Zentangle
 

I just took a class in this art form at the Vermont quilt festival and highly recommend it for machine quilters. While you might just think of it as art, there's much that crosses over to quilting. It makes you think of ways to fill areas in your quilt with stitching. it was an "out of the box" way of thinking for me and I think I'm hooked!

I've seen a lot of that here, but I haven't tried it yet myself.

I had to research this .... not sure I could do this on my machine but worth a try ..... someday. What are you doing? I'm looking forward to seeing some of your projects.

MaryMo - not all the lines drawn in a typical zentangle would be quilted, but some can be. You would be doing them free motion. It's more the thought process of how to fill spaces than anything else. As for what I'm doing......practicing!!!

I love zentangle. All self taught. There is a great website TanglePatterns.com. That collects patterns and how to draw them. I'm doing some placemats that are solid fabrics and zentangles quilted on them. They are a lot of fun. I mark part of the pattern on the fabric and do some of it free hand on the machine.

Zentangle.com is a great site and they have an e-newsletter you can sign up for. They have classes to become a certified Zentangle teacher (CZT), and they sell Zentangle tiles. I carry a small artist pad and Pigma pens with me and if I am waiting somewhere, I will pull them out and doodle. One of the quilt guilds I belong to had a CZT come and give a demonstration / class, and it was a lot of fun.

I saw the Zentangle booth there, and also took a mini-toot from a gal who came to our Wellness fair at work (Zen-doodling helps with stress). I love the look of some of the black & white fabrics out there that kinda-sorta look like Zentangles. As soon as I get another block of free time, I'm going to try Zentangle FMQ.

I used to be guilty of doodling on all my school books. I guess I need to try it with thread and call it Zentangles.:)

I am also a self taught tangler. I applied the theory to this quilt's border:
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