Dear friends,
It has been a fun year working with all of you! And I look forward to another brand new creative working year ahead.
This dotted 2011 rangoli has 15 dots in five rows at the center. And the number of dots decreases to 13, 11, 9, 7, 5 on either ends (right and left sides). Here's to new beginnings, a new 2011! Have a happy and a prosperous New Year.
-Lata & Mani
Here is an animated circular dotted kolam that I'm uploading after a long time. It has 17 dots at the center line followed by 15, and then it varies. Hope you enjoy it. 
This is a nagabandha rangoli. I've shown an easier way to draw one form of nagabandha. The steps can be seen when you click on play.
This is the palanquin kolam that I had mentioned, in my last "lamp" kolam. This uses 7 to 2 dots (parallel style). The palanquin handle is the only additional fixture drawn at the top, that is different in this design (when compared with the lamp version). This uses one stroke. I had also seen this design in the kolam book that Mr.Rao had uploaded a while back. There are 3 more that I had done, but do want to group here since this uses a 7 by 2 grid (and so chose to keep this separate). Palanquins remind me of brides and royal princesses, and that explains my choice of color for the base. Hope you enjoy this as much as I do.
A dotted lamp kolam. Dot count: 7 at the center, leading upto two at both ends. Used my last batch of rangoli powder that I brought from India. I'll have to switch to making with rice paste or chalk in a few days.
I got interested in making this chikku kolam, after I had read the comments from Jayanthi's kolam (http://www.ikolam.com/node/14107). In order to show the design without any borders/frills, I have drawn the strokes and omitted the central netted square filler that we see in Jayanthi's design. I'm hoping Dawn would find this easy.
This is a mirror design dotted kolam. There is an outer frame and an inner frame. The dot count varies for the inner frame and the outer ones. The kolam has interlaced dot style, and is one of my favorite mirror designs. The bird beaks at the ends could be replaced by snakes tongue, if one wants. Clicking on the blue button shows you how to draw.
