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.

 

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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. 

The complete doll looks like this:

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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