GratitangleZ 2023

A year has quickly passed and it is already time for another month of thankfulness and gratitude by way of GratitangleZ. Not my program but one I am promoting and participating in on Facebook in Tangle All Around. Each of us has so much to be thankful for. You may think you don't but you do. Even if it is just for one more day. God is faithful and we should be, too. 

The thought is each day in the month of November to take the tangle pattern listed for the day and draw it. While you draw reflect on something you are thankful for. Example: when I was drawing Avro on the first day of this month I thought about how thankful I am to be able to participate again this year. There were days last year when I wasn't sure I would even be alive for GratitangleZ in 2023. But like I said earlier . . . God is faithful. And I will never forget it. Thank you, Lord, for one more day. 

Prep for the month was easy. FB group GratitangleZ selected the patterns. I set up a photo album of all the step outs on Tangle All Around so my members would know day by day what was upcoming. 

For my own project I decided to go with a 10.5" Opus tile from Zentangle. I used three colors of Dylusions Ink Sprays to make the background. Then with a lightbox I traced the template onto my tile in pencil. It has 31 slots and I only need 30 for November. I will wait till the end of the month to decide how to treat that open space. Maybe I'll add in the words 'GratitangleZ, 2023.'

This is the template I used. Sorry, but I do not remember where it came from. I keep it in a folder and pull it out each year about this time. Feel free to use it if you would like. 

The first week of the project had three days in it. It fell towards the end of our program week in Tangle All Around. The tangles for the first three days were Avro, batumber and jonqal. I just picked a few spaces where I thought they would work nicely. I added a little shading and a little highlighting. Once I am done with all the tangling there will most certainly be more shading and highlighting added. 

We are in the middle of week two now. The tangles for this week are B'Dylan, Y Knot, dex, zander, Bella, frozen Nandini and trio. 

I post the patterns a week at a time in Tangle All Around. Usually on a Friday . . . as long as I remember what day of the week it is. Life is hard when you are retired. Hahahaha! Would you like to join us? Just click here and answer the three simple questions that tell me you are a living, breathing person and I will let you in. For now let me show you the steps for the first ten days of the month. 

  

And that is it for the first week and a half of 2023's GratitangleZ. You can click on any of these photos and they will enlarge to make it easier for you to see the steps. Please join us at Tangle All Around. And take a minute right now to think of one thing you are thankful for. Me? I am thankful for each of you <3