First of all, I’d like to say thank you to all those people who were so kind as to to pass on information about whether or not they had the larger hoops for their machines. At the moment, the figures are about 75% with a large hoop, and 25% with only a smaller one, such as the 5×7 inch. So I might put up some large freebies in future, although I have a lot of sympathy for those with small hoops, as it’s only relatively recently that I’ve had a large hoop myself
Right, on to something new. For some time now I’ve been working on a new set of designs – a zentangle zodiac. I’m not at all interested in astrology, but I love the images that are associated with the signs of the zodiac – the mythological creatures, the various animals and human figures – all of which have a strong design “presence”. There are, of course, twelve images, and it is taking a VERY long time to do them all in the zentangle style. I can usually draw and digitise a straightforward design in a day or less, but a large zentangle panel will take a week or often more. So far I’ve only finished a couple of them, and here’s the first, a Sagittarius. The colours aren’t quite right – that’s another problem with the big zentangles. It can be very difficult to get the colours right on the first try. But it shows you the main look of the design. So it’s one down, eleven to go!
A zentangle Sagittarius
It’s lovely, Mia!
Interesting mix–esp the back legs as heavy embroidery instead of satin stitch appliqué to enhance the shadowy effect. Look fwd to seeing the final tweaked color results!