Chukki rangoli kolam for Bhogi

 Rangoli tips - To get a compact rangoli  place the dots as closely as possible.  This way we can accommodate it even in small spaces 

How do I remember so many designs.  Usually when I plant to draw the kolam, I retrieve it from my memory where I have stored lots of kolam.  

With years of experience sometimes I use something akin to mnemonics to recall a design.  Many a time, I follow some set of rules, I decide are necessary to go about a kolam.  

All these are applicable for chukki rangoli and sikku kolam.  For freehand patterns, I am not fettered by anything, I can expand the design radially to infinity.  

Here again the only constraint is that I have some rules made by me for matching motifs, adjacent or drawn radially in the next radius.

It is always preferable to start at the centre for star-based dot patterns.

                                         The dot pattern is 10,9,8,7,8,9,10 and 3,2,1 dot on either side

Star dot pattern in kolam

Place the dot grid, draw the pattern at the centre, I think that this rangoli requires a fair share of steps through pictures.  So, I have uploaded more than the usual number of pics.  Coming back to the topic there are times when I have to watch my video or steps through to know how I have drawn kolam.  This happens occasionally. It happened in the case of a viral rangoli with dots created by me with 7 by 4 dots.

Chukki rangoli with dots 10 dots

connect the edges to get hexagons. The size of the dot grid can be increased proportionally to create and bigger and complicated rangoli 

Chukki rangoli aankhon vidhana

                               All lines are drawn outside the dot grid and are do not connect the dots

A variation by drawing lines with different colours instead of white kolam can be tried

chukki rangoli beautiful

These chukki rangoli designs with dots when used with diya patterns as shown can be drawn for Diwali easy rangoli designs for home also 

To get an awesome rangoli design draw the lines without joints.  This point I invariably stress in many posts. 

For our family, Bhogi is a festival as important as Sankranthi.  When we were young and lived in a small town, my parents gave us new clothes to wear. 

 We had to take oil bath, go to the nearby temple wearing the new clothes (just like Dipavali).

People performed kolattam (also called stick dance in which women hit small sticks with rhythm, music and dance) on the streets. 

 They came to the houses in the streets with a big bag.  which was filled with newly harvested rice by the residents.  We made a mixed vegetable dish called goth bhaji using fresh vegetables.

  Invariably relatives and friends came to our house, and we also went to their houses. 

These step-by-step pics should make it clear about this chukki rangoli aankhon vidhana.  Try this for Makar Sankranti too.