At last!! I’ve waited in quiet desperation, with wringing hands and bated breath, wondering if it was like one of the thousand other things that I got all excited about and drowned myself in for a short while but didn’t follow through to the end. I wondered if the ‘zen’ had abandoned me forever.
I haven’t tangled since last October, and honestly, it worried me that I wasn’t able to find any inspiration in this big beautiful world around me. None of the online challenges seemed to excite me. None of the idea journals seemed to spark any interest in me. I was in a state of near-panic.
I wonder if the old adage ,”A watched pot never boils” applies to all things in life. It certainly seems that way. The more desperate I got trying to get inspired, the more un-zen I felt about tangling. The worrying was getting exhausting and inadvertently, I stopped. I gave up looking for ideas, inspiration, will, or desire. Finally after 7 months of abstinence from tangling, I picked up my pen yesterday and deconstructed an idea for a tangle that has been sitting in my phone for almost a year now.
I am thrilled to say that I have re-discovered my zen through Juneyo, my new tangle. It’s fairly simple, versatile and organic, blends well with other tangles and works beautifully on its own too. It can be used as a border tangle, filler, or fragment. Shading is not my strongest suit but I’m sure you can do great things with it if you are good at that sort of thing.
The inspiration for this tangle comes from a certain wallpaper in the shower of a hotel room we stayed in on one of our trips. I was having a tough time emotionally (you can read all about it here). Anyway, long story short, I was missing my quadruped babies and that was the only reason I was in that shower staring at that wall long enough to get the pattern. Hence the name Juneyo (Jupiter, Neptune and Yoda).
I hope you’ll have a go at it and sure do hope you enjoy it. Happy tangling!!
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