We had found and bought this gorgeous little girls dress with the specific intention of dismantling it and reconstructing as an outfit for KRISHNA!
My sister Radha dasi worships this most exquisite Krishna, and it is my pleasure to be Krishna’s personal tailor. So Radha & Sita adventures in dressing Krishna commence with such fun ambition!
raw materials extremely sparkly!
add extra decoration to the pink pants for Krishna
Extreme decoration at Krsna ankles
The pattern allows for slipping down between his legs and over the joined leg section on Krishna murti
When I first stitched on this section it was a bit unattractive with blue net. I used gold sequins to cover and stitch down the net
embelleshed with gold sequins
A shawl, a vest, a skirt!
The final PANTS with the overskirt and shawl and vest!
Using a lightweight shantung silk of a nearly perfect matching color (it took close to an hour to decide from my fabric silks which match was the best of 3!) I made pants.
The pants I added on the beautiful decorations and fresh gold sequins.
The little cap sleeves of the dress made perfect vest! You can see it in the pictures.
Using the net overskirt, I made a shawl and also the overskirt for Krsna – adding on extra embelishments and a special piece at the waist.
The outfit was looking beautiful! I was going to end it there! and I shared pictures with Radha and she said… what about a turban. HAHAH
Well she sent some inspiration – this princely picture of a turban, and it is what I was hugely inspired by.
Taking cue from this picture, I decided on a side mount of the remaining pieces of bling! I also used some more net, to do an extended long turban section, inspired by the above. Net fans and braid fans as well as some gorgeous accessories from India of peacock and fuschia jewels with peacock feathers were inserted.
I haven’t set up any pant tutorials for you yet, but when I do, and when I have the turban tutorial, I will update this post with links for you.
Krishna deity stands with beautiful three fold bending form holding flute dressed in fuschia pink and turquoise outfit with skirt, vest and shawl
In the meantime, enjoy admiring sweet Sri Krishna in His Valentines day outfit!
rocking cradle for Krsna dolls painted blue with daisy and blueberry folk art style and blue flowery bedding wooden cradle on pink background
Baby krsna doll blue boy krsna tucked into a wooden rocking cradle painted red with folkstyle art flowers in gold on the sides of the cot and a pink sheet
Baby krsna doll blue boy krsna tucked into a wooden rocking cradle painted red with folkstyle art flowers in gold on the sides of the cot and a pink sheet
Offer Ornaments for His sweet head with a Crown – Various styles of mukut available for His Size!
opulent and princely, this crown has the shape of a turban and unique falling fringe of studded gemstones.
Adorn Radha & Krsna in this sweet pair of custom Mukut pink crowns. Perfect for your Remember Krishna dolls
Srimate Radharani - Radhika! She who brings pleasure to Sri Krishna What could be sweeter than Radha to play with Krishna?!
Lord Balaram – the protective elder brother of Sri Krishna
Give Krishna butterpot!
Butterpots of all shapes and colors suit sweet Krishna
These adorable butter pots are perfect for offerings, whether you add tiny foodstuffs, flowers or other things for sweet Krishna, they will give so much fun to your playtime.
There are multiple throne options which suit this beautiful Krsna – have a browse through Krishna’s Accessories category to see which one you like, as well as nice decorated cloths and cushions or swings.
Animal friends! What is sweeter than playing with Krishna and His friends?
After all, Krishna is never alone! Add more friends to your collection of Krishna toys.
Radharani and Rangini
peacock friend of Krishna
Darling Deer suits larger Krsna and Radha dolls
baby monkey from the front with big eyes cute ears and curling tail
There were a number of things that made this time wonderfully exciting for me, and I have SO MANY pictures I feel I could do at least 6 blog posts to cover them all! Only- I don’t think I will, so I might just tell you all about how KRISHNA CAME- CONQUERED – LEFT!
He first arrived to visit in January 2018, and due to a series of unexpected events (all of exciting nature – like, the Hawaiian floods, then volcanoes, then unexpected disappearances in the family, and great moves across the continent!) He ended up staying with me for 8 glorious months of dedicated sewing time, having Him RIGHT HERE for fittings, sitting at my table and available to be closely measured and doted on.
Instagram was full of my different WIP clothes for Krishna, and every weekend was a speed sewing fest. I think I’ve been too busy to focus on anything else! Actually, I lured my sister into leaving Krishna with me, when she dashed home in March, by promising 10 complete outfits with turbans, and not to do anything else until they were done! It was tricky, I had a few distractions, but I MADE IT! 10 beautiful outfits for Krsna, in 3 weeks. Ok maybe more like in 8 months, but by now I have capped the Krishna wardrobe collection, running on to more like… 16? I have to count!
We had a lot of fun naming the outfits creatively! This is His outfit list:
Lotus (definately one of the favorite outfits!)
Mango Lion;
this one was made thinking about Lord Nrsringadev, with more of a shako style turban for Krishna. It’s an interesting and functional outfit where you can remove that floaty orange silk overskirt, and style it more simply with just the vest, pants and shawl.
This outfit, such a hit! The purple is one of her favorite colors, and purple and gold = sensational. The Blue and the Purple are almost the same in style, with the puffy pant and the overskirt, top, topped with big turban.
They’re both super majestic and formal and a bit dancey.
One of my earlier efforts, before I went all out lavish after a bit more direction from my sister toward “mathura prince Krishna style”.
It’s still got that glorious dhoti, and the nice useful vest which will probably be great in the changing seasons weather, like the Autumn coolness or unpredictability of Spring.
Majestic Prince (the turban for this outfit is my sisters favorite turban – it’s also the biggest and most full on ornamented!)
Honestly I struggled a LOT with this outfit! I made the maroon velvet top, which I think veers towards luscious velvet bathrobe. And pairing it with YELLOW was such a hard choice but it’s so INDIAN I think, and super authentic. The Turban just kept getting bigger and bigger! Still, it’s one of my sisters favorites, she confided.
so cute, this coat is made from heavy braid, and topped with a soft silk shirt and a fair bit of braid. The braid was donated by MadyaLila from Ashraya! It’s the extra’s for one of her Ashraya outfits, so as she told me delightfully, she’s so happy to be twinning with Krishna!
Balaram Lustre outfit started out with this pristine white velvet, and the concept of a rolled side turban with that higher on one side Rajput Princely style element. It came out REALLY NICELY, I felt, but I did warm up all the white with some blue vest.
I’m particularly keen on the pearl drop elements at His beautiful waist.
This beautiful outfit has the best set of pants, they’re the final product after 4 attempts at pants, I think I finally made the best type for Him.
They are made from a blue shantung silk, and the outfit has a matching oriental green skirt, with a green silk fitted top. I have also paired it with a high waist belt, as you sometimes see in ancient Indian paintings and sculptures. LOVE IT!
Fresh forest flowers – this one is a rejected outfit… I made it, I like it, but it’s not been popular due to the large flowery print, and so it’s one I’m keeping here to model off SIZES. To me it’s very Rajput. And I love it.
I also have my absolute favorites on Soundcloud (I love soundcloud while I work!) The cool band Atmosphera is great for ambient music that makes me happy and I can still work really well to. Some amazing kirtans are just perfect crafting soundtrack but I get distracted and sing along, so they don’t go great with my day job.
Please read on where I am sharing the most beautiful spiritual wisdom talk shared by my own spiritual teacher, who has given us all this gift of transcendental knowledge.
Take heart; Remembering Krishna makes it possible to have actual life.
When you remember Krishna big mountains seem like very small hills you can easily cross.
When you’re not remembering Krishna even small hills look too hard.
When you remember Krishna you have courage facing difficulties & challenges.
When you forget Krishna even the smallest obstacles seem insurmountable, you experience frustration, anxiety, depression.
When you remember Krishna you experience hope.
We forget Krishna & experience hopelessness.
When we remember Krishna we experience purposefulness.
When we forget Krishna we experience life is without any purpose.
When we remember Krishna we are surcharged with spiritual strength.
When we forget Krishna we become spiritually weak.
When we forget Krishna we are like a blind person, we cant see which way to go or where to aim.
When We remember Krishna we can see very clearly what path to follow.
When We remember Krishna our hearts fill with love, appreciation & gratitude.
When we forget Krishna we have hate, anger, feeling resentful, jealousy.
When we remember Krishna we experience tolerance, patience, forgiveness.
When we forget Krishna forgiveness is beyond our reach. We cannot forgive those who offend us.
Simply by remembering Krishna we have life – with forgetfulness of Krishna we have darkness & death.
We should always remember Krishna, and organise our life so that we always remember Krishna.
Chant japa – japa is the private practice of chanting names of Krishna solitarily.
If we neglect to spend time everyday chanting our japa, if we take lightly this instruction from our Spiritual master and don’t spend time alone with Krishna chanting japa then our remembrance of Krishna is weakened.
Some disciples think they are so busy that they don’t have time. They think that they cannot put aside an hour of the morning to chant the names of Krishna.
This is a big mistake. There is no meaning to ‘service’ without remembrance of Krishna.
If we neglect to follow the our vow of spending time with Krishna then we are undermining or rejecting the relationship with our spiritual master and Krishna.
when we neglect this basic central instruction to chant japa by ourselves with Krishna focused on hearing th enames, the form and pastimes of Krishna then we are neglecting the most wonderful opportunity that has been given by Krishna to come into contact with His representative and receive His holy names.
First make sure to remember Krishna by spending time every day chanting japa. Every opportunity here and there through the day we can do more japa.
Hearing the names of Krishna, putting on a cd of Krishna chanting, listening to the names of Krishna and hearing pastimes of Krishna, the names and forms of Krishna & chanting in congregational kirtan.
Organise your life so you are engaged in Krishna.
We eat and drink throughout the day – we can offer that to Krishna.
Remembering Krishna.
We offer obeisances to our Spiritual Master by thanking him for filling our hearts with transcendental knowledge – the truth of my identity that I am part and parcel of Krishna. He is my dear-most friend.
Remember Krishna means remembering our relationship with Krishna, not philosophically but in tasting love for Krishna, in remembering our loving relationship with Krishna.
Transcendental knowledge and love for Krishna are one and the same.
The realization of transcendental knowledge means loving Krishna.
My dear Krishna, you are the heart of my heart, the life of my life, let me take shelter of you. Just rest your heart and mind in Krishna – this is rememberance of Krishna.
This remembrance of Krishna saves us from the greatest dangers, the darkest night.
In all situations just remember Krishna, this is the solution to all of lifes problems.
Just remember Krishna means love Krishna.
Love Krishna and remember Krishna is one and the same. Please chant the names of Krishna
Any errors are due to my own note-taking & poor memory, and I beg you will forgive me for them.
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