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Sunday, 25 September 2016

Varaha Avatar

The third Avatar in the Dashavatar series is the Varaha Avatar. In this Avatar , Lord Vishnu takes the form of a Varaha( Boar) to kill the demon Hiranyaksha. After Pralaya , at the beginning of the new Kalpa , Mother Earth was tossed about on the waves and was captured by the demon and prisioned in the bottom of the ocean. At that time Lord Vishnu took the form of a boar. He then released the Mother Earth by lifting her out of the flood waters and killed the demon Hiranyaksha, The Varaha was the only form through which the demon could have been killed because of the boon given by Lord Brahma.

In this post I am showing you how to make this quilling doll.

Face ( Step 1 - 6 ):

The face is divided into two parts.

Front part ( Step 1 - 3 ) :

This is the mouth which is in the shape of a boar with horns.
For this you need to make two coils and stick them one above the other. ( Here I have used yellow color quilling strip ).
For the first coil I have attached 6 quilling strips of 5 mm dimension. Make a tight coil , then make a cone.
For the second coil I have attached 4 quilling strips of 5 mm dimension. Make a tight coil , then make a cone.

Back part ( Step 4 - 6 ):

Attach 4 black color quilling strips of 5 mm dimension. Make a small projection to form the back part of the head. Join the front and the back part .

Horns ( Step 7 ) :

Here I have used 3 mm brown color quilling strips. Take half a strip , make a petal shape . Make two of such shape to form a horn. You need to attach it to the front part of the mouth.

Step 7

Neck ( Step 8 ) :

Attach 3 quilling strips of 5 mm dimension. Make a tight coil.

Body ( Step 9 - 11 ) :

Take a 10 mm quilling strip of a light color. Attach 5 quilling strips and make a tight coil. Make 3 such coils and attach one above the other. Attach the neck to the body.

Hands ( Step 12 ) :

Take a yellow color 5 mm quilling strip and make a loose coil. Fold on two sides to give it a rectangle shape. Bend it a little and the hands are ready. Make two hands. For making the other two hands of the Lord along with the Shankhu and Chakra please refer to the earlier Dashavatar posts.

Dhoti ( Step 13 and Step 14 ) :

Take a 10 mm quilling strip of brown color. Attach two strips and make a tight coil. Make a cone, make two such cones and attach them adjacent to each other. You can give a border to make it look attractive.

Legs and Feet ( Step 15-19 ):

Take a 10 mm yellow color quilling strip . Take a 1/4 th of a quilling strip and make a tight coil. Make two such coils which will act as legs for the Lord.

Take a 5 mm yellow color quilling strip. Roll it and make a triangle shape. Make two such coils . This will make the feet of the Lord. Attach the legs of the Lord to the body . You can also but a beautiful border for the waist using a gold color border.

Earth ( Step 20 - 22 ) :

I have used 5 mm quilling strip. Attach 4 quilling strips of two colours ( green and blue ) in an alternate pattern. Make a tight coil and form a small cone shape. Make two such cones and attach both of them.

Crown ( Step 23 ):

I have attached two color quilling strips( Gold and blue ) and made a tight coil. Make a cone and decorate using kundan to complete the crown.

Attach the crown to the head . Attach all the body parts. Draw the eyes and the quilling doll is ready.

Once your quilling doll is ready , you can decorate the idol by putting a bead chain to the neck of the God. You can also stick kundan in the middle . Arrange the dasara dolls during the navarathri festival. It will look very beautiful. I hope you liked my creativity of making this doll. Please share your views on this. Please watch this space for more in the Dashavatar series.

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Sunday, 11 September 2016

Kurma Avatar

The second Avatar is the Kurma Avatar. In this Avatar , Lord Vishnu takes the form of a Kurma ( Turtle). When the devas and asuras undertook the task of churning the milk ocean with the Mandara mountain as the churning rod and using Vasuki ( king of serpents ) as the churning rope. The mountain started sinking during the churning. At that time Lord Vishnu incarnated as Kurma ( tortoise ) to support the mountain.

In this post I am showing you how to make this quilling doll.

Face ( Step 1 to Step 3 ):

I have used 5 mm quilling strips. For the front part of the face I have used 3 strips of blue color.
Attach 3 quilling strips and make a tight coil. Slightly make a cone.
For the back part of the face I have used black color . Make a tight coil using 3 strips.
Attach these two parts and complete the face by drawing the eyes , nose and mouth.

Neck ( Step 4 ) :

Make a tight coil using two blue color 5 mm quilling strips.

Body ( Upper part Step 5 and 6 ):

For this I have used 10 mm quilling strips. Make a a tight coil using 4 quilling strips of purple color. Make two such coils. Attach the one above the other.

Body ( Lower part Step 8 - Step 11 ):

For this I have used 5 mm green color quilling strip. Make a tight coil using 20 quilling strips. Then make a small cone. Make two of such coils one for the front and one for the back. Take a yellow color quilling strip and cut it into small pieces and stick it on the green coil. This will give a tortoise look to the body.

Hands and Legs ( Step 12 ):

I have used 5 mm yellow color quilling strips. Make a tight coil using one quilling strip. Make four such coils ( two for hands and two for legs ).Stick the hands and legs to the body .

Tail ( Step 13 ):

Make a triangle shape using a single green color 5 mm quilling strip . Stick the tail to the body of the tortoise.

Crown ( Step 14 ) :

I have used 5 mm quilling strip. Make a tight coil using 3 gold color quilling strips. Form a cone shape and place it on the head of the lord. You can stick kundans to decorate the crown.

Hands ( Step 15 and 16 ) :

I have made four hands for the lord. The first two hands are made using 5 mm blue color single quilling strip. Make a semi circle , bend it a little and attach it to the body on two sides.

For the other two hands, I have used a single 5 mm quilling strip. Make a tight coil and form a small cone shape. I have placed a chakra (disc) and a shankha (conch shell) ( Step 17 and 18 ) on the two hands. Please refer to the picture. Attach these two hands behind the previous hands.