Community Helpers Series - Quilling Sweeper

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Quilling Sweeper

Sweeper is one of the corona warriors who has helped in keeping our environment neat and clean. A heartfelt thanks to them. I have tried to make Quilling Sweeper doll. You can refer to my earlier posts for the detailed steps.

The only change is the body shape. Here the body is made using 15 quilling strips. Make a tight coil followed by cone shape . 

Make the cone shape ( body ) in coordination with the face .  

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Quilled Goddess Lakshmi ( Varamahalakshmi special )

 Hi friends,

             Happy Varamahalakshmi Festival to all. 

Quilling Goddess Lakshmi

    Goddess Lakshmi is  the goddess of wealth, fortune, power, beauty and prosperity. I have tried to do the Goddess Lakshmi idol in quilling. I hope I have done justice to it. Tried to to sitting posture of the goddess with four hands.

I have also made two quilled elephants to keep on both sides of the goddess. I felt very happy seeing the complete idol. This is one of my favourite creations in quilling. 

Hope you all will like it.

You can visit my you tube link for the complete video :  Quilling Lakshmi Tutorial

I will show the complete steps:

1.Face:

• Make  a tight coil using 11 strips .
• Use peach colour for the front part and black colour for the back part.
• Make a small dome. Apply fevicol and allow it to dry.
• The neck is made using a single quilling strip . Make a tight coil and attach it to the face.

 

2. Body ( Upper part ):

  Note : Use 5 mm quilling strips

Upper part 1:

• Make a tight coil using 12 strips ( 8 peach and 4 green ) . Make a dome shape.
• Make another tight coil using 12 green strips . Make a slightly long dome.
• Attach both the cones as shown. 

Upper part 2 :

• Make a tight coil using 12 maroon strips. Make a dome shape.
• Make another tight coil using 12 green strips . Make a dome shape almost same as the previous one.
• Attach both the cones as shown. 

In between these two shapes make a tight coil using 6 quilling strips ( 5mm ) . I have used peach colour.

3. Body ( Lower part ):

• For the thighs , make a tight coil using 4 quilling strips . I have used red colour 5 mm strips. Make a cone shape.
• For the legs , make a tight coil using 2 quilling strips . I have used red colour 5 mm strips. Make a cone shape.
• Attach both the cones as shown. 
• I have decorated with gold decoration paper.

4. Feet :

Refer to the steps shown below. I have used only 5 mm peach colour quilling strip. The tight coil is made using a single strip.

Let me show you the picture of the whole body with parts attached.

5. Sleeve and hands:

• The blouse is made using one and half quilling strip ( 5 mm ). I have used green colour strip. Make a cone shape. 
• Similarly make another cone using peach colour quilling strip ( 5 mm ). 
• Attach both the cones as shown.
• Attach it to the body.

6. Palm:

Refer to the steps shown below. I have used only 3 mm peach colour quilling strip. The tight coil is made using a single strip.

7. Fully Decorated saree draped for the idol:

8. Crown:

The crown is made using 5 mm gold colour quilling strips. 

• Make a tight coil using 8 quilling strips. Make a cone shape.
• Make another tight coil using 6 green + 3 gold quilling strips.
• Decorate the crown with some kundans and ball chain.
  
  
  

Attach the head , Make the hairs using 5 mm black quilling strips. I have crimped the strips for the hairs. 

Put some jewellery for the goddess using stone line and ball chain. Draw the facial features to complete the Divine Lakshmi Goddess.

I have made two white elephants . Let me show the steps:

9 . Lotus:

• Make a tight coil using 25 quilling strips ( pink colour ). Use 5 mm strips. This acts as a base for the lotus.
•  Make a marquise shape using 4 quilling strips ( 5 mm ) . I have used pink colour strips. 

• Take a bowl of the appropriate size and keep sticking the shapes adjacent to each other as shown.

To make the bowl shape , you can refer to my  Quilling basket tutorial where I have shown in detail.

10. Elephant:

• I have used 5 mm white quilling strips for the face. each coil is made  using 11 quilling strips.
• For the body make 4 coils. First coil is made using 5 mm quilling strips. The rest three coils is made using 10 mm quilling strips. Each coil is made using 13 strips.
• The legs are made using 10 mm quilling strips. Each leg is made using 2 quilling strips.
• The ears are made using 2 quilling strips ( 5 mm ). Make a triangle shape.
• Decorate the elephant using some design papers.

The complete elephant looks like this:

I hope you liked my beautiful creation. Please post your comments.

Independence Day Special - Quilling soldier

 Hi friends,

 This post for participating in # IQCG 82. The theme is a soldier along with our National  Flag. Indianquillingchallenge 

Wish you all a Happy Independence Day

Lets salute all the soldiers - our real heroes , who protect our country. I have made a quilled soldier doll to pay respect to all the soldiers.

You can refer to my earlier post for the doll making steps.

Community Helpers Series - Quilling Policeman

 Hi friends,

Quilling Policeman

     Let me start a new series of Quilling dolls - Community helpers. A community helper is a person who performs jobs that helps improve the overall well-being of the community. They keep the community safe and healthy. One such important community helper is Policeman. He is one of the corona warriors during this tough situation.  I have tried to make a Policeman Quilling doll. 

Let me explain the steps.

Most of the doll is made using Brown ( Khaki ) colour quilling strips. Mainly I have used 5 mm and 10 mm quilling strips. 

The face part and the neck part , you can refer to my earlier posts.

1. Body ( Upper Part ) :

• Make 4 open coils . Each coil is made by rolling 12 quilling strips. The topmost coil is made using 5 mm quilling strips. The rest three coils are made using 10 mm strips.
• The 5 mm coil( topmost coil ) should be made a slight dome shape.
• Attach all the four coils (using fevicol ) as shown.
• Allow it to dry
  

2.Body ( Lower Part ):

• Make an open coil using one  10 mm quilling strip ( brown colour ) .
• Make two tight coils , each using 4 quilling strips. I have used 10 mm quilling strips. 
• Make a long cone for the pants. apply fevicol and allow it to dry.
• Attach the open coil with the pants as shown.

Attach the upper and the lower body parts. Make the belt using black quilling strip (5 mm ).  The shoes is also made using 5 mm quilling strips. Make a tear drop shape for the shoes. I have kept a gun and a stick for the policeman. You can use your own creativity. 

The policeman cap is also made using brown colour strips. 

Draw the facial features to complete the doll.