Monday, September 9, 2019

Niranjan: Prayer Light:
Fig 1
Hello friends,
Specially for Ganesh Chaturthi or a festival season, I made different crochet items required for Puja or God's worship. Here is Niranjan, a special type of lamp which burns with ghee and cotton wick, for details please see my post,
https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=aarti+plate
You can also see the simple Niranjan in fig 2.
Fig 2








Ghee and cotton wick soaked in ghee is placed above and it is lightened. About wicks also I have said in above post of my blog.
Fig 3 shows that how Niranjan a special type of lamp is used in God's worship in India. You can also see  stand ofr incense stick as I have explained in previous post.
Here is how crochet Niranjan is made.
I use 4 ply yellow wool and 2.5 mm crochet hook.
Pattern: Make 20 chains (ch) with yellow yarn and join by sl st with the first ch to form a ring.
R1: ch 2 , half double crochet (hdc) in each st, join by sl st to the first hdc. Pass the st on hook to the bottom base by slip st (20 sts).
R2: ch 1, single crochet (sc) 1 in each st (20 sts)
R3: Ch 2, (2hdctog) repeat till end close. (10 sts)
R4: ch 1, (2sctog)  repeat close, (5sts)
R5: ch1, sc 2 in each st, close (10 sts)
R6: As R5. (20 sts)
R7: ch 1, (sc 2 in next st, sc 1 in each of the next 2 sts) repeat till end close (26 sts) BO.
Lastly crab stitch border at the bottom.
Wick: With white yarn make ch 1, sc 6 in a magic loop, close with sl st in first sc.
R1: ch 1, sc 2 in each st close (12 sts)
Bring the yarn and st toward the centre by sl st and take it out at the centre, ch 5 and sl st 1 in each st from second st from hook. BO.
Now join yellow yarn at the top ch of the central 5 chs. Make ch 4 and incomplete dc 3 in the first ch, Yarn over and pass through all of them. Close to form a flame.
Ghee: Cut small pieces of scrab white yarn as small as you can and spread it over the upper deep portion as a ghee then put a wick in that.

The following video may help you to make this.

ETC: Enjoy the Creativity.

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