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.
I’ve actually started decorating more for Halloween since we moved to our current house. It is fun.
I inherited my offbeat holiday tradition from my family’s best friends, who always “swept out the old year” with brooms on New Years Eve. Very satisfying when the old year had been lousy to vigorously sweep it out the door.
We do not have any quirky holiday traditions but they are always changing now that the kids are grown. Beautiful work!
love your fabrics and what you made from pat’s book
On Thanksgiving Eve we all get together and eat pie for dinner. We used to save the pie for Thanksgiving dinner but no one was eating it because everyone was too full by that time so we now eat the pie before dinner (the night before). Just another way to get everyone together.
During the hunting weekend, the women gather to do Christmas Cookie baking and exchanging. We make 15-20 different kinds. The goal is to get some in the freezer for Christmas.
Not sure how “off beat” this is, but at Christmas time we set up 8 decorated trees in our home. It’s a literal winter wonderland and we love it! We started when our daughter was going to college at BYU Hawaii. She was tired of the tropical weather and longing for snow and cold so we transformed the whole house into a Christmas tree forest before she flew home. She was so surprised! We all loved it so much that now we start setting up the first of November.
I have a night around Halloween called “Boogedy night” where all my grandchildren come over and we watch a Halloween themed movie and make gooey popcorn with lots of candy in it. They stay over night and then we have a Halloween cereal in the morning. They always beg all year for the gooey popcorn but I tell them it is only for our special night once a year so they will look forward to it!
We do finger foods Christmas Day and have our big Christmas dinner the day before or the day after Christmas; usually the day after.
For Christmas, our tree is not complete until a Lincoln Memorial ornament is on the tree and it plays a few bars of the song “America the Beautiful”. Then when u turn on the tree lights daily the song plays again. My kids, age 21 and 16, think that is very normal and is a sign Christmas is coming. Lol
I don’t think we have any offbeat traditions. We must be a boring normal family. We get together for holidays, we have few decorations, good food, and a fun time.
love your take on the halloween table topper
not really off beat. But, thanksgiving is the only holiday when all of my sisters and brothers come home at the same time. since my nieces were little we have given them their christmas present as $$ and then starting Thursday night do a Black Friday shopping marathon– sometime is a couple of hours and sometimes a couple of days.
when my youngest niece was in grade school and the class was asked about favorite holidays– she said Black Friday– there was some explaining to do at the school
Our Christmas gift exchange involves making your gift for the name you draw.
Offbeat, I’d have to say summer and winter solstice, after have had lived in Alaska for 40 years. Street fairs on June 21st, a Midnight Sun Baseball Game with the local minor league, and winter was fireworks, well because with 24-hrs of sunlight all summer, you couldn’t see any fireworks.
When our kids were little having the huge Thanksgiving lunch and then a few weeks later having it all over again for Christmas was a little much four our littles who didn’t like all of the southern casseroles that were part of my husbands families traditions so, we swapped up our Christmas meal and started grilling hamburgers with all of the summertime fixings. The kids love it, my husband loves it and we all enjoy it much better than left over casseroles for the whole next week.
We celebrate “Juneapaloosa” – which is like a family reunion every June (pre-Covid). We always have a theme (patriotic, more often than not), bring food, play games, and enjoy being together. We created this holiday so that it didn’t interfere with other holidays and most of the family could come. We look forward to it every year.
I decorate the inside and outside of the house for Halloween. But, the most quirky holiday tradition is having our Elf on a Shelf (Table) visit us every year from December 1-24. He does antics and brings little things every single day and has for the last ten years. My youngest son will be 7 and I don’t know how much longer he’ll believe in Santa and the Elf but I will probably still have Table visit in some form!