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.
Since I retired I host a Halloween BOOfet 👻 with lots of gruesome foods 🎃 The grandkids & great grandkids love it!
The guys in my family have a “turkey trot” foot race every Thanksgiving to burn off some of those excess calories!
It’s not quirky but it’s also not traditional Christmas food. We have homemade spaghetti and meatballs on the time when we open presents, I’m 71 years old and I can’t remember a time when my family did this.
Our family does this…my husband, our sons and their families including grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Our family does not have any offbeat traditions. Just have impromptu gatherings occasionally when least expected.
I don’t have any particular holiday traditions/decorations that I follow today. When my kids were younger, we’d decorate for all the different holudays, now it’s pretty much just Christmas.
My SIL is an MD & wears full suit/tie of holiday fabrics for many of the holidays, a tradition he started for his birthday, St Patrick’s Day. His patients love it & all want selfies with him!!
On Halloween we always have chili and hot dogs for dinner and before trick or treating. We still do this every year with some of our grandkidsl.
Our off-beat family celebration involves shooting bottle rockets (fireworks) into the pond on the 4th of July. The underwater explosion is silent but visible. No fish are harmed.
My family celebrates New Year’s Day with a party ever since I could remember. No theme, no fancy food or decorations. Lots of appetizers and pot luck and leftover holiday cookies. It’s the perfect way to bring in the New Year!
I can’t say that we have any “offbeat” family traditions. We pretty much stick to keeping the same traditions every year because my younger son gets distressed if I try to change anything.
When I was a kid we would pick up my grandpa from the nursing home and drive around looking at Christmas lights with him. I think of those days every time that I take my boys to look at the lights. 💙
We take hot cocoa with us usually.
Our offbeat celebration is the “first day of buck”(start of hunting season) The men go hunting and the ladies go shopping. At the end of the day we all get together for some dinner and converation, but not necessarily to compare our harvests. Women might have too much fabric to reveal! LOL
I guess my Easter tradition for my 2 grandkids when they were young was to give them new bathing suits & fun beach towels for the summer in their Easter basket since I knew they would be getting way too much candy. Of course I added some candy!
I put up my three foot Christmas tree October decorated all Halloween then change decorations November first to thanksgiving. Love to decorate for fall.
We always have fried oatmeal on Christmas morning!
We watch the original Star Wars trilogy at Christmas.
When the kids were younger I went all out for Halloween – a boom box with spooky sounds like chains rattling and ghosts moaning blaring out the front window, lots of Jack o lanterns, orange and purple lights out front, spooky scarecrows in recliners on the lawn – and of course the dog and I dressed up to hand out candy! Fun times!
I love Pat Sloan and her new book is fabulous. Our family favourite “offbeat” Holiday tradition is to open all the stockings first, then one person opens a present at our house one at a time! We started to wrap things together and try to limit the wrapping because some times gift opening would take up half the day. LOL. We are all grateful for gift cards! I love your Halloween Tablescape. My grandson absolutely loves Halloween and it is his favourite season. He has been building a collection of spooky yard decor for a long time. I will share this idea with him, hope you don’t mind.