Sugar Skull

31 × 37 · 1,147 stitches · 8 colors · by NaredCraft

Tapestry crochet chart: Sugar Skull

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About this pattern

A calavera de azucar with flowers in the eye sockets and a decorated band across the forehead, the teeth one band with dividers and the nose the small inverted heart the tradition uses. Eight colors on a pale marigold, worked flat in single crochet with no shaping and no isolated stitches. Finishes around 19 by 23 cm (7.5 by 9 in), for a Dia de Muertos wall or a cushion.

  • Eight-color symbol chart, readable even printed in black and white
  • Written row-by-row pattern with color runs and RS/WS sides
  • Yarn legend with stitch counts for each color
  • Printable PDF, US Letter

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Written pattern

31 stitches wide and 37 rows tall, 1,147 stitches in 8 colors.

Yarn

SymbolColorStitchesShare
X Off-white #F6E8CF 552 48%
O Black #241C1A 196 17%
+ White #FBF8F2 248 22%
* Cream #DCD3C4 40 3%
/ Mustard (dark shade) #F5943A 15 1%
\ Pink #E8548E 56 5%
= Mustard (light shade) #F7CE45 10 1%
# Teal #2FA8A0 30 3%

Any yarn works as long as every color is the same weight. The names describe the shade, they are not a specific brand.

How to read it

Work flat in single crochet, from the bottom of the chart up. Chain 32 and work row 1 into the chain, starting in the second chain from the hook.

Row 1 is a right side (RS) row, worked from right to left. Turn, and row 2 is a wrong side (WS) row, worked from left to right. Keep alternating to the top.

Each entry is a run of one color: "12 X" means 12 single crochet in the color marked X. Carry the colors you are not using along the top of the row and crochet over them, and switch to the new color on the last yarn over of the stitch before it, so every stitch comes out clean.

Row by row

  1. Row 1 RS, right to left 31 X
  2. Row 2 WS, left to right 31 X
  3. Row 3 RS, right to left 31 X
  4. Row 4 WS, left to right 12 X7 O12 X
  5. Row 5 RS, right to left 10 X3 O2 +1 O2 +3 O10 X
  6. Row 6 WS, left to right 9 X1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O9 X
  7. Row 7 RS, right to left 9 X1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O9 X
  8. Row 8 WS, left to right 9 X1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O9 X
  9. Row 9 RS, right to left 9 X1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O9 X
  10. Row 10 WS, left to right 9 X1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O2 +1 O9 X
  11. Row 11 RS, right to left 9 X13 O9 X
  12. Row 12 WS, left to right 8 X1 O1 *11 +1 *1 O8 X
  13. Row 13 RS, right to left 8 X1 O1 *5 +1 O5 +1 *1 O8 X
  14. Row 14 WS, left to right 7 X1 O2 /4 +3 O4 +2 /1 O7 X
  15. Row 15 RS, right to left 6 X1 O1 *2 /3 +5 O3 +2 /1 *1 O6 X
  16. Row 16 WS, left to right 5 X1 O1 *6 +2 O1 +2 O6 +1 *1 O5 X
  17. Row 17 RS, right to left 4 X1 O1 *19 +1 *1 O4 X
  18. Row 18 WS, left to right 4 X1 O1 *1 +5 O7 +5 O1 +1 *1 O4 X
  19. Row 19 RS, right to left 3 X1 O1 *1 +2 O3 \2 O5 +2 O3 \2 O1 +1 *1 O3 X
  20. Row 20 WS, left to right 3 X1 O1 *3 O3 \3 O3 +3 O3 \3 O1 *1 O3 X
  21. Row 21 RS, right to left 3 X1 O1 *1 O3 \1 =3 \1 O3 +1 O3 \1 =3 \1 O1 *1 O3 X
  22. Row 22 WS, left to right 3 X1 O1 *1 O2 \3 =2 \1 O3 +1 O2 \3 =2 \1 O1 *1 O3 X
  23. Row 23 RS, right to left 3 X1 O1 *1 O3 \1 =3 \1 O3 +1 O3 \1 =3 \1 O1 *1 O3 X
  24. Row 24 WS, left to right 3 X1 O1 *3 O3 \3 O3 +3 O3 \3 O1 *1 O3 X
  25. Row 25 RS, right to left 3 X1 O1 *1 +2 O3 \2 O5 +2 O3 \2 O1 +1 *1 O3 X
  26. Row 26 WS, left to right 3 X1 O1 *2 +5 O7 +5 O2 +1 *1 O3 X
  27. Row 27 RS, right to left 3 X1 O1 *21 +1 *1 O3 X
  28. Row 28 WS, left to right 3 X1 O1 *21 +1 *1 O3 X
  29. Row 29 RS, right to left 4 X1 O1 *1 +17 #1 +1 *1 O4 X
  30. Row 30 WS, left to right 4 X1 O1 *3 +2 /3 +3 /3 +2 /3 +1 *1 O4 X
  31. Row 31 RS, right to left 5 X1 O1 *2 +13 #2 +1 *1 O5 X
  32. Row 32 WS, left to right 6 X1 O1 *15 +1 *1 O6 X
  33. Row 33 RS, right to left 7 X2 O13 +2 O7 X
  34. Row 34 WS, left to right 9 X13 O9 X
  35. Row 35 RS, right to left 31 X
  36. Row 36 WS, left to right 31 X
  37. Row 37 RS, right to left 31 X

Counting 37 rows by hand? RoundCraft keeps your place stitch by stitch.

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