Spider Web Table Topper
Looking for easy ways to decorate your home for Halloween? This Spider Web Table Topper is sure to be a hit around the house and with all your guests. It's such a simple homemade Halloween decoration, but it's one that can be used over and over and will never get old. You could make multiples in black, orange, yellow, etc. to cover multiple areas of the kitchen or dining area if you're feeling so inclined. Either way, you'll have a spooky and festive means of adding some color to your house this Halloween.
Crochet HookI/9 or 5.5 mm hook
Yarn Weight(4) Medium Weight/Worsted Weight and Aran (16-20 stitches to 4 inches)
Crochet Gauge15 ch sts = 4 (10 cm). First 2 rounds = 6 (15 cm) in diameter
Finished SizeTable Topper measures 54 (137 cm) in diameter
Materials List
- RED HEART Super Saver: 1 skein of 254 Pumpkin
- Susan Bates Crochet Hook: 5.5mm [US I-9]
- Yarn needle
- Stitch markers
Notes
Special Abbreviations Picot: Ch 3, slip st in 3rd ch from hook
Table Topper
Ch 4; join with a slip st in first ch to form ring.
Round 1 (right side): *Ch 4, place marker (pm), ch 3, pm, ch 4, slip st in ring; repeat from * 5 times; join with a slip st in first ch 6 large loops.
Round 2: Slip st in each ch to next marked ch, *ch 5, pm, ch 6, pm, ch 5, slip st in next marked st, ch 2, slip st in next marked st on next large loop; repeat from * around.
Round 3: Slip st in each ch to next marked ch, *ch 6, pm, ch 10, pm, ch 6, slip st in next marked st, ch 5, slip st in next marked st on next large loop; repeat from * around.
Round 4: Slip st in each ch to next marked ch, *ch 7, pm, ch 14, pm, ch 7, slip st in next marked st, ch 9, slip st in next marked st on next large loop; repeat from * around.
Round 5: Slip st in each ch to next marked ch, *ch 8, pm, ch 19, pm, ch 8, slip st in next marked st, ch 13, slip st in next marked st on next large loop; repeat from * around.
Round 6: Slip st in each ch to next marked ch, *ch 9, pm, ch 25, pm, ch 9, slip st in next marked st, ch 18, slip st in next marked st on next large loop; repeat from * around.
Round 7: Slip st in each ch to next marked ch, *ch 10, pm, ch 30, pm, ch 10, slip st in next marked st, ch 24, slip st in next marked st on next large loop; repeat from * around.
Round 8: Slip st in each ch to next marked ch, *ch 11, pm, ch 36, pm, ch 11, slip st in next marked st, ch 29, slip st in next marked st; repeat from * around.
Round 9: Slip st in each ch to next marked ch, *ch 12, pm, ch 42, pm, ch 12, slip st in next marked st, ch35, slip st in next marked st on next large loop; repeat from * around.
Round 10: Slip st in each ch to next marked ch, *ch 13, pm, ch 42, pm, ch 13, slip st in next marked st, ch 41, slip st in next marked st on next large loop; repeat from * around.
Round 11: Ch 1 (does not count as first st), pm, *slip st in each of next 42 ch, ending at next marker, *ch 42, slip st in ch after next marked st on next loop, slip st in each of next 41 ch, ending at next marker; repeat from * 4 times, ch 42; join with a slip st in first slip st 504 sts; 6 sets of 42 slip sts; 6 ch-42 loops)
Round 12: Ch 5 (counts as dc, ch 2), skip next 2 sts, *dc in next st, ch 2, skip next 2 sts; repeat from * around; join with slip st in 3rd ch of beginning ch-5 168 ch-2 spaces.
Round 13: Slip st in first ch-2 space, ch 3 (counts as first dc), 2 dc in same ch-2 space, 3 dc in each ch-2 space around 504 dc.
Round 14: *Ch 3, skip next 3 dc, (tr, picot, tr) in space before next dc, ch 3, skip next 3 dc, slip st in space before next dc; repeat from * around. Fasten off.
Finishing
Weave in ends.