Description

Sugar Skull pattern by Rope and Anchor, helps you make a more quirky quilt. With this 52” x 64” inch striking Sugar Skull design. Follow these instructions complete with pattern illustrations, to make a perfect confident beginner quilt.

As with all these patterns the colour choice is down to you. Why not change some of the colours to gold, silver, burnt orange and more.

Sugar Skulls are a phenomenon in Mexico and Latin America. They have spread throughout the world with the international travels of Spanish-speaking people as they move around the world.

A Calavera, which, is pronounced Kala Bera, is Spanish for skull. This representation of a human skull and is used in the Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations in November each year. Whilst in days gone by, legend has it that the original skulls of the departed were decorated. Today, it is most often applied to edible or decorative skulls made by hand from either sugar or clay.

Many people associate the Day of the Dead celebrations and Sugar Skulls with Mexico. Alternatively, the Roman Catholic holiday All Souls’ Day is also linked to Sugar Skulls.