Free crochet spider pattern — two pieces, 19 rounds written out
This is a free crochet spider pattern for a body 7 cm from head to tail that spans about 11 cm with the legs bent out, worked on a 3.0 mm hook in four colours, about an hour and three quarters' work. The two pieces are one length of yarn: the abdomen opens to 21 stitches, carries a plum-purple band on rounds 5 and 6, then tapers to eight, and the head is worked straight into those eight. The legs are four chenille stems threaded through head rounds 4 and 5 before it is stuffed, then wrapped end to end in charcoal. All 19 rounds are written out below across two pieces, each carrying the stitch count it ends on.
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Why it is rated Easy
Easy on the hook: nineteen plain rounds and one colour band. The care goes into stuffing the abdomen at round 9, while the opening is still 12 wide, and threading the legs before the head closes.
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00What you need before you start
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What you need before you start
Yarn — four colours, all weight 3
1 skein (about 25 g used)DK cotton
scraps, about 4 mDK cotton
scraps, about 6 mDK cotton, wound along the chenille stems rather than crocheted
scraps, under 1 mDK cotton, embroidered on at the end
Tools
4 you probably own, 2 to buyYou likely have
Tapestry needle
Scissors
Stitch markers
A chopstick or long tweezers for stuffing
You need to buy
Chenille stems (pipe cleaners) ×4, about 12 cm each once trimmed
Polyester stuffing (~10 g)
Optional
A stitch marker in a contrast colour for the round start
Old scissors or small pliers for cutting the chenille stems
White embroidery floss if you want crisper eyes than yarn gives
Gauge and finished size
the last check before you cast onTension
Work tight enough that the stuffing cannot show between stitches. Exact gauge does not matter here — a looser hand gives a slightly larger spider on the same counts.
Finished size
~7 cm from head to tail, about 11 cm across with the legs bent out
Chenille stems put wire in the legs, so this is not a toy for a child under three. Knot on doubled lengths of charcoal yarn instead and the eight legs stay soft, though they will not hold a bend.
How to make the spider, piece by piece
Switching rewrites every round:US6 sc in mrUK6 dc in mrWork a US sc as a UK single crochet and the fabric comes out looser and taller.
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01The abdomen
The big rear ball. Out to 21 stitches, two straight rounds in plum…10 RNDS
starts in black· magic ring· Piece 1 of 2
First six rounds[6] [12] [18] [21] [21] [21]
Opening out
RND 1–41[6]
2[12]
3[18]
4[21]
The plum purple band
RND 5–65[21]
6[21]
Tapering to the waist
RND 7–107[18]
8[15]
9[12]
10[8]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreasest(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneStuff it firmly before round 10 takes the opening down to eight stitches. Leave those eight live and keep your hook in the work — the head starts on them.
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02The head
Carry on from the abdomen's eight stitches, open out to 18, and hold…9 RNDS
starts in black· picked up· Piece 2 of 2
First six rounds[8] [16] [18] [18] [18] [18]
Out from the waist
RND 1–31[8]
2[16]
3[18]
Straight — the legs go through here
RND 4–64[18]
5[18]
6[18]
Closing the face
RND 7–97[12]
8[8]
9[4]
US termsmrmagic ringscsingle crochetincincreasedecdecreasest(s)stitch, or stitches
When this piece is doneThread the four chenille stems through rounds 4 and 5 before you stuff, then stuff the head lightly around them and close. Wrap the eight ends in charcoal, embroider the eyes across rounds 6 and 7, and bend the legs into shape.
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Ten notes on the spider
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01An original Crochet Genie design.
02Worked in a continuous spiral. Nothing is joined and nothing is turned, so mark the first stitch of every round and move the marker up as you go.
03The two pieces are one length of yarn. The abdomen ends on 8 live stitches and the head carries straight on from them, so there is no seam to sew and no second magic ring.
04Stuff the abdomen firmly at the end of round 9, while the opening is still 12 stitches wide. Once you are down to 8 you cannot reach in with anything but a chopstick.
05The legs are not crocheted. Trim four chenille stems to about 12 cm. Thread two of them through the head at round 4 and two at round 5, going in one side and out the other, and centre each one so about 5 cm sticks out on each side. Do this before you stuff the head.
06Wrap each of the eight protruding ends closely with charcoal yarn, working from the body outwards and back again, then thread the tail into the wrap to secure it. Fold the last centimetre of each stem back on itself before you wrap, so no wire end can work its way out.
07Bend a knee into each leg once they are wrapped — down from the body, then out and down again to the floor. The stems hold whatever angle you leave them at, so the spider can stand or crouch.
08The eyes are eight small white stitches in two rows of four, sitting across rounds 6 and 7 on the front of the head. Eight reads as spider more clearly than two does, and they are easier to place before the head closes past round 7.
09Change to plum purple at the start of round 5 of the abdomen and back to black at the start of round 7. Both changes fall on a round boundary, so the band sits level around the widest part of the body.
10Not a toy for a child under three: chenille stems have wire in them. For a small child, leave the stems out and knot on doubled lengths of charcoal yarn for soft legs instead.
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