Day of the Dead T-Shirt

Hello everyone! My name is Dulce. Growing up in a Mexican household I remember the orange flowers the colorful decorations, sugar skulls, el pan de muerto, and so much more.   

Día de los Muertos, despite the fact that It revolves around those who have passed on from this world, was never a time be a sad time. On the contrary it was the time year that we could re-unite with family and friends that no longer walked beside us, but were still with us.   

So in honor of this holiday, I decided  to create a small cross stitch project. 

Here we go! 

 

Materials: 

• Gold Eye Embroidery Needles – Art. No 235
• Clover Embroidery Hoop 4 ¾ in. – Art. No 8813 
• Desk Needle Threader – Art. No 4072
• Waste Canvas 
• Thread Colors: Green-Red-Pink-Purple-Black-White-Yellow 
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Tip: When it comes to the yellow I only needed it on two spots so I did them last.  

Make sure you keep count on numbers of blocks.  

  

Step One: Download Stitch Guide Sugar Skull-01

 

Step Two: Cut out waste canvas. Using your hoop place the waste canvas onto the shirt where you will like your design to be. Pace the inner ring inside the shirt, and the outer ring outside the shirt.  

 

Step Three: Start by working from right to left. Working with your green thread. This will help you shape the top of you skull as well as give you an idea of where you are at in the design.  

Step four: once the top of the skull design has been added, move on the eyebrows. Stich from right to left the back left to right to finish the cross stitch.  

Step Five: When making the eyes, I worked with the pink thread first to create the outline, once the outer parts of the eyes were created, I went back in with the black thread and filled in the inside of the eyes.  

Step six: Keep counting the spaces from the guide to help you understand where your stiches will be going next. Once you finished creating the skeleton of the sugar skull, you’re going to go in and fill it with your white thread.  

 

Final step: once you’re finished, take the hoop off and cut around the waste canvas. Make sure not to cut the shirts fabric. This will make it easier to pull out the waste canvas. Once you finish pulling out your waste canvas. Your shirt is ready to go!