Crochet Doily for Sankranti Festival:

Hi friends, In my post on 15 Mar 2018 and 11 Jan 2020, I have written about the Makar Sankranti festival and importance of black colour in that.The colour which is not suppose to wear on any auspicious day but it is mainly worn on this Makar Sankranti festival. That's why I made these two doilies in which specially I used Black colour as a main colour. First fig shows the first doily and second can be seen in my next post. I used Black, Grey and White yarns for this and 3.5 mm crochet hook. It's diameter 12" and weight 60 gm. Pattern: Make a ring of ch4 with white yarn. Always make first dc as ch3. R1: (dc1, ch2) 8 times, cl by sl st in third ch (in first dc).

R2: (dc 3 in ch2-gap, ch2) 8 times, cl.

R3: With grey yarn make, (dc3 in ch2-gap, ch2) 8 times, cl.

R4: (dc1 in each dc-st, dc 3 in ch2-gap) 8 times, cl (48 sts)

R5: Join black colour yarn at any st, (dc1, ch1) in each st, cl (48 ch1-sp and 48 dcs)

R6: (dc 3 in ch1 gap, skip one ch1-gap) rep, cl.

R7: Join white yarn at the space between two dc3-dc3. ch1, (sc 1 in same sp, ch 15, sc 1 in same sp, sc 1 in each of next 2 sts) rep, cl. (we have 24 ch15-loops).

R8: In each ch15-loop, make (sc 1 in 7 chs, sc3 in next ch, sc 1 in 7 chs), cl.

R9: Join grey colour at second sc made in the loop, in each loop (skip first st, sc 1 in 7 sts, sc3 in next, sc1 in 7 sts, skip last st), cl.

R10: Same as round 9, skip first and last st, (sc7, (sc3), sc7), cl. R11: Join black colour in second st (skipping first sc st). same as round 10. R12: same as R11. R13: same as round 12. Bind off.

The following video with English subtitles may help you. ETC: Enjoy the Creativity.

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).

R1: sc 1 in each ch starting from second (11)

R2: 2sctog, sc 1 in 7 sts, 2sctog, ch 1 turn. (9)

R3: 2sctog, sc 1 in 5 sts, 2sctog, ch 1 turn. (7)

R4: 2sctog, sc 1 in 3 sts, 2sctog, ch 1 turn. (5)

R5:  2sctog, sc 1 in 1 sts, 2sctog, ch 2 turn, (3)

R6: incomplete dc 1 in next 2 sts, YO pass through all sts on hook, BO.

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Join green yarn at the first ch (out of 11 chs of starting).

R1: 2sctog, sc 1 in 7 sts, 2sctog, ch 1 turn. (9)

R2: sc 1 in each st, ch1 turn, (9)

 R3: 2sctog, sc 1 in 5 sts, 2sctog, ch 1 turn. (7)

R4: sc 1 in each st, ch1 turn, (7)

R5: 2sctog, sc 1 in 3 sts, 2sctog, ch 1 turn. (5)

R6: sc 1 in each st, ch1 turn, (5)

R7: 2sctog, sc 1 in 1 sts, 2sctog, ch 1 turn. (3)

R8: sc 1 in each st, ch2 turn, (3)

R9: 3dctog, BO

Border: Join jari yarn and make sc 1 in each st, at corner make sc 1 extra. At the top, make ch1-picot extra.

Keep the long end as in kite. Also fix small tassels as shown. Then have a beautiful embroidery as shown in fig 1.

The following video with English subtitles may help you.

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Crochet Beautiful Black Draw String Bag 15 (Batawa)

Black Batawa Specially for Sankranti

Fig 1

Hello friends,
One more creation is this Batava, specially black for Sankranti. I have written many things about this festival in my post,
https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=sankranti+festival
One more thing about this festival is, in Maharashtra ladies wear black sarees on this occassion. Black colour has very much importance on this festival. Otherwise black is supposed to be in aspesious on other days by Hindus. Two reasons are given for the importance of black colour.
1. To fight with evil, darkness wear black
and other reason is more scientific,
2. This is the end of winter and beginning of spring so cold wave is on it's top hence to face cold wear black which is absorbant of heat and we feel warm.
So beautiful black sarees, paithanis with beautiful contrast borders are gifted to the newly married girl on her first Sankranti after marriage. See fig 2,3 and 4.

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So if your daughter or daughter in law is newly married then you can make such Black and green or black and red batava for her as per the saree you purchased.
For this batava, I used 4 ply Vardhamaan black wool 50 gms and green 25 gms and 3.5 mm hook. We also need two beads, instead of that also you can make two small pom-pom.  It's size is, height 7" and diameter of base 5.5".

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 Pattern:
R1: In a magic loop ch3, dc 11, close by slip st in third ch. (12 sts) ch 3turn,
R2: dc 1 in same st, dc 2 in each of the next st till end, close by sl st. (24 sts). ch 3 turn,
R3:dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next, (dc 2 in next st, dc 1 in next) repeat till end, close by sl st, (36 sts), ch 3 turn, fig 5.
R4:dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next, (dc 2 in next st, dc 1 in each of the next 2 sts) repeat till end,

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close by sl st, (48 sts), ch 3 turn,fig 6.
R5:dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next, (dc 2 in next st, dc 1 in each of the next 3 sts) repeat till end, close by sl st, (60 sts), ch 3 turn,
R6:dc 1 in same st, dc 1 in next, (dc 2 in next st, dc 1 in each of the next 4 sts) repeat till end, close by sl st, (72 sts), ch 3 turn, fig 5.5".
Measure the diameter, if it is 5.5 or as you want then stop the increase round, otherwise make one more increase round as (dc 2 in next st, dc 1 in each of the next 5 sts). Then the sts will be 84. But in my case I stopped after 6 rounds.
R7 to R9: ch 3, dc 1 in each st, close by sl st (72 sts). See fig 8.

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 R10: ch 3, dc 1 in each of the next 6 sts, (ch 1, skip 1 st, dc 1 in each of the next 7 sts) repeat till last st remain, ch 1 skip that st, close by sl st.
After this round we can see, 1 window, 7 dcs. Fig 9.

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 R11: ch 4 (3 as first dc and ch 1 for window) skip 1 st, dc 1 on each of the next 3 sts, [ (ch 1 skip 1 st dc 1 in next) 3 times, dc 1 in next 2 sts] repeat till end, (ch 1, skip 1 st, dc 1) one more time, ch 1 close by sl st,


That is in this row, there will be 3 windows, 3 dcs. Fig 10.
R12: ch 4 (as above), (skip 1 st, dc 1 in next, ch 1) repeat till end, skip  1st and close.
In this round we formed all windows. Fig 11. Then join green colour yarn.

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R13: ch 3, dc a in gap, dc a on dc of previous row, {ch 2, (then we have to make flower with 5 peteals as shown in fig 13.) [YO insert in window number 1 in fig 13, YO take a long st(as long as dc)] 3 times, petal 1 made now [ YO insert in window number 2 in fig 13, YO take a long st(as long double dc)] repeat 3 times, petal 2 made, in widow 2, with long st double that of dc, ( fig 14), then [ YO insert in window number 3 in fig 13, YO take a long st(as long treble dc)] repeat 3 times, in widow 3, with long st treble that of dc, ( as in fig 13), petal 3 made, similarly make petal 4 in window number 4 and then petal 5 in window number 5 of fig 15.

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 Now there are 31 sts on the hook, YO and pass through all of them, ch 1 and fix the flower, fig 16. Ch2, skip 1 window as in fig 13, dc 1 on dc of previous round, dc 1 in gap, dc 1 on previous round dc, see fig 17} repeat all over, close by sl st. Join black color.

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R14: As round 10 (window 1 dcs 7) but this time window should be on the 3 green dcs of previous round, see fig 18.
If necessary go at the required space by slip st.
R15: as round 11.
R16: as round 12. Join green.
R17: as round 13.
New flower will be in between the two flowers of the round 13. See fig 19

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R18 to R22: as R7 .
R23: as round 12.
R24 and R25: as R7.
Bind off.
Now for bottom border join green colour at some st after 6 round.

Border: ch 1 [sc 1 in 3 sts (starting from first st), 4ch-picot] repeat till end, bind off.

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See fig 21.
Make two cords of simply chains of length 20". Fig 22.

Fig 23

 Also make two tassels with green or black or both mix colours. I used both yarns for tassels.

Now thread one cord through the windows of round 23 when it is half the way thread a bead in that, thread the other part, tie the two ends of the cord and also tie tassel to that cord, it will look as fig 23.

Then thread other cord starting from the bead side, thread the bead in half way, complete as first cord.
Your beautiful bag is ready as shown in fig 1.
The following video may help you.

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