Free patterns

A square purple pillow with a pixel spider hanging from a cream web, with round cream eyes and a small smile.

Free Halloween pattern

Spider tapestry crochet pillow

64 × 74 stitches, 5 yarns, single crochet. Fits a 16 in (40 cm) pillow insert when your gauge is 4 stitches per inch.

Download the chart

About 7 pages to print

Save to Pinterest

A round, dark spider hangs from a single thread beneath a cream web that fills the top half of a purple Halloween pillow. It has big eyes, a small smile and two orange cheeks, which take only four stitches between them. You begin at the bottom with the legs, eight of them stepping out one stitch at a time, and the web comes last, once you have found your rhythm. In the web, cream lines one stitch wide shift sideways from row to row, so you alternate short runs of cream and purple across the top, while the purple background gives you long, easy stretches.

The chart

The spider pillow chart: 64 stitches by 74 rows in 5 yarns, with row and stitch numbers
  • Purple 3620 stitches
  • Graphite 573 stitches
  • Cream 510 stitches
  • Gray 29 stitches
  • Orange 4 stitches

Other sizes

Your gaugeFront panel size
14 stitches in 4 in (10 cm)18.3 × 18.4 in (46.4 × 46.7 cm)
16 stitches in 4 in (10 cm) (this pattern)16 × 16.1 in (40.6 × 40.9 cm)
18 stitches in 4 in (10 cm)14.2 × 14.3 in (36.1 × 36.3 cm)
20 stitches in 4 in (10 cm)12.8 × 12.9 in (32.5 × 32.7 cm)

Working at a different gauge? Enter it in the size calculator with 64 stitches and 74 rows.

How to make it

Yarn and hook

Start with worsted weight yarn (medium, 4) and a 4 mm (US G-6) or 4.5 mm (US 7) hook. A hook one or two sizes smaller than the yarn label suggests makes a denser fabric that hides the carried strands. Swatch in two colors and measure: if you get more than 4 stitches per inch, go up a hook size; if you get fewer, go down.

Reading the chart

Each box in the chart is one single crochet stitch. The boxes are drawn a little wider than they are tall, so the chart matches the pillow's proportions. For a 16-inch (40 cm) square, aim for 16 stitches and about 18.5 rows in 4 inches (10 cm).

  • Row 1 is at the bottom.
  • Read odd rows (right side) from right to left and even rows (wrong side) from left to right.
  • Row numbers sit on the side where that row starts; stitch numbers count from the right.
  • Left-handed? Read every row the other way, on the chart and in the rows written out, and the picture still comes out as charted.

New to charts? How to read a tapestry crochet chart shows which way each row goes on a small sailboat.

Chain 65 in the first color for row 1. Starting in the second chain from the hook, work row 1 for a total of 64 stitches. Chain 1 and turn between rows. In the rows written out, each row's colors are listed in the order you work them.

Carrying the colors

Lay the unused colors along the top of the row below and crochet over them, so they ride inside the stitches. Change color on the final pull-through of the stitch before the new color begins: with two loops on the hook, pull the new color through both. Keep the carried strands relaxed so the fabric does not pucker. When you will not use a color for several rows, cut it, leave a tail, and join it again where it next appears.

The back

Crochet a second panel of 64 stitches by 74 rows in one color, and check it against the front: plain single crochet can come out a different size, so change the hook or the number of rows until the two match. Or sew on a fabric back cut to the front's size plus seam allowance; for an envelope back, use two hemmed pieces that overlap.

Assembling the pillow

Weave in the tails, then gently block the front to 16 inches (40 cm) square, following the care instructions on the yarn label. Put the panels wrong sides together and join three sides with single crochet or whip stitch through both edges. Push in a 16-inch (40 cm) pillow insert (a cushion pad in the UK) and close the fourth side the same way.

The rows written out

Show all 74 rows
  1. Row 1 (RS): 17 Purple, 2 Graphite, 26 Purple, 2 Graphite, 17 Purple
  2. Row 2 (WS): 17 Purple, 2 Graphite, 26 Purple, 2 Graphite, 17 Purple
  3. Row 3 (RS): 17 Purple, 2 Graphite, 26 Purple, 2 Graphite, 17 Purple
  4. Row 4 (WS): 17 Purple, 3 Graphite, 24 Purple, 2 Graphite, 18 Purple
  5. Row 5 (RS): 18 Purple, 2 Graphite, 24 Purple, 2 Graphite, 18 Purple
  6. Row 6 (WS): 18 Purple, 2 Graphite, 24 Purple, 2 Graphite, 18 Purple
  7. Row 7 (RS): 18 Purple, 3 Graphite, 22 Purple, 3 Graphite, 18 Purple
  8. Row 8 (WS): 9 Purple, 2 Graphite, 8 Purple, 2 Graphite, 22 Purple, 2 Graphite, 8 Purple, 2 Graphite, 9 Purple
  9. Row 9 (RS): 9 Purple, 2 Graphite, 8 Purple, 3 Graphite, 20 Purple, 3 Graphite, 8 Purple, 2 Graphite, 9 Purple
  10. Row 10 (WS): 9 Purple, 3 Graphite, 7 Purple, 4 Graphite, 18 Purple, 4 Graphite, 7 Purple, 3 Graphite, 9 Purple
  11. Row 11 (RS): 10 Purple, 2 Graphite, 9 Purple, 3 Graphite, 5 Purple, 5 Graphite, 6 Purple, 4 Graphite, 8 Purple, 2 Graphite, 10 Purple
  12. Row 12 (WS): 10 Purple, 3 Graphite, 8 Purple, 4 Graphite, 3 Purple, 9 Graphite, 2 Purple, 3 Graphite, 9 Purple, 3 Graphite, 10 Purple
  13. Row 13 (RS): 11 Purple, 2 Graphite, 10 Purple, 18 Graphite, 10 Purple, 2 Graphite, 11 Purple
  14. Row 14 (WS): 11 Purple, 3 Graphite, 10 Purple, 16 Graphite, 10 Purple, 3 Graphite, 11 Purple
  15. Row 15 (RS): 12 Purple, 2 Graphite, 10 Purple, 15 Graphite, 1 Gray, 10 Purple, 2 Graphite, 12 Purple
  16. Row 16 (WS): 12 Purple, 4 Graphite, 8 Purple, 17 Graphite, 7 Purple, 4 Graphite, 12 Purple
  17. Row 17 (RS): 13 Purple, 8 Graphite, 2 Purple, 7 Graphite, 4 Cream, 6 Graphite, 1 Gray, 2 Purple, 8 Graphite, 13 Purple
  18. Row 18 (WS): 13 Purple, 10 Graphite, 2 Orange, 4 Graphite, 1 Cream, 4 Graphite, 1 Cream, 4 Graphite, 2 Orange, 10 Graphite, 13 Purple
  19. Row 19 (RS): 19 Purple, 22 Graphite, 1 Gray, 4 Graphite, 18 Purple
  20. Row 20 (WS): 7 Purple, 2 Graphite, 13 Purple, 1 Gray, 19 Graphite, 13 Purple, 2 Graphite, 7 Purple
  21. Row 21 (RS): 7 Purple, 3 Graphite, 12 Purple, 3 Graphite, 4 Cream, 6 Graphite, 4 Cream, 2 Graphite, 1 Gray, 12 Purple, 3 Graphite, 7 Purple
  22. Row 22 (WS): 8 Purple, 3 Graphite, 11 Purple, 1 Gray, 1 Graphite, 6 Cream, 4 Graphite, 6 Cream, 2 Graphite, 11 Purple, 3 Graphite, 8 Purple
  23. Row 23 (RS): 9 Purple, 3 Graphite, 10 Purple, 2 Graphite, 2 Cream, 3 Graphite, 1 Cream, 4 Graphite, 1 Cream, 3 Graphite, 2 Cream, 1 Graphite, 1 Gray, 10 Purple, 3 Graphite, 9 Purple
  24. Row 24 (WS): 10 Purple, 3 Graphite, 6 Purple, 3 Graphite, 1 Gray, 1 Graphite, 2 Cream, 3 Graphite, 1 Cream, 4 Graphite, 1 Cream, 3 Graphite, 2 Cream, 5 Graphite, 6 Purple, 3 Graphite, 10 Purple
  25. Row 25 (RS): 11 Purple, 2 Graphite, 4 Purple, 7 Graphite, 3 Cream, 2 Graphite, 1 Cream, 4 Graphite, 1 Cream, 2 Graphite, 3 Cream, 1 Graphite, 1 Gray, 5 Graphite, 4 Purple, 3 Graphite, 10 Purple
  26. Row 26 (WS): 11 Purple, 9 Graphite, 2 Purple, 2 Gray, 6 Cream, 4 Graphite, 6 Cream, 1 Graphite, 3 Purple, 9 Graphite, 11 Purple
  27. Row 27 (RS): 12 Purple, 6 Graphite, 6 Purple, 1 Graphite, 4 Cream, 6 Graphite, 4 Cream, 2 Gray, 5 Purple, 6 Graphite, 12 Purple
  28. Row 28 (WS): 13 Purple, 2 Graphite, 8 Purple, 2 Gray, 15 Graphite, 9 Purple, 2 Graphite, 13 Purple
  29. Row 29 (RS): 23 Purple, 15 Graphite, 2 Gray, 1 Graphite, 23 Purple
  30. Row 30 (WS): 12 Purple, 2 Graphite, 8 Purple, 3 Graphite, 2 Gray, 11 Graphite, 1 Purple, 3 Graphite, 8 Purple, 2 Graphite, 12 Purple
  31. Row 31 (RS): 12 Purple, 3 Graphite, 6 Purple, 3 Graphite, 3 Purple, 1 Gray, 4 Graphite, 1 Cream, 2 Graphite, 3 Gray, 2 Purple, 3 Graphite, 6 Purple, 3 Graphite, 12 Purple
  32. Row 32 (WS): 13 Purple, 2 Graphite, 5 Purple, 3 Graphite, 5 Purple, 3 Gray, 1 Cream, 3 Gray, 6 Purple, 2 Graphite, 5 Purple, 3 Graphite, 13 Purple
  33. Row 33 (RS): 13 Purple, 3 Graphite, 4 Purple, 3 Graphite, 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 8 Purple, 3 Graphite, 4 Purple, 3 Graphite, 13 Purple
  34. Row 34 (WS): 14 Purple, 3 Graphite, 2 Purple, 3 Graphite, 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 10 Purple, 3 Graphite, 2 Purple, 3 Graphite, 14 Purple
  35. Row 35 (RS): 15 Purple, 6 Graphite, 11 Purple, 1 Cream, 10 Purple, 6 Graphite, 15 Purple
  36. Row 36 (WS): 16 Purple, 4 Graphite, 11 Purple, 1 Cream, 12 Purple, 4 Graphite, 16 Purple
  37. Row 37 (RS): 14 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 2 Graphite, 12 Purple, 2 Cream, 12 Purple, 2 Graphite, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 14 Purple
  38. Row 38 (WS): 14 Purple, 1 Cream, 16 Purple, 2 Cream, 16 Purple, 1 Cream, 14 Purple
  39. Row 39 (RS): 15 Purple, 1 Cream, 14 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 2 Cream, 14 Purple, 1 Cream, 15 Purple
  40. Row 40 (WS): 15 Purple, 2 Cream, 12 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 13 Purple, 1 Cream, 15 Purple
  41. Row 41 (RS): 15 Purple, 2 Cream, 11 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 10 Purple, 3 Cream, 15 Purple
  42. Row 42 (WS): 15 Purple, 2 Cream, 1 Purple, 2 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 8 Purple, 4 Cream, 15 Purple
  43. Row 43 (RS): 15 Purple, 2 Cream, 2 Purple, 2 Cream, 4 Purple, 2 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 2 Cream, 3 Purple, 2 Cream, 15 Purple
  44. Row 44 (WS): 14 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 4 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 4 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 15 Purple
  45. Row 45 (RS): 14 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 14 Purple, 1 Cream, 13 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 14 Purple
  46. Row 46 (WS): 14 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 13 Purple, 1 Cream, 14 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 14 Purple
  47. Row 47 (RS): 13 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 13 Purple, 1 Cream, 12 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 13 Purple
  48. Row 48 (WS): 1 Cream, 11 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 12 Purple, 2 Cream, 12 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 11 Purple, 1 Cream
  49. Row 49 (RS): 1 Cream, 10 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 12 Purple, 2 Cream, 12 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 10 Purple, 1 Cream
  50. Row 50 (WS): 1 Purple, 2 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 8 Purple, 1 Cream, 10 Purple, 2 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 10 Purple, 1 Cream, 8 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 2 Cream, 1 Purple
  51. Row 51 (RS): 2 Purple, 8 Cream, 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 8 Purple, 2 Cream, 9 Purple, 8 Cream, 2 Purple
  52. Row 52 (WS): 2 Purple, 2 Cream, 15 Purple, 3 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 2 Cream, 15 Purple, 2 Cream, 2 Purple
  53. Row 53 (RS): 2 Purple, 2 Cream, 15 Purple, 5 Cream, 2 Purple, 2 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 3 Cream, 1 Purple, 2 Cream, 15 Purple, 2 Cream, 2 Purple
  54. Row 54 (WS): 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 13 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 2 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 2 Cream, 3 Purple, 2 Cream, 14 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple
  55. Row 55 (RS): 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 12 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 11 Purple, 1 Cream, 10 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 12 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple
  56. Row 56 (WS): 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 10 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 10 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 11 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple
  57. Row 57 (RS): 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 10 Purple, 1 Cream, 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple
  58. Row 58 (WS): 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 9 Purple, 2 Cream, 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 2 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple
  59. Row 59 (RS): 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 7 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 8 Purple, 2 Cream, 8 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 8 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple
  60. Row 60 (WS): 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 12 Purple, 2 Cream, 6 Purple, 2 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 2 Cream, 12 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple
  61. Row 61 (RS): 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 2 Cream, 11 Purple, 3 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 3 Cream, 11 Purple, 2 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple
  62. Row 62 (WS): 1 Cream, 8 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 10 Purple, 2 Cream, 1 Purple, 4 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 4 Cream, 1 Purple, 2 Cream, 10 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 8 Purple, 1 Cream
  63. Row 63 (RS): 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 9 Purple, 2 Cream, 8 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 2 Cream, 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 8 Purple, 1 Cream
  64. Row 64 (WS): 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 9 Purple
  65. Row 65 (RS): 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 9 Purple
  66. Row 66 (WS): 8 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 3 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 2 Cream, 2 Purple, 2 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 9 Purple
  67. Row 67 (RS): 8 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 3 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 4 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 8 Purple
  68. Row 68 (WS): 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 2 Cream, 8 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 2 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 8 Purple, 2 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple
  69. Row 69 (RS): 5 Purple, 2 Cream, 8 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 7 Purple, 2 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 2 Cream, 7 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 8 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream
  70. Row 70 (WS): 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 3 Cream, 9 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 7 Cream, 2 Purple, 5 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 2 Purple, 1 Cream, 10 Purple, 5 Cream
  71. Row 71 (RS): 1 Purple, 3 Cream, 11 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 2 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 2 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 11 Purple, 3 Cream, 1 Purple
  72. Row 72 (WS): 4 Purple, 2 Cream, 8 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 1 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 8 Purple, 2 Cream, 4 Purple
  73. Row 73 (RS): 6 Purple, 2 Cream, 5 Purple, 1 Cream, 6 Purple, 4 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 4 Cream, 6 Purple, 1 Cream, 5 Purple, 2 Cream, 6 Purple
  74. Row 74 (WS): 8 Purple, 5 Cream, 8 Purple, 2 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 3 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 1 Cream, 4 Purple, 2 Cream, 8 Purple, 5 Cream, 8 Purple

You are welcome to sell pillows you make from this pattern. Please share a link to the pattern's web page instead of the pattern itself.

Save this pattern to Pinterest

Pin it now so it is easy to find again when you are ready to start.

Save to Pinterest

Try Loopixie first

Turn a picture into a tapestry crochet chart, fix any stitch, and crochet along row by row. Leave your email for early access.

Enjoy your pattern!

Make one from your photo

Loopixie turns a picture into a tapestry crochet chart like this one: your pet, a favorite place, anything you love. It opens soon. Leave your email for early access.