Dia de los Muertos Skirt

Just in time to wear before summer ends, I finished my Dia de los Muertos skirt. The pattern is an arrangement of pattern pieces from the book Embroidered Effects by Jenny Hart.

The skirt is made up of four panels, the design goes the whole way around the edge. This is the first thing I’ve made for myself since I started embroidering and it was almost like four projects in one.

I used DMC thread, here are the colors…

• #160 (light purple)
• #915 (deep pink)
• #728 (yellow)
• #470 (green)
• #3834 (purple)
• #3809 (teal)

For the flower stem I was attempting to do a feather stitch, but I didn’t bother to read about it before starting. So I ended up with a kind of stemmed feather stitch which I actually quite like.