I didn’t grow up in the most culturally diverse area of the world, so I had never heard of the Day of the Dead, or seen any of the cool imagery that comes with it, until 8th grade Spanish class.
A great way to celebrate today – or any day! – is with a cute Sugar Skull mini-quilt from BadBaby Quilts.
I can’t decide which one I like best, so here’s a photo of a bunch of them. Don’t they make you feel alive?
Celebrating life with pictures of skeletons: so crazy, it works!
The brilliantly talented Stephanie over at make it… a wonderful life calls this the Trick Or Treat quilt:
and it strikes me as just about the perfect fall quilt. Aren’t the nine-patch/flying geese houses the coziest blocks you’ve ever seen? Such a wonderful way to show off fall fabrics. I can also see this looking equally cute in springy florals or holiday reds and greens, and versatility, to me, is one of the marks of a really great block.
Stephanie also deserves serious accolades for her scrappy borders. I think we all understand the impulse to rush through this part of the process – between the block-making and the quilting itself. But to me, these details are what makes this quilt extra-special.
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