Manipuri Doll-Amigurumi way

I am fascinated with anything and everything manipuri...:) because I am an all out meitei who loves to eat ngari, hawaijar, soibum...lol.

I may not eat red meat, chicken, poultry products but am a born fishitarian. I love to look at fishes and eat them too. But some of the fishes from discovery channel/ national geographic/ Animal planet looks creepy and I can't imagine myself eating those. So, what I mean is that I love eating white fishes (fresh water ones) and specialy the ones we get in manipur from fisheries.

And I love the manipuri wedding dress and the manipuri dolls. I never failed to pick manipuri dolls on every festival. During festive seasons, I use to go to market with my mom and she would always buy manipuri dolls for me. I still remember how I used to enjoy playing with them for hours and hours.

I have tried long time back in 2003 to make a manipuri doll the typical manipuri way but it turns out horrible.:(

This time, I tried amigurumi way. Initially I started writing down the pattern but latern on I got to lazy to write .so, just keep crocheting and the final product is this

I still have to buy her an enaphi.

Hello Kitty-Amigurumi

10th Sep 2009, A very Happy day indeed.:)

When I got up in the morning and was getting ready to leave for office around 6.30am in the morning. I have been told by my dad that it has been raining the entire night. Still I venture out of home at my usual time for office at 7am. On normal days, it takes around 2 hours for me to reach office in Gurgaon from my home in Ghaziabad. On abnormal days :), the hours just continues...

So, 10th Sep 2009 turns out to be one such days when the hours taken to reach office just continues. Luckily for me, I got my crochet needle, woolen thread in my bag and I started crocheting while we were stranded and stuck in never ending trafic jams. The roads of delhi looks like rivers, actually wild river-water flowing out and in everywhere..

After struggling for 3 hours in delhi roads, we finally reach the millenium city, Gurgaon-where the area near our office looks like an Island. Our cab, being a small car almost stop once on a waterlogged stretch in Udyog Vihar. My heart stop for a while at that moment thinking about the nightmare of walking through that dirty looking water. Lucky again, our cab got started again and we finally reach another office building of our company(Plot 314). From there we took company ferry cabs as they are bigger cars and we left our cab there. From plot 314, it usually takes about 5 mins to reach my office(Plot 17), but on this day-it took us almost 2 hours to reach Plot 17.

All and all, a very tiresome and horrible experience of travelling through delhi NCR roads.

But one good thing I did was that I finish the bodice of my Hello Kitty doll in Amigurumi art during that time spend in the cab. I made the frock on 12th Sep 2009 and gave her the finishing touch. So here is her pic..

And today I have become chachi again..one more girly in the family..I am thrilled and excited ...

Improving Madhubani

Working and learning Madhubani art is quite addictive. I love the loud/ bright colours of this painting with simple childlike designs.
In reality, I am a person who likes only sober colour. Frankly, it gives me shivers whenever I think of donning bright colour clothes. But I am surely in love and immensely attracted to this form of art.
Another secret of my admiration for this art is that, I can draw human figures in any damn way, without caring whether the eyes, lips or nose is correct and proportionate. Actually my human figure diagrams are awful.
So, to improve my learning in this art form, I have added a human figure in this painting.

Madhubani Painting - I guess!

Its been something about 6 years since I first set my eyes on Madhubani Painting. I came across this type of painting in Delhi Haat and I was amaze at the beauty of this kind of painting with such simple designs. I keep planning to buy one big painting for my own collection, but due to its rate I keep postponing till today. Then, I started planning to paint one such huge painting seen in Delhi Haat. Unfortunately I couldn't find out any teachers nearby who teaches madhubani style of painting. So, I kinda kept my idea of painting madhubani at the back of mind. Since about 2 months , the idea of painitng madhubani again kept resurfacing in my mind. I have started searching the web for any tutorial on madhubani painting but couldn't find one.
I have studied some of the images of madhubani found on the web. So, I am trying to put some of my ideas into creating a madhubani painting. I have created couple of them, they are not big size and also I am not sure whether all my designs are pure madhubani or not. But, I am liking it.:)
I am uploading the images before it goes into colour filling.

Amigurumi Mermaid

This is not a complete pattern but I have covered the tail, hands and head. If anyone is interested

Pattern for Tail(Make 2):
1. Magic ring of 3 sc(3)
2. 2sc, sc in 2 st(4)
3. sc, 2sc, sc in 2 st(5)
4. sc in 2st, 2sc, sc in 2st(6)
5. sc in 3st, 2sc, sc in 2st (7)
6. sc in 4st, 2sc, sc in 2st(8)
7. sc in 4st, 2sc, sc in 3st (9)
8. sc in 5st, 2sc, sc in 3st(10)
9. sc in 5st, 2sc, sc in 4st(11)
10. sc in 6st, 2sc, sc in 4st(12)
11. sc2tog, sc in 10(11)
12. sc2tog, sc in 3st, sc2tog, sc in 4st (9)
13. sc2tog, sc in 2st, sc2tog, sc in 3st(7)
Join both pieces...


Hand pattern(Make 2):
1. Magic ring of 3sc(3)
2. 2sc in each st(6)
3. (2sc, sc)x3 times(9)
4-5. 9sc
6. sc2tog, sc in 7st(8)
7. sc2tog, sc in 6st(7)
8. sc2tog, sc in 5st(6)
9-18. 6sc
fasten off.


Head Pattern:
1.Magic ring of 6sc(6)
2. sc in each sc(12)
3. (sc, 2sc) x 6 times(18)
4. (sc, 2sc, sc) x 6 times (24)
5. (sc, sc, 2sc, sc) x 6 times (30)
6. (sc, 2sc, sc in 4 st) x 6 times (42)
7-12. 42 sc
13. (sc, sc, sc2tog, sc) x 6 times (30)
14.(sc, sc2tog, sc) x 6 times (24)
15. (sc, sc2tog) x 6 times(18)
16. sc2tog x 6 times (12)
17. sc2tog till closed.
Fasten off

Amigurumi- Dolphin

I have been searching free patterns for Dolphins on the web. Didn't come across anything. So. I started crocheting as by now I have fair idea about the increase and decrease. I haven't written the pattern in detail, but defintely note down few.

Amigurumi-fish

I kind of like fish a lot. So, I am a fishitarian.lol

I tried this fish from the free patterns available at the blog below. She has really really amazing stuff in her blog. I wish I could crochet as beautiful as her. I have learned crochet when I was in school, but never made anything out of that. Actually when I started reading patterns, it blew my head away. But once, I got a hang of what its written, its quite simple. he he. http://mygurumi.blogspot.com/2008/11/chubby-fish-pattern.html