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.
Our holiday tradition is to play Scrabble.
No quirky traditions here now that I am alone. I still like to sew holiday decorations and decorate my house, especially at Christmas.
I guess I’m pretty traditional but my daughter’s favorite holiday is May 1st – that’s the day she can go hunting for antlers that animals have shed. She lives in Wyoming.
We always have Thanksgiving dinner at half-time for the Dallas Cowboys football game. I’m sure we’re not the only ones, haha.
What a fun tradition you have – I don’t think it’s weird at all! I don’t have anything “weird” but my favorite tradition started about 9 years ago when my youngest grandbaby was only 2 (I have 7 grandbabies, now aged 11-23!) They wanted to have a “pollyanna” gifting and decided to make gifts for their person. It’s continued all these years and now includes the older kids’ boyfriends & girlfriends! I so look forward to see the great individualized ideas they make for each other. Thanks so much for the chance to win! 🙂
I love celebrating and decorating for all the holidays. Don’t know if we do anything quirky, but we sure have a lot of fun. When our boys were growing up we always cut our own trees down and decorated it all together. Very special!
I guess my off beat holiday month June. My grandma made my mother a quilt when she was 13. It was pink and bonnet Sue quilt. However, she never put the binding on and my mother just kept in a drawer. When I started quilting 15years ago my mom decided to give the quilt to me. I tried very hard to find 1930s muslin but ended up just big it with today’s muslin. So I hang itup in my living room in remembrance of my mom and grandma.
It’s just me now. So put out some decorations to entertain my self.
Off beat tradition? I guess like others I don’t have any off beat ones although I do have 5 Christmas Trees every year – 4 are minis that I decorate with a collection of mini decorations that I have collected over the years. .
I buy an extra turkey every Thanksgiving for my freezer and we have a Thanksgiving in April celebration.
Don’t really have an offbeat tradition, but my father-in-law does put on an scary old-man mask to try and scare us on Halloween. One year my son surprised me by dressing up as a clown to scare me because he knows I don’t like clowns.
Our offbeat holiday tradition is watching Annabell’s Wish, a movie about a cow that wants to be a reindeer. I made a quilt with the Deer Christmas line from Urban Chixs and my daugher cried, “Annabell!” when she saw the backing was the Deer Panel. I love your Halloween Table Runner! Thanks for participating in the book tour!
Offbeat, you decide? We have angel food cake and sing happy birthday to Jesus on Christmas morning (before opening gifts). We’ve been doing it for 50 years or so…
I like the twist pattern in blacks, grays, and whites. Just what the nephew ordered! Thanks.
Love your decorating idea. A Halloween tradition for us is to take the kids, now grandchild, around the neighbourhood, then head into town, order something takeout, then park up on a hill to watch the fireworks. Spectacular !!
The kids always have birthday cake for breakfast on their birthday. So fun!
By “off-beat” I’m guessing you mean a bit unusual? Around Halloween we have cockroach will travel. Our cockroach is plastic about 2 1/2″ long. He shows up in the strangest places, like folded inside your napkin at the table or falling out of the medicine cabinet in the bathroom. Sure does put everyone opening things carefully!
I’m new to your site and enjoying all the things you make.
I decorate a small table with runner and home grown pumpkins.
We don’t have any kids. So we were always the house that was over decorated for every holiday because we had extras time parents didn’t have. Halloween, in particular, was a full blown event with whimsical decorations so the little kids weren’t afraid to come to the house. A Harry Potter room with candles floating in the air, potions ingredients set up and a book shelf of mystical books. The dinning room with ghosts at the table. All holidays get some special treatment in our home. It makes me happy to see those who visit smile and delight in what’s around them.