Crochet Garland Type 4 - Sutputali, Vastr-mala, Necklace, Haar

Hello friends, 

This Maala, necklace or Haar or garland I made for a special purpose which I explain later but those who are not concern with this festival purpose, may make it as a necklace to wear as accessories. In 2 or 3 colours as per your choice and it will look marvelous.

The festival purpose which I mentioned above is .....

This year from 9th August according to Indian calender Shravan month will be starting, in which we have number of important festivals and Pujas, like Nagpanchami on 13th, Rakshabandhan on 22th and Krishn Janmashtami on 30th of this month and lastly Pola on 6th Sep. Next to that will be Bhadrapad in which we celebrate Haritalika, Ganesh Chaturthi and many more ahead. Read about, Nagpanchami ,

Hartalika / Teej , Ganesh Chaturthi .

For worship in all these festivals, a cotton garland is made as follows. It is also known as Sutputali or Vastra Maal (in Marathi which means cotton garland)

Material: Cotton, Turmeric, Kumkum and water.

Cotton is spread length wise (fig 1) then finger is deep in water and it is pressed as shown, getting it's look as bud / bubble and stem. Lastly the stems are coloured by termeric and kumkum alternatly.

I made crochet sutputali with yarn.

I have taken white, yellow and red yarns 4 ply and crochet hook 1.75 mm.

Final length 17" weight 6 gm.

Pattern: 

Tie all the three colours together make a knot tightly.

Now with yellow yarn make ch1, insert hook below white and red yarns 

and make sc 6 on those two yarns.

Then take white yarn on hook, pull yellow yarn tightly, ch5 with white yarn, tr 6 in first white ch,

 remove hook from loop, inseert in first tr-st, pass the working yarn through it so that yellow and red yarn should be inside that popcorn.

Now to cover red, yellow yarn at bottom side,

make ch4 and join by sl st at the bottom , again ch4 and join by sc at the top of popcorn. Thus a closed popcorn made.

Now join red yarn, pull  white yarn tightly, make sc 6 by red yarn on white and yellow yarns. 

Then again make closed popcorn with yellow and red yarns inside that then sc 6 by yellow and so on.

Repeat this till there are 11 closed popcorns, lastly sc 6 by red.

Sutputali or cotton garland is made.

The following video may help you.

ETC : Enjoy the Creativity.