Bring folk-art elegance to your stitching with this Day of the Dead design, where a decorative sugar skull is paired with a bird and framed by flowers, leaves, vines and neat symmetrical scrollwork. The mix of pink, purple, red, orange, yellow, green, blue and teal gives it the vivid painted look of traditional sugar-skull art, while the balanced layout keeps it refined rather than busy. It suits anyone who wants Halloween or Día de los Muertos projects to feel colourful and ornate, with a softer, more artistic look.
Because the stitching is open and lightly worked, it sits well on garments and homewares that benefit from detail without too much bulk, such as denim jackets, black sweatshirts, cotton tote bags or cushion covers. The ten-thread palette gives you plenty of colour variation in the flowers and facial ornaments, so the design reads clearly even from a distance. With twelve size options, it can work as a smaller accent on a sleeve or pocket area, or as a fuller centrepiece on the back of a jacket or the front of a bag.
