The Gacha-girls were busy thinking about what kind of Halloween patterns they wanted to do, and one of them suggested they make some cross-stitch patterns, so they did, but one pattern proved a bit difficult and they decided to leave it for another time. Then Gacha-Vilje thought, what if we just use the pumpkin part and make it into a crochet piece? She hurriedly found her stash and in that stash one lonely ball of orange yarn lay, so she picked it up and started to convert the cross-stitch pattern into a crochet pattern.
When you do filet-crochet you can easily use pixelated pictures to make your crochet piece, like I did.
In filet crochet you make a mesh-like crochet piece with holes (usually one dc and one chain stitch and skip one stitch or one dc and two chains and skip two stitches) and places which are filled with dc's. Using just those two stitches you can make a whole little picture. The black parts in the diagram are the parts that consists of dc-stitches and the white holes are the dc one, chain one and skip one stitch part where it looks like a mesh.
I did mine as a picture and hung it on the wall, but you can make a table runner or a curtain or door-sign, your imagination is the limit. The holes in the sides are perfect to pull a string through for an even more festive feel, I used some purple I had left from last Christmas.
You can also choose not to do the border part but then you have to calculate how many starting chains you need.
Gauge is not important in this pattern, use the hook specified on your chosen yarn and remember the size of the finished product will be smaller or larger depending on your yarn and your personal gauge.
I used Søstrene Grene's cotton yarn and hook 3. My finished piece measures 36x46 cm.
As a table cloth.
and I made a little bow at the end.
My finished version is a little bit different than the pattern because after I made mine I wanted the teeth to show more and the letters to slide a bit to the side. But you do as you please.
If I had more yarn I would have made both versions and made a long table runner, but I only had one ball of yarn and some leftovers, 66 grams of yarn in total and 36x46 cm.
I started with 83+3 chains to make my Pumpkin picture.
If you want to make it into a table runner simply print out this picture and start one on side and crochet back and forth until you reach the end, you can make the English or Norwegian version or both.
English version.
Enjoy our free pattern.
Happy Halloween!
