Making Cards with Spirograph or Wild Gears
Got spiro-skills? Use them to make unique, hand-drawn greeting cards with your Spirograph or Wild Gears.
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Two Wheel-Within-a-Wheel Videos
Two videos of making the same amazing full-page Wild Gears design using different colour combinations. Which do you prefer?
Continue reading →Fountain Pens, Zentangle and Wild Gears
Samantha learned about Wild Gears on this site, jumped on board Aaron’s Kickstarter campaign and got herself some sets. Now she combines them with her love of fountain pens and zentangle art. She created a thread on a forum dedicated to … Continue reading →
Spirograph Cookies! Eat ’em if you dare.
How many Spirograph cookies would you eat? I’d never heard of edible markers, but apparently they exist. And Amber Spiegel, a cookie artist in Beacon NY is not afraid to use them with Spirograph! Here is her video. You can learn … Continue reading →
Spirograph Color Play with the Spider Web: Ring 144/96, Wheel 84
I love playing with color with my felt pens, using gradations of color, sometimes in a limited color scheme, sometimes playing with the whole spectrum. One day, I was drawing with Spirograph ring 144/96 and wheel 84, the biggest one, using the … Continue reading →
More Spirograph Pens: Uni-Ball Vision
Here’s another brand of pen that I am enjoying using with Spirograph and Wild Gears. The ink flows smoothly, and there is no problem with the size of the holes, even on the old Spirograph with its smaller holes. This … Continue reading →
One Loop for Every Tooth: Spirograph Wheel 52
Back in the day, when I was a kid and the only pens we had to use with our Spirograph sets were the ballpoint ones that came with the set, I dreaded Wheel 52 with Ring 150/105! Why? Because the … Continue reading →
“Star of David” Six-Pointed Star by Spirograph
The Star of David, or hexagram, is composed of two equilateral triangles. With the Spirograph’s 144/96 ring, Wheel 32, using Hole 1, gives you a triangle. Simply draw the pattern once and then a second time, positioning the hole halfway … Continue reading →
Cool designs with felt pens
Here are some designs I’ve made with my Super Spirograph and various felt tip pens as I’ve described here. As you can see, there are lots more colors available these days, compared to the old days when the set came … Continue reading →
Spirograph pens: Felt-tip pens
UPDATED Nov. 23, 2023 Are you old enough to remember the ballpoint pens that came with the original Spirograph sets in the 1960s and 70s? There were four colors: red, green, blue and black. The frustrating thing about those pens, … Continue reading →