Spooky Twist Halloween Table Topper from the Holiday Celebrations Book
Learn how to create a “not so spooky” Halloween Table topper with the Spooky Twist Halloween table topper pattern in the Holiday Celebrations Book!
Who’s ready for another Halloween in June project!? Pat Sloan asked if I would be willing to check out an advanced copy of her new book Holiday Celebrations. I love Pat and was happy to participate.
The timing seemed perfect since I just released a Halloween fabric collection. As I glanced through the book, I knew immediately that I’d like to create one of the projects in the book using my Spooky Hollow collection. I love to sew Halloween quilts and thought it would be fun to add a table topper to my collection.
I created a “not so spooky” Halloween table topper using the Spooky Twist pattern that is in the book.
Table Topper Details
The quilted table topper comprises 9 quilt blocks that, when sewn together, create a cool “twist” effect.
The blocks are simple to piece; this project would be great for an advanced beginner quilter to above. But, first, you need to create several Half Square Triangle quilt blocks. I was able to sit down one afternoon last week and quickly whip up the table topper.
Our Halloween Dinner Parties!
Every year for Halloween, I set my dining room table for a Halloween-themed dinner party. I set the table at the beginning of October and leave it up all month. Then most years, we end it with either a family or friend party in the dining room.
We got the idea one year at the Mall when my twins were preschoolers. A local furniture store had their dining room table set up with skeletons and mummies sitting in the seats. My son was very impressed and asked me every day after that to “go to the store where the monsters are having a meeting.”
Ever since then, we’ve set up our dining room for a “spooky meeting.” Now that my kids are gone, we still do it every year. It’s one of my favorite traditions. Yes, I know it’s a little weird, but as I said, we love it!
I plan to use this table topper on my dining room table now. I created it in black and gray to match our dining room setup.
Where to Buy the Book
You can find the book in many of your favorite shops and on Amazon.
Book & Prize Giveaway
Pat has generously offered to give away a hard copy of the book to one reader. To enter, just let me know what your favorite “offbeat” family Holiday tradition is! (comments are moderated, don’t worry if you don’t see yours pop up right away, it’s in there!)
The Giveaway open until 6/15/21. Non-US residents can win a digital copy of the book.
THE GIVEAWAY IS NOW CLOSED. THE WINNER HAS BEEN NOTIFIED.
Pat also has a BIG prize pack that she’s giving away on her blog. Stop by to find out how to enter.
You can also enter on Instagram, just visit Pat’s IG page for details.
My daughter got married on Halloween and it was fabulous! Now we have a Halloween Anniversary party every year.
After the Christmas meal on Christmas Eve, dishes done, presents opened, then it is time for the Rook cards or UNO to come out. Great memories.
Santa sneaks’ in early on Christmas eve and leaves PJs and a movie for the little kids to watch. I started this with my own Santa signature when my kids were little. Now my daughter has taken over when the kids don’t get to come to Grammie’s to find Santa’s gift. Santa is one sly old elf as he always seems to know which house the little kids will be at on Christmas eve to watch a movie before bed.
So our holiday traditions are pretty low key and normal, but I created a tradition about 11 years ago when driving to the beach. Every year on the first drive over to the beach (my inlaws live 9 miles to the beach) we watch the cartoon movie Surfs Up. We have introduced several of our teen boys friends to the movie and it is the most quoted movie in the house. Followed closely by Star Wars films,The Princess Bride, and Goonies.
I guess our “off beat” holiday tradition would be that we never have “traditional” Christmas dinners. Every year, we’d pick something different for Christmas Eve Dinner. Everything from Kentucky Fried Chicken, Homemade Chinese, Make your own pizzas. Now that we have grandkids, it has changed as son’s children are still young and they live 4 hours away and now my daughter hosts us but they still make something different and not traditional.
We get together on Christmas Eve and eat finger foods and play dirty bingo. It’s fun to see the things people have found during the year to wrap as gifts. 😆
I love to decorate all the holidays – have theme boxes to prove it. Also love to sew/quilt. Liked your black & gray halloween table topper an can see it in various colors for many holidays.
My two siblings and I are 5 years apart and Mom was 20 years older than me so every 5 years in the fall we would have a Big 5 birthday celebration for all of us. Our gifts to each other were usually more funny and less serious.
On Christmas eve my family gathers for a traditional dinner. We started a memory book by taking a group photo, everyone shares memories from the past year then we play games to see who will be the keeper of the book until next Christmas and plan the game to choose the following book keeper. The book is stored in a decorative box with all the dated photos. So fun to look back in the book at at the past pictures!
Thanks for the opportunity! Great Ideas.
I would love to win the book. We decorate for Valentine’s Day and hide candy throughout our house!
We still break out the crayons and coloring books on Christmas Eve and color Christmas pictures…..haha my kids are in their 30’s now!! Maybe I should make a quilt out of all the past pictures???
Thank you for the opportunity to win Pat’s new book. I love the winter/Christmas season. My favorite are crisp blue and white quilts that are reflections of ice and snow of the season.
No offbeat anymore now that I’m retired but back in the old days Halloween was a fun one.
We have tried to continue the Scandinavian tradition of lutefisk and lefse meal for Christmas Eve or New Year’s Eve. With the plandemic limiting many family gatherings these past 2 winters, we have threatened to do a “Christmas in July” lutefisk get-together.
Our family enjoys all kinds of off beat traditions and celebrations.
Generations of our family have enjoyed cards, we don’t need a reason to have fun just bring out the double deck!
Early December the grandkids come over and we bake cookies, they get to frost and sprinkle to their hearts content and then decorate all the. Christmas trees. We make cocoa and taste-test the cookies, best day ever.
We like to have corn beef and cabbage on St. Patrick’s day.