DouceDouce, the fastest of a bunch of twins

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I am almost done with the new patterns with a good deconstruction page. I have quite some in the brain storming pages, but some are not in the shape for deconstruction, and I also need a little break. I will do good deconstructions when I feel like! Isn't Zentangle in the end about relaxing? I will then do it when it's the right time. Or when I have too many brain storming pages lying around! :D

In the next page I wanted to try something for MoinMoin I think, and by doing variations I ended up with many other patterns. We have a Fengle variation (but I did not know Fengle) and some more stuff. In the end I did 3 or 4 pages out of this sketch, but only DouceDouce is ready to be developed.

DouceDouce, MoinMoin, Scara, Zoomies, Fengle. 8 August 2025

DouceDouce was the one where I had to develop straight away a brain storming page. Curves are in Cadent fashion, and the version with more petals has some things could be seen as a variation of Angelfisth, but my curves are curvier. And I add a small circle at the end of the lines. :D
DouceDouce. 9-10 August 2025

And here finally the deconstruction. About the ribbon variation, it is in general a cadent ribbon. If you do some mistakes and draw a line in the wrong place it should not be a big issue. I simply tried to have a bunch of lines! I will probably do a better deconstruction at a later point (I only had one tile left to do it) or maybe a video. I just ordered a phone holder and a good light, I will see how videos come out!
DouceDouce, Printemps. 17 August 2025

Why the name DouceDouce? CaDent has also the same consonants, and it is nice to repeat words for flowers, especially if it's French words. Should I made it a rule, to have all following flowers with one sillable French words repeated? I will think about it!

My Patterns
DouceDouce

Zentangle Original Patterns

Other Patterns
Scara, Midori Furuhashi, CZT
Zoomies, Veena Arun, CZT

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