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.
Camping on a mountain at 8500 feet with all the kids is a tradition we do every summer. Some sleep in hammocks, tents, RV’s, etc. Always a fun time!
I’m enjoying this tour for the holiday book. It is great to see how you make the project yours. Might have to start setting a faux party table. I like the idea of chair leg decorations too.
I take Christmas treats to the barn cats I feed every day. They don’t have a clue. Took them toys one year- catnip mice. That didn’t last long.
It’s not really that off-beat, but even tho it’s just us two, my husband and I like to decorate for Halloween as we did for our kids. I had made several articulated skeletons from old fashioned paper plates with body parts attached with string, and the kids had drawn different expressions on their faces plates, and cut out tracings of their hands for the skeletons hands. We would tape down and pose these tall skeletons in all the windows, and in chairs on the porch. Over the years the hands got bigger, and the faces took on fun and gruesome expressions. My mom started this tradition when my 4 brothers and I were kids. Now our kids have a bunch and carry out the tradition with their kids.
I don’t really have any traditions other than family dinner for Thanksgiving and Christmas.
We have some different family traditions. My mother-in- law always made a birthday cake for Jesus, read the Christmas story, and we sang Happy Birthday before we opened presents. She had stocking night where she bought everyone a new pair of socks, filled one and hid it and gave the other one to the person it belonged to and then they had to find their stocking by the lights of the Christmas tree. My son keeps those tradition going with his grandchildren and children. I added a new one of pie crust cookies. Now my great-granddaughter helps make them. If I don’t make them, I hear about it because that is the favorite snack at Christmas meal with the family.
For years we had a ceramic-type goose (I had purchased from a catalogue) that came with seasonal outfits. Of course the Halloween outfit was our favorite! The Goose would be decked out in its cape, a wig of long green hair and pointed witches hat 😉 it was/is a Hoot!!
We make an annual trek to a nearby town that’s festooned with fabulous Halloween decorations! We park our car and walk through the different sections and watch all of the marvelous computer-controlled musical displays and mini-movies.
After Halloween, those same neighborhoods convert their decor to Christmas-themed decor including nightly “snowfalls” ( hey, I’m in Florida so it’s kinda nice!), caroling and crazy blow up figures! It’s a blast!
My family celebrates St. Urho’s day which is March 16 – just before St. Pats day. Its a Finnish made up holiday here. lol We wear purple and Make Finnish breads to have open face sandwiches for dinner. I love your table topper – I would love to give that a go! thank you!
I decorate our Christmas Tree different every year on a four year cycle. It happened when we downsized our tree and I needed to reduce the number of ornaments. I couldn’t get rid of them so I grouped them by theme and now every year I get to enjoy a different look.
We don’t have any off-beat traditions but enjoy our family and friends.
I am happy to read that many don’t have off beat traditions. I guess for me was when I was working, I would volunteer to work Christmas Eve day as long as I was at my parents by 6pm for dinner. And have the 26th off to extend the holiday a bit and go shopping.
We have off beat meals for the traditional holidays. Examples are lasagna for Christmas and vegan stew for Thanksgiving.
I hang up a tacky foil Happy Birthday banner for each family member’s birthday. It’s not a wacky tradition but is guaranteed to get a roll of the eyes for ‘Mom’s wacky banner’.
No off-beat holiday tradtions, but we always spend them together when we can. I love your new fabrics and I need a Halloween table runner, so… 🙂
Everything about Halloween (my favorite holiday) is offbeat. It starts with a family picking a minimum of 30 pumpkins from an un manicured farm. Need to be their farm opening day and strive to be first car in line to get biggest ones. New yard decorations each year, including full sized bodies. A week before Halloween family does pumpkin carving & lighting. On Halloween themed costumes for all neighbor adults, trick or treating and party. It’s more than a full month of prep and activity. Love your new Halloween line and how you selected it for your tablerunner.
I dress up every Halloween and take the kids out trick or treating. I took my kids the grandkids and now I take the great grandkids we have a great time.
I always hide the pickle on the Christmas tree
on Christmas Eve the one who finds it first gets a special gift….