New and/or New to Me
I've started using an app this week that keeps tangle patterns organized. I use it as an IOS app on my ipad; it backs up and restores via Dropbox, so it's on my iphone, too. Whether or not it is also available for Android, I do not know. The name of the app is Doodle Patterns. Yes, I don't love the word Doodles either, but I'm over it. You can read about it at its website, doodle-patterns.com. I had some questions and have emailed with the app designer, Katherine Newman. She answered my emails very quickly. It's a nice little app that works well. At first it seemed a little bare bones to me, but it isn't; it does just what I need it to do. Which is to arrange all the images of tangle patterns that I have downloaded as image files and allow me to name each one (to put them in order, and to make the names searchable) and to tag them in any way I want to. I started with over 800 patterns, but adding 20 or so at a sitting is helping me eliminate duplicates and poor quality images. And that has led me to the discovery of someone named Mari Vasilisina. She lives in Russia; among her talents is that she draws clear and good-quality step-outs of many, many patterns. (I traced her back to Instagram, where she is vasilisinamari, but then I found her at Pinterest, which is much easier to go through. Search Vasilisina and Zentangle. I've copied maybe 100 of her images and will be putting them into Doodle Patterns as I go along. I can't begin to list the different ways I've tried to keep track of patterns over the last few years. I'm hoping these two finds will keep me for a good while. Thanks for stopping by.