What’s in the set
Five Halloween granny squares, each big enough to stand a mug on and small enough to finish in an evening. One hook — 3.0 mm — does all five. Every one is a written PDF you can print and work from, and every one is complete on its own.
- Ghost — a white ghost on a green square, with a scalloped hem crocheted straight onto the circle, a stitched black face, and a small bow on top of its head. 19 pages. Full page →
- Pumpkin — a grinning orange pumpkin on a white square, with round cheeks, a yellow outline, a green stem and a stitched black face. 21 pages. Full page →
- Spider — a spider sitting in the middle of its own white web, in any two colours you like. The googly eyes in the photograph are not in the pattern; stick a pair on yourself if you want them. 15 pages. Full page →
- Eyeball — one big wide-open eye: a black pupil, a white highlight and an iris in whatever colour you pick. Six rounds, one piece, nothing sewn on. 13 pages. Full page →
- Pirate Skull — a white skull in the middle of a purple sunburst with twelve picot-tipped rays, on a yellow square. The skull is made separately, in five short rows, and sewn on. 25 pages. Full page →
All five finish on the same last round — four groups of three double crochet along each side, and a corner of 3 dc, ch 2, 3 dc — so they read as a set even though no two of them are built the same way underneath. Pick any one and start; you do not need the others to make it.
Everything about the set, before you pay for it
Most pattern listings tell you after. Here is the whole spec.
| What you get | Five written crochet patterns, one PDF each. All five download links arrive together. |
| What you make | Five Halloween granny squares — a ghost, a pumpkin, a spider, an eye and a pirate skull. Each one is flat, and a mug stands on it. |
| Finished size | The ghost, the pumpkin, the eye and the skull come out at about 12 cm (4¾ in) square. The spider is smaller, about 10.5 cm (4 in). These are worked out from the stitch counts and the photographs rather than measured off a finished piece, which is why they all say “about”. |
| Hook | 3.0 mm. One hook for all five. |
| Yarn | 5-ply combed cotton, about a DK weight, throughout. |
| Yarn needed | Every square is a leftovers project. The most any one colour is asked for in any one pattern is about 11 g (25 yd). White turns up in all five and comes to about 30 g (70 yd) across the set; nothing else comes to more than about 12 g (25 yd). Each PDF lists its own colours. |
| Colours | White, black, green, orange, yellow and purple cover the ghost, the pumpkin, the eye and the skull. The spider’s two colours and the eye’s iris are yours to pick. |
| Time to make | From about 45 minutes (the eye) to about 1½ hours (the skull). About 5½ hours for all five. |
| Pages | 93 across the five files — from 13 (the eye) to 25 (the skull). |
| Count checkpoints | In all five, at the rounds where a miscount actually shows up. |
| Skill level | Confident beginner, which is what the patterns themselves say: joined rounds, colour changes, a granny square, and — on three of the five — a small piece sewn or stitched on. |
| Sewing | Varies, and each PDF says exactly what. The eye has none at all. The spider has none but the sewn join that closes its last round. The ghost has a bow to sew on and a face to stitch. The pumpkin has lines and a face to stitch, with no piece sewn on. The skull is the only separately made piece in the set. |
| Joining the squares | Each square is written as a finished square, and none of the five files covers joining squares together. They also do not all come out the same size — the spider is about 1.5 cm smaller than the other four. A blanket layout would be yours to choose. |
| Also needed | One stitch marker, a blunt yarn needle and scissors. That is the whole list, for all five. |
| Terminology | US crochet terms, all five. |
| Language | English, all five. |
| Left-handed | Every pattern is written for you too. Work each one exactly as written and your square comes out a mirror image of the photographs; the counts are identical. The ghost and the pumpkin each name the two places that read differently, and the other three change nothing at all. |
| Delivery | One payment, one confirmation page, five download links — on the page and in your email, straight away. |
No two of the five are built the same way. The eye is one piece with nothing sewn on at all. The ghost’s hem is crocheted straight onto the circle. The pumpkin’s cheeks, outline and stem grow out of the square itself. The spider’s legs and head grow out of its body, and the web grows out from behind it. The skull is five turned rows, made separately and sewn on.
Every file is a complete written pattern — rounds, counts, finishing steps — that you can print, mark up and work from at your own pace.
Real crochet, captured while it was being made
You have learned to zoom in on a listing photo looking for stitches that don’t join up. You should — the shops selling patterns behind pictures that were never crocheted are real, and there are a lot of them.
So here is the unglamorous version, from two of the five: the ghost’s white circle held between two hands with the green yarn already hooked over a finger, and the little skull lying in an open palm with its sewing tails still hanging off it and a needle held between the fingers. Both were captured while the piece was actually being made.
Nothing on this page is an AI-generated square.
Counted twice — all five
My grandmother taught me on her porch, and she said the same thing every time I tangled the yarn: slow down, count twice, rip it out if it’s wrong — there’s no shame in starting over.
So every pattern in this shop gets counted twice. Once when it’s written. Then again, before it goes on sale: every round is re-added, stitch by stitch, and checked against the round before it.
That’s the whole thing. It’s not clever. It is just the step almost nobody takes, because until a pattern is written down properly you can’t take it — and because nobody was ever asked to show their working.
I’m asking to show mine.
The round that catches people out on a picture granny square is always the same one: the round where the circle stops being a circle and turns into a square. Get it wrong and one side ends up longer than the others, and you usually don’t find out until the corners refuse to line up — and then you spend twenty minutes wondering whether it was you. It usually wasn’t you. That not-being-able-to-tell is the part that makes people put the hook down. Every one of these five squares writes that round out stitch by stitch and then stops you at the end of it to count: all 36 stitches used, nine along each side, or all 48 used, twelve along each side. A video can show you that round. It cannot tell you whether your own square ended it on the right number.
Counted twice means you can tell. No more counting the same round for the third time, writing it out on paper to make it add up, and still not knowing whether it’s you or the pattern. The count in the pattern is right. If yours doesn’t match it, the slip is in the round you just made — undo that one round and carry on.
You probably have one project in a bag somewhere, stopped at a round you can still name. Often it stopped on a count that wouldn’t come out. Every count in these five comes out, which leaves you the part you came for: finishing them, and handing them to people without an apology.
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