally challenging and fun.

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  2. MR. Linky has been added, sorry I missed adding it this morning. ~Roy

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  3. Roy, Thanks That was a fun phicops challenge or it was for me.

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  4. I love this tangle pattern. Thanks for this challenge.

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  5. Wow, you really had a week of general living, hope that drain stays clear. You keep coming up with tangles I probably wouldn't try on my own, but you inspire me to give them a go and stretch my creativity.

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  6. enjoyed your chalenge this week Rob, good luck with that drain issue, i've had a couple myself in the past so can feel your pain!

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  7. Thanks for another fun challenge. It is very interesting to see what people do with just one tangle. What a group of very talented people!

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  8. sorry for calling you Rob above Roy!! had another go at Phicops and bit happier with this version

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  9. Thanks for yet another great challenge, Roy! I appreciate the work that you put into this.

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  10. My first effort with Monotangles. Thank you for the challenge - I love that it focusses us on one tangle.

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  11. Ooh, it did take a while before I got Phicops right. I even made of my previous attempts a new tangle: Phicones :-) !! Thanks for this new challenge, glad I insisted to try and try. Now I cán draw Phicops.

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  13. Hey Roy, i sent this link to B-rad, he loves to see how people interpret Phicops! :)

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    1. Pass on to him that it is a great Tangle, this adventure has made me fall in love with it!

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