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Queen Bees

Here is one more Rangoli-this time Queen Bee. You know, Queen Bees occupy an important position in the colony of bees. Though they are only meant for producing more and more bees, with out a queen bee there is no hive.Worker bees select the larva and develop it into queen bee. She is specially fed and developed so that she can quickly produce the bees. Usually there is only one Queen in a hive. Most of the bees living in the hive are given birth by her. 

My grandma used to say that if queen bee leaves the hive, other bees too follow. Any way here is the Rangoli of queen Bees:

This is 21 to 1 dots. You can see it from above how to place dots and how to join the dots. Hope you like it.

Keep a watch on my blog....More to come......

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Celebrating Christmas 

One of the things I love during this month long Rangoli festival is that we get so many occasions or festivals where we can show our creativity through our Rangoli designs.  Since Christmas is fast approaching I am experimenting  on creating some thing based on this theme. 

Here is one of my attempts.

This is 20 dots 2 rows in the center. Then leaving one dot on each side place 18, 16, 14 ....till you reach two dots Placed like this.

Then join as shown in the design. 

I have drawn, bells holy, candles, candy sticks and curly paper ribbons. I have used the traditional colours of Red, Green, white and blue. I tried for the festive look. I hope that I have succeeded in bringing across the same.

So come join me in celebrating the Christmas and the festive season.....Oh! by the way, this Christmas why don't you try something new to decorate your house. How about this Rangoli design on your doorstep, filled in with red and green colours? Wont your friends and family be surprised? So try it out and let me know.

Hope you like them. I will be posting much more...So keep an eye on my blog.....

Friday-Free Patterns

Elaine thank you so much for your comments. I am glad that you follow my blog and I am glad to know that you enjoy my posts. My thanks to all my friends who follow my posts and also leave comments and suggestions . Your comments motivate me to post more and more.

On Elaine's request I am posting the examples of these motifs (I have so far shared with you) used as designs. Well these have been painted on my sari. These are paintings on fabric as folk/tribal art.  I have a cotton sari cream white in colour which has got these motifs al lover it. 

It looks like these motifs have been first block printed (outline) and then when they have dried out the inner part is filled by using  block printed with required colour. Why I say filled by block print is that if you see it closely, some of the filling has gone askew or come out of the outlines. May be some of the motifs have been filled in using brush. The paint used is fabric paint .

Hope it is clear now Elaine. I like your suggestion. Next time I post motifs, I will also post these used in a design.