Tile-A-Day: Connections

I've been playing with connecting my tangles in smoother transitions, not simply with the border of the string.  I've read some suggestions on how to do this, this post at Open Seed Arts being very helpful.

I'm learning:

• to work from the outsides in, trying to leave at least one blank space between tangles until closer to the end;
• to leave the edges of tangles incomplete until the end;
• to study the tangles on either side of an empty spot to see how they can connect;
• to look at where tangles end appropriately against the string and see how to bridge to the next one;
• to start with rounded or tangles meant to overlap first (like pokeroot, flux, or mooka) and then work "under" or "behind" them;
• specific ideas:  grid tangles (cadent, w2, huggins, bales, etc) flow nicely together, as do some triangle ones (munchin, tripoli, kathy's dilemma, swarm,  cadent variation, etc.); hollibaugh makes a great bridge; crescent moon and hollibaugh can also be tangled with additional patterns to flow into the next section

Here I started with the ribbon (not an offiicial name), which led into hollibaugh, then crescent moon, with a few bales in between.  From the other side of ribbon, I did cadent.  And cadent morphed into munchin for just a bit in the upper right corner.   Finally, fescu came off the ribbon in the lower left.  It's definitely a start. 

Tile-A-Day: Frames

Now I just need to practice my lettering so I can put quotes on the inside.  A friend recommended either Joanne Sharpe's Art of Whimsical Lettering or David Harris's The Calligrapher's Bible as a resource.

Tile-A-Day: Go Large!

When I feel like I'm in some kind of a tangle rut or I want to try something different, I remember the suggestion to draw patterns extra-large for a new effect.  I imagine I could make them even larger.