Dia de los Muertos – The Guy with a hook

Another CAL from The Guy with the hook, who also published Spice Market:

This CAL began in October with parts released each Sunday, to finish for Halloween / All Souls / Day of the Dead. I picked bright colours in Stylecraft Special DK – lots to choose from – I love these – different to what I would normally use!

This was another really enjoyable CAL. There were some mistakes in a few rows, but easy enough to work out what it should be, and the Facebook group was good to share the corrections. I made a few more mistakes of my own (sorry – individual design features!!).

I didn’t take photos after Part 3 which was attaching the skulls and all the black behind!

Some people had decorated skulls before attaching, but I think they needed the embroidery to flatten them to the black background (mine were sagging a bit!).

Paul made me the hoop, to size, from copper tube. I had never crocheted a mandala to a hoop before. It was fiddly, but simple. I did a double crochet in each 2 chain space of the border, chained 8 around the hoop, and then back to a double crochet in the next 2 chain space. The wool gets wrapped around the hoop and needs unwinding quite frequently.

This is now hung on the wall in the conservatory – lovely and bright.