View a YouTube - Zentangle® - Continuous Line Drawing on Fabric. 
Get the look and feel of machine stitching by using a continuous line to draw Zentangle patterns.



Zentangle Canvas Bags with continuous line drawings..

     What a fabulous class we had at the Quilt Market in Salt Lake City, UT! The popular class was inspired by my work with Pat Ferguson, CZT and author of the Zen Quilting Workbook. Fabric artists have noted the similarity between the continuous line stitching achieved when using free motion quilt designs and the flowing, easy strokes of Zentangle patterns. In this 1 1/2 hour class, all 25 students (most of them beginning tanglers) took home a cloth bag with their original Zentangle design drawn.



Delightful bunch of ladies from my Zentangle class at Quilt Market.

     With a pen and a canvas bag you can achieve that same stitched look by drawing Zentangle-inspired  designs with a continuous line, just like a machine stitch you may have to occasionally 'backstitch' with your pen.  We drew with a black Pentel Gel Roller for Fabric  pen which glides along canvas fabric and leaves a very black line. I highly recommend this pen for heavier fabrics. The finished product looks very much as if it was sewn.  Every bag turned out simply gorgeous. Another class I was very proud of!
     There was an exciting book signing and give away at Brewer distributors. Mark Montano taught short classes, then he signed his book Pulp Fiction . I signed dozens of copies of Zentangle for Fabric Arts and Quilting and GO! Baby Quilting books. The folks at Brewer are so enthusiastic - they are a wonderful source of books and supplies for the fabric and quilting markets.

 
Pam See with her wonderful design.


Sandy Lord with her creative monogram.   

Zentangle of the week, enjoy and create!!

                         Zentangle #72



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