Bookmarks - or better said, tortellini!

Over the last months I have given away some bookmarks.

The first ones have been at a dinner with some random people. It was a weird supposed dating event with dinner where one attendant was a friend of the owner of the restaurant, two attendants knew each other (and one of them was me), one that was there as a present that was not so well received, another one to replace a friend that could not come. Not really a dating event, that in the end did not interest me so much, but lots of laughs and, from my side, too much food and alcool. :D

At the end I drew quite some bookmarks. I think four. I received pictures only from one of them, I did not think about taking pictures prior. :D I never did bookmarks on the road before.

I did not have the right paper and was not drawing at the best, but you have to start somewhere, right?

We found a name on that day. Tortellino, from the tortillon. Nobody around knew what a tortillon is, and tortellino was the closest word. :D

Fluxfan. 9 October 2025

Shame on me, one of the people I did not draw a "tortellino" for was my friend at that dinner.

Therefore at a dinner some time later (a hot pot, pretty good but maybe a bit overpriced) I prepared bookmarks for him and for another person joining.

My friend is a chess enthusiast.

Huggins, Printemps, Knightsbridge. 22 October 2025

Efeu, Shoori. 22 October 2025

Zeppo, Flossil. 22 October 2025

Paradox, Ovy, Tentoculos, Xrose, Reticulated. 22 October 2025

Later I happened to be at a night at the disco on the 1st of November for a Halloween party. A guy there was celebrating the birthday, and I drew a bookmark for him as well. The lighting is horrible because I was in a club. But it is kind of funny to have it red here! :D

He said he wanted oranges, and so.. I did oranges.

Agru, Printemps, Wadical. 2 November 2025

I went on holiday in the Netherlands in November. I tangled bookmarks for the people that started a conversation with me on my first night out at a jazz club. I know the quality is awful, but the light was so little, it was almost like drawing with my eyes closed.

Zante, Srose, Dark Busters. 8 November 2025

Suan, Printemps. 8 November 2025

I tangled this one for an ex colleague living in the Hague that I visited the next day. I did it on the train. :)

Flux, Sez, PeTree. 9 November 2025

And we have the last bookmarks from yesterday. There was a Christmas dinner at a friend's place, and at a point I started drawing.

Trelina, Negtip, Printemps. 20 December 2025

Here I have been asked to draw freedom and stones. Pretty difficult to have them together.

Ciottoli, Zaungast, Hosopli, Fronde, Corfo. 20 December 2025

Here I was asked about flying or birds. I did not want to use again Zaungast, so had to come out with a new pattern. :D

Printemps, Circus, Uaso, Fleurina. 20 December 2025

Here the request was lotus flowers.

Ciottoli, Sez, Suan. 20 December 2025

Here the suggestion was very challenging. Tarots. I drew some secondary elements, drawing the main figures was a bit out of the Zentangle scope and of my drawing skills I would say. :D

20 December 2025

My Patterns

Agru

Ciottoli

Circus

Corfo

Fleurina

Fronde

Hosopli

Negtip

Shoori

Srose

Suan

Uaso

Xrose

Zentangle Original Patterns

Flux

Huggins

Knightsbridge

Paradox

Printemps

Sez

Wadical

Other Patterns

Dark Busters

Efeu

Flossil

Fluxfan

Ovy

PeTree

Reticulated

Tentoculos

Trelina

Zante

Zaungast

Zeppo

Fronde - jagged lines made easy

And here we are with the last pattern of my first pattern sketchbook.

I have used it in the past with FanFan, and it is pretty similar to the technique used in Nanalee and probably other patterns as well. Mainly, you draw close lines of different length and then connect them with curvy lines.

Fronde are the tree small branches, that usually move with the winds. The pattern does not remind it 100%, but sometimes the name sticked.

Fronde, Printemps, Wirlz, Tipple, Dark Busters, Rambles. 13-14 December 2025

I am adding a couple of tea bag envelopes, but I used the technique in more, but I will probably make patterns out of them. 

Borgoid, Fronde. 17 December 2025

Fronde, Frondula. 19 December 2025

My Patterns

Borgoid

Fronde

Frondula

Zentangl Original Patterns

Printemps

Rambles

Tipple

Other Patterns

Dark Busters

Wirlz

Feskoos and Loomino - more Fescu

And again some Fescu variations. I think I have still one waiting, but it has not been added to my pattern sketchbook yet. So, let's focus on these ones. :D

We have Feskoos, the first one I came up with but that I did not draw yet. You know, I have too many patterns around. It has been born in the heart of my S ribbon patterns, probably as an Srose variation.

Loomino instead is pretty recent. The first time it came out while doodling at a meeting I think, at the border of the page together with some notes. Loomino because it looks a bit like a lumino, tealight. It is very easy but I find it pretty cute. In the end it is a tangleation of Fescu and Sez, but together they have a pretty different vibe.

Feskoos, Loomino, Zante, Printemps, Toodles, Tipple, Scallamp. 11-12 December 2025

And here some tea bag envelopes, as usual.

Feskoos, Krizzy, Bronx Cheer. 6 October 2025

Cadent, Loomino. 27 November 2025

My Patterns

Feskoos

Krizzy

Loomino

Zentangle Original Patterns

Bronx Cheer

Cadent

Printemps

Tipple

Toodles

Other Patterns

Scallamp

Zante

Tea Bag Envelopes - Part 36

I haven't posted tea bag envelopes for quite some time, but it does not mean I stopped tangling on them. They keep being one of my favourite things to tangle on.

I seldom check online for patterns from others and usually tangle things I am comfortable with or end up drawing new things.

Scena. 5 December 2025

Scena. 5 December 2025

Ribescu, Tipple, Fronde, Cadent. 8 December 2025

Here, but very often lately, I am usign a technique whose name I don't know and should probably create a name for it. After some brainstorming, I came out with the name Corinthian. It could change over time, we will see.

Scena, Corflor, Printemps, Coree 8 December 2025

Tipple, Printemps, Fiammetta, Flux, Antidots, Kaboom, Fescu, Sharpei. 8 December 2025

Pokeleaf, Tipple, Giolo, Bales. 9 December 2025

My Patterns

Cadent

Coree 

Corflor

Fiammetta

Fronde

Giolo

Ribescu

Sharpei

Zentangle Original Patterns

Bales

Fescu

Flux

Pokeleaf

Printemps

Scena

Tipple

Other Patterns

Antidots

Kaboom

Kaspah from the tip of your fingers

Kaspah is one of the most loved patterns of mine, and Alice Hendon was so kind to post it in her Facebook group "Tangle All Around" as tangle of the day on December 17 2025.

Some people have tangled it from Alice's group, some other after I posted it in the group of the people that will attend the CZT seminar with me in Munich in February.

From my CZT mates Kim Witek and Susanne Mäuser you can find the following. Susanne has also the blog Sinnesplätschern and is the main commenter on my blog. :)

Kim Witek

Susanne Mäuser

Susanne Mäuser

Here Susanne did a whole Spinner. On the top in the center you can find Kaspah. :)

Susanne Mäuser

And here the tangles from Tangle All Around. I was so happy that Alice featured a pattern of mine. It is taking quite some time to have something on pattern sites.

Veronica Campos-Hallstrom
Club Creative Art

Donna Osborn Catron

Linda Schmidt

Maria Goncalves

Monica Fasano

The tangles were posted in closed groups or in personal blogs, and I have asked for the permission to post here to everybody.

Piumescu and Florescu - a bunch of Fescu!

We have another couple of patterns based on Fescu. Piumescu recalls me feathers (piume) and Florescu, with its aura, can be arranged in a flower, but probably in many other ways as well.

Piumescu, Florescu, Printemps, Tipple, Flux, Zaungast, Damsel Leaf, Tulipa, Icanthis. 11 December 2025

I think I should have drawn these more but probably I have not labeled them all the times, as sometimes a pattern does not have a name yet. :D

Flost, Florescu, 15-25 October 2025

Stay tuned for more Fescu days!

My Patterns

Florescu

Flost

Piumescu

Zentangle Original Patterns

Flux

Icanthis

Printemps

Tipple

Other Patterns

Damsel Leaf

Tulipa

Zaungast

Vesq and Veslob - so natural, so Fescu

Today we start a small series with patterns inspired by Fescu. 

I have probably drawn Vesq more times in the past, I feel it is something that comes naturally out of my pen. I think I have not seen around by others, but who knows. When patterns are easy and natural I always have the doubt that somebody else could have found them natural.

Veslob is also quite natural for me.

About the names... Vesq is pretty similar to Fescu, especially if you take into account that some languages like German and Dutch read V as F. And Veslob is Vesq with a blob.

Vesq, Veslob, Printemps, Tipple, Sampson, Nanalee, Mythograph. 10-11 December 2025

I surely have it at least on one tea bag envelope.

Vesq, Imbranart, Printemps. 25 November 2025

My Patterns

Imbranart

Veslob

Vesq

Zentangle Original Patterns

Mythograph

Printemps

Sampson

Tipple

Other Patterns

Nanalee

Cospi - fill it festive!

Christmas is coming, and we have finally a festive tangle. It came out in one of my tea bag envelopes.

I called it cospi, since this "word" is included in the word biancospino, hawthorn, that somehow reminds this pattern.

Funny thing, we talked about biancospino several times with my Italian Zentangle group. Maybe it inspired me somehow. I also got some Chinese dried biancospino in an Asian market. I added it to a soup, but it should work better in teas. :D

Cospi, Flux, Printemps, Tipple, Zante. 9-10 December 2025

Cospi, Fronde. 5 December 2025

My Patterns

Cospi

Fronde

Zentangle Original Patterns

Flux

Printemps

Tipple

Other Patterns

Zante

Anosrib - More fillings, more souls

This basis of this pattern is pretty similar to KoiKoi. But it misses the extra belly. Since I did not do this S pattern yet, and have not seen it around. But it is so simple that it could be already somewhere. It came out in the brain storming page where collecting all the fish pattern ideas.

The name is very simple. ANOther S RIBbon.

It can be filled in so many different ways. Or not filled.

Anosrib, Flux, Tipple, Printemps. 6 December 2025

My Patterns

Anosrib

Zentangle Original Patterns

Flux

Printemps

Tipple

Caito - Small fish all around

I just noticed I had around 800 views lately, but I assume it was from some bots. Maybe some day I will have many visits from real people! And hopefully AI is not training with my tangles. :D

Back to my patterns. Today it's the turn of another fish pattern. Caito. Caito comes from Pescadito, that simply means small fish. If you vary a lot the pattern you can lose the fish idea, but this is true with every pattern. You can vary it so much that it becomes something very different!

I think this works great as a kind of reticula.

Caito, Sez, Negtip, Wadical, Fronde, Static, Printemps, Flux, Crescent Moon. 6 December 2025

And here the first tea bag envelope where I tangled the pattern.

Caito, Tipple, Static. 25 November 2025

My Patterns

Caito

Fronde

Negtip

Zentangle Original Patterns

Crescent Moon

Flux

Printemps

Sez

Static

Tipple

Wadical

Zeef - Sometimes bugs become fish

Another day, another fish pattern. This one is based on Bugz. I actually did this modification of Bugz quite some time ago, but decided to add the pattern since it was nice, easy, fun.

Why the name Zeef? It is similar to Fis, pronounced the other way round. I have to come up with easy names, or I will need more time to create names than to draw new patterns.

Zeef, Wirlz, Printemps. 28 December - 6 December 2025

Here you can see a plenty of variations of Bugz, among them also Zeef. I practically tangled it in my first ten days in the Zentangle sphere. 

Zeef, Bugz, Flux, Casinoda, Spiral Rose. 1 June 2025

And here a tea bag envelope with it.

Printemps, Bugz, Taiga. ~3-4 June 2025

My Patterns

Zeef

Zentangle Original Patterns

Flux

Printemps

Other Patterns

Bugz

Casinoda

Spiral Rose

Taiga

Wirlz

Tea Bag Envelopes - Part 35

So, almost again up to date with the tea bag envelopes!

I think there are a couple of ideas for new patterns around here as well.

For example here. Should I add this flower based on Fescu? Let me copy it in my brain storming pages!

Vesq, Imbranart, Printemps. 25 November 2025

Gelijoy. 26 November 2025

Something new here. The pattern hides and get almost invisible when surrounded by orbs. But the pattern has an interesting story. I thought it looks like the Star Wars Star Ships.

TaiFai, Sez, Tipple. 27 November 2025

It was some time I was not tangling a recent pattern from TanglePatterns.

Merry Bellz, Printemps. 27 November 2025

Here I was trying to render a variation of the starship, but it very much looks like Cadent. Simply. There's also a Fescu variation that popped up while doodling when taking down notes.

Cadent, Loomino. 27 November 2025

Box Spirals, Printemps, Flux. 28 November 2025

More patterns. This one looks like a box rose, there are maybe some similar around, roses are everywhere.

Angefi. 28 November 2025.

And what about this technique to draw lines of different length and then guessing the borders? I used the technique also for FanFan, I think it deserves a pattern as well. Even if it is a technique.

The outside pattern is not always exactly like Hokusai, but I will consider it Hokusai anyway. :)

Fronde, Pokeroot, Hokusai. 28 November 2025

I forgot the name of the shell pattern. If it has one.

Printemps, Flux, Marasu, Static, Wadical. 4 December 2025

Printemps. 4 December 2025

Some ideas here as well, but I will develop it later.

Crescent Moon, Printemps. 4 December 2025

Tipple. 4 December 2025

Here I have what I will get as a pattern.

Cospi, Fronde. 5 December 2025

Fronde, Printemps. 5 December 2025

It took for ever to find new names for every pattern! :D

My Patterns

Angefi

Cospi

Fronde

Imbranart

Loomino

TaiFai

Vesq

Zentangle Original Patterns

Cadent

Crescent Moon

Flux

Marasu

Pokeroot

Printemps

Sez

Static

Tipple

Wadical

Other Patterns

Box Spirals

Gelijoy

Hokusai

Merry Bellz