A Crochet House Spider. A Free Pattern for Hallowe’en.

A Quick Crochet Spider Pattern

I’m a little early, but I couldn’t wait to get stuck into some Halloween crochet! Wahaha. This crochet spirder pattern is so speedy, it really only takes a few minutes. You could make an army of crochet spiders, it’d be brilliant!

These guys are so much better than real spiders, which interfere with your telly watching (out of the corner of your eye, there they are stomping across your sofa, on their way to eat your face whilst you innocently watch Bake Off).

I’m a little disappointed that this spider pattern didn’t become part of last year’s amigurumi Halloween collection but I hadn’t thought of it when I designed that lot. This pattern is a great partner to all the other spooky creations from that collection, though…

[Edit: New for the summer of 2017 is a YouTube tutorial for a crochet spider!! If you’d rather watch me make this spider on film, then pop over and take a look! Thanks]

What You’ll Need to Make Your Own Crochet Spiders

• 3.5mm hook (you could go up or down a hook size if you want),
• DK acrylic yarn – small amounts for these 8-legged critters.
• Darning needle.
• For the eyes, you’ll need some sewing thread,
• A sewing needle
• Little beads.

Crochet House Spider Pattern

I’ve written the crochet pattern in US terms; that’s what I’m used to with amigurumi.
An increase means working 2 stitches into the same stitch.
A decrease is working 2 stitches together so they become one stitch.

1. 6 into a magic ring [6 sts]
2. Increase around [12]
3. Sc around [12]
4. Decrease around [6]

Fasten off, leaving a tail of about 50cm. Stitch the hole closed with a darning needle, looping through the 6 front loops. Pull closed and secure. Do not cut yarn; you’ll need it for sewing on the legs.

Choose where you want your head to be. With a slip knot on your hook, attach the yarn with a slip stitch to the body. I put my hook on/behind Round 3. The pictures above are two different angles of the same thing. It’s just demonstrating where I’ve put my hook and where I’ll be making the slip stitch.

A Puff Stitch Head

To get a nice plump spider head, you need a puff stitch!

[yrh, insert hook into st, yrh and pull up yarn] four times, yrh, draw through all 9 loops on hook, chain 1 and join back to the body with a slip stitch in the same place. Fasten off and sew in the head ends.

Mr Skinny Legs

Make four chains for legs: 1: ch18, 2. ch20, 3: ch22, 4: ch24.

Before you snip them short, pull the legs really tight to make sure the knots won’t become undone. This is why it’s best to use acrylic yarn; it’s less likely to break off when you pull.

Using the tail from before, thread through the middles of all the spider’s legs and stitch to the underside of the body. Shortest legs nearest the head.

Stitching the legs on is really simple. When they’re secure, thread the yarn out through the spider’s bottom.

Pass the yarn through the ends of the two back legs.

A Crochet Spider Completed

There is now a spider… where there wasn’t one before!

Adding Little Spidery Eyes

Little beads make great spider eyes. I went in from underneath with the thread, going in and out a couple of times to make sure it wasn’t going to go anywhere.

This sparkly, woolly arachnid has too many eyes for a real spider, but I wasn’t really concentrating. Most spiders have eight eyes if you want to go for accuracy!

And it’s as easy as that! A happy Hallowe’en house spider!

This is a free crochet pattern that has been designed by me (Zeens and Roger). Please don’t sell the pattern or finished product. They’re all mine! Tis personal use only. Thanks very much. X

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