Alka and Arts: Crochet Kite for Sankranti Decoration / Bookmark

Hello friends,

Sankranti festival is followed by Kite festival. So in Sankranti Kite is very important. Women (married) organizes "Haldi Kumkum" at their home on this occasion. They invite other married women apply Haldi kumkum, perfume and sprinkle rose water to them considering them as Goddess, then offer OTI (means wheat, and the peas, carrot pieces etc) and Tilgul requesting to keep the relations always sweet. Then offers some small gift. When I was young, generally the small things gifted were supporting the spirituality then slowly it is shifted to giving some small useful gifts just as I made crochet small bags, coin bags, keychains for offering gifts.

On the occassion of Haldi kumkum, women make beautiful decorations. These are some items I have crocheted for Sankranti decoration.

1 Kuiri (Haldi - kumkum box with special shape....

https://youtu.be/_18Pc5oVwSQ

2. Decorating Tilgul and Halwa pot holders...

https://youtu.be/S1QMUHVnH2w

3. Decoration of Gift items, these are not my creations but one of the lovely subscriber ASWINI, of my youtube channel Kalopasak made these lots of keychains using the following videos and display them so beautifully. She is going to give them to her friends (other married women invited for Haldi kumkum).

Frock keychain: https://youtu.be/gNIFrF1r_DI

Bag keychain: https://youtu.be/tSr1wwSFR9s

Another friends subscriber PRITI made this one as a Sankranti gift.

This year I made these Kites for Sankranti Decoration and after Sankranti you can use them as Bookmarks. In the next post, I will show my crochet tilgul and Halwa, Sankranti special dessert.

Kite: Pattern:

I used 4ply yarn 1.75 mm hook

Height 3” width 2” weight 2 gm

With orange yarn make Chs 11+1 (Any number of odd chains).