Day of The Dead Skulls Mosaic Crochet PAttern By Hookanory
Part 6 of the Halloween Mosaic Blanket CAL
A Little Bit About This Design
This pattern was designed as part of the Halloween Mosaic Crochet Blanket CAL hosted by Jamie Morris from Remington Lane Crochet.
Scroll down to find out more about the FREE Halloween CAL and to grab your Free Day Of The Dead Skulls chart!
I wanted to design a strip that would fit with the Halloween theme, but would be a little different. As a former art teacher I am really interested in the arts, and textiles of other cultures and have always been fascinated by the Latin American celebration of The Day Of The Dead (Dia De Los Muertos), so it was an obvious choice for inspiration! This festival, most commonly associated with Mexico celebrates, honours and remembers the lives of loved ones who have passed over, believing they return to the world of the living on that night to visit their families. It is a joyful celebration involving, sharing food, stories and offerings both with the living and the dead, featuring sugar skull sweets, marigold flowers and in more recent times, parades of papier mache puppets of skeletons. I love the idea that the events focus on celebration rather than sadness. If you want to find out more about The Day Of The Dead HERE!
Much love & Spooky Hooking!
Deb xxx
Welcome to the Halloween Mosaic Blanket Crochet-Along! Whether you love spooky season for the costumes, the candy, or just the cozy vibes of October evenings, this CAL is the perfect way to get into the spirit.
This collaborative CAL is hosted by Remington Lane Crochet and features 12 other crochet designers who each designed a different section of the blanket. Each section builds onto the next, resulting in on huge, cozy and festive blanket!
This blanket is designed to get you ready for spooky season, ending with a festive and cozy blanket you can enjoy for Halloween, and pull out year after year! Grab your favorite fall yarn colors, your hook, and get ready to join a community of crocheters who are just as excited about Halloween as you are!
How the Crochet Along Works
The Halloween Mosaic Blanket Crochet-Along is going to run for 7 weeks, September 8-October 23, 2025. New sections of the blanket will be released on Mondays and Thursdays each week. I will be your hostess, so come back to this page to find the details on the featured section.
The blanket sections will be available beginning at 8:00 AM US Eastern Time (ET) on their featured day, and live on a different designer’s blog. Each designer will host the pattern chart on their blog, which will be viewable for free. No coupon codes or downloads are required to access the pattern chart.
Here are the steps to participate:
- Visit this page – the CAL hub page – every Monday and Thursday beginning September 8th
- Scroll to find that day’s featured section.
- Click the VISIT THE PATTERN button on this page to be taken to the designer’s pattern on their blog
- Once on the designer’s website, look for the pattern chart
- Enjoy crocheting that new section of your blanket!
YOUR FREE DAY OF THE DEAD MOSAIC CHART
Day of The Dead Skulls Mosaic Crochet Pattern By Hookanory
This is the FREE version of my pattern chart, if you want a downloadable copy you can get a FREE PDF version by signing up to my newsletter via the form below, or you can purchase the full E-Book version of the whole blanket complete with written instructions HERE!
Chart is worked from the bottom up, starting in the bottom right hand corner and working individual rows always from right to left on the right side only.
This pattern is a 30 row overlay mosaic chart, with 48 stitch repeat (plus 3st = 1 buffer stitch and 1 start and end of row stitch) So if you want to make a 3 motif repeat which fits a standard single blanket width, your starting chain stitch count will be 49 x 3 = 147 plus 2 = 149 plus 1st turning chain = ch 150
Need Help Using Mosaic charts?
Do you struggle with how to work out the repeats for a project from Mosaic crochet charts? Do you wish you could combine motifs and create your own bespoke blanket from patterns you have already purchased? Then you need the ‘Making it Bigger’ cheat sheet from Elimee Designs! This super handy guide walks you though enlarging and combining designs to fit your own custom requirements, and comes with tube video tutorial links and the FREE Adamare Diamonds Pattern graph to get you started! Grab your copy HERE!
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