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 spider pattern is so speedy, it really only takes a few minutes to make. 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 crochet 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 cute spider 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 sewing on legs.
- Little beads for spidery eyes.
- For the eyes, you’ll also need some sewing thread and a needle.
Crochet House Spider Pattern
- This crochet pattern is written in US terms; that’s what I’m used to with amigurumi.
- Note that an increase means working 2 single crochet stitches into the same stitch.
- A decrease is working 2 stitches together so they become one stitch.
Crochet The Spider Body
- 6 into a magic ring. [6 sts]
- Increase around. [12]
- Sc around. [12]
- Decrease around. [6]
Fasten off, leaving a tail of about 50cm / 20 inches.
Stitch the hole closed with a darning needle, looping through the 6 front loops. Pull closed and secure.
Do not cut the yarn; you’ll need it for sewing on the legs.
Add The Spider’s Head
Choose where you want your head to be.
With a slip knot already 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 demonstrates where I’ve inserted 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! Here is how you crochet a puff stitch so that your spider has its little head:
yrh = yarn round hook.
[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
This crochet spider pattern is very small and quite life-size. That means it needs some lovely long legs for skipping about in the corners of your home. It’s very easy to do. Mr Skinny Leg’s legs are made out of crochet chains. (I don’t know why he has a name all of a sudden!)
Make four chains for legs:
1: ch19.
2. ch21.
3: ch23.
4: ch25.
Before you snip each chain length short, pull the legs really tight to make sure the knots won’t come undone. Acrylic yarn is great for this; it’s less likely to break off when you pull.
Using the tail that’s still attached to the body of Mr Skinny Legs, thread it through the middles of all the spider’s legs and stitch to the underside of the body. Shortest legs go nearest the head.
Stitching the spider’s 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! It’s surely going to be one of the quickest crochet projects you’ll ever make!
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!
If you have enjoyed making this little crochet spider, take a look at some of my other free crochet patterns.
Aw, he’s great! Am gonna have to go and check out your other Halloween stuff now too x
Thanks very much! I expect I’ll need to write another Hallowe’en post nearer the time too!!
Very cool, from one spider maker to the other.
Thanks very much! 🙂
He’s so cute! Thanks so much for the pattern. 😉
Glad you like him!
Yep, I’m gonna make one of these to scare the kids with!!
Yay! I hope it does the job!! 😀
Nice! I bet your house will be overrun with these by the time Hallowe’en rolls around… What a fun make! 🎃
Cheers. I’ve only got the grey one here. There are probably loads of real ones though…
Hahaha! Same here… I appreciate the good fly-munching work that spiders do, so I can never bring myself to kill them!
My insect obsessed son would love this!
Love it!! Thank you so much!!
Thank you too! 🙂
Your Spider if perfect for my spider web afghan I am crocheting this 2017 Halloween season. Thank you for this cute adorable little gray house spider! she is perfect!
Excellent! Please let me know how it goes, I’d love to see the finished article! 😀
Awesome pattern ….anyone left handed that can do a left handed version.. i can never get the patterns correct when shown via right-handed
Sorry, I don’t have a left handed tutorial or video for the spider. It’s something I need to think about for the future though.
Thanks.
I just made two of these, minus the eyes- I don’t have any beads on hand, and I love them!! I’m crocheting some webs for them now. Thank you for sharing!!