Hey there, my crafty sewing friends. It’s Ingrid here again from www.joejuneandmae.com.
And I’m taking you to the beautiful, colorful and vibrant celebrations of Dia de los Muertos with this stunning
Mini-quilt.
Have you seen this new fabric series by Kathy Cano-Murillo better known as @craftychica? It features the brightest
colors and the most beautiful sugar skull drawings as well as all sorts of Dia de los Muertos sketches. There are lots
tonal fabrics with sacred hearts in purple, red and the sunniest yellow.
I really have a weak spot for everything Mexican and especially Dia de los Muertos.
So I knew I had to design a pattern for this fantastic fabric series.
A stunning quilt block pattern, that you can easily turn into a Mini quilt for a Dia de los Muertos home decor.
It’s a colorful Mini quilt, that features one large quilt block, either 16″x 16″ or 24″x 24″ with a row of 2,5″ squares as
a border. And I added a multi colored binding, to make it even more fun.
I love these squared up borders, since they give you so many options to showcase the prints. This works especially
well for this fabric series. It was really hard to decide which sugar skull of the fabrics to choose, since they’re all so
pretty. I was in fussy cutting heaven.
I designed this Calavera Catrina especially with this fabric series in mind. What do you think?
Is she an elegant Lady indeed?
I made the 16″x 16″ Calavera Catrina in this photo, since I wanted to use all fat quarters for this pattern.
The pattern also features the size 24″x 24″.
La Calavera Catrina was first drawn, or better yet it was a zink etching by the Mexican printmaker, cartoon
illustrator and lithographer José Guadalupe Posada. And has since become an icon for the Mexican Dia de los
Muertos. But it was Diego Rivera (yes, that’s Frida Kahlo’s husband) who made La Catrina popular in his mural
which he completed 1947 Sueño de una Tarde Dominical en la Alameda Central
(Dream of a Sunday afternoon along Central Alameda).
“La Catrina has become the referential image of Death in Mexico, it is common to see her embodied as part of the celebrations of Day of the Dead throughout the country; she has become a motive for the creation of handcrafts made from clay or other materials, her representations may vary, as well as the hat.”
J.G. Posada
sugar skull print 
amor eterno
Now I can’t wait for you to show me your La Calavera Catrina, what background fabric would you choose, and what
prints will you use for your fussy cutting?
Here are my other Dia de los Muertos patterns, maybe you want to expand this Mini-quilt and create
something bigger or totally different, these fabrics are perfect for these patterns.
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Happy sewing
Ingrid x