Free Crochet Pumpkin Placemat Pattern for Halloween

This Crochet Pumpkin Placemat features a classic jack o lantern design that you’ll want to bring out each year as part of your Halloween decorations. This is just one of four tapestry crochet placemats for Halloween. Make them all to set a spooky Halloween table that will delight your family and guests!

This is one of a set of 4 fabulous halloween placemat crochet patterns. All are exactly the same size and each PDF Pattern contains the chart (small and large versions), written instructions and colour block instructions! The collection includes:

• Pumpkin (free pattern below)
• Bat and Moon (free on the blog pattern)
• Cat (currently a paid pattern)
• Witches Hat (currently a paid pattern)

There is the option to purchase the full set of placemat patterns in my shops for one amazing price! You can find them on Etsy here and my website shop here.

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Behind the design

I actually designed and tested this crochet pumpkin placemat pattern back in 2020 as a fun bit of crochet decor for Halloween. But the timing worked out for me to release it the following year as part of a mini Halloween CAL event hosted by CAL Central. Years later, this timeless design is still perfect to dress up your Halloween table!

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Construction of the Crochet Pumpkin Placemat

This crochet jack o lantern placemat, with its smiling face, is created in tapestry crochet. This technique is simpler than you may think. It’s just basic single crochet stitches with simple colour changes. You can learn how to change colours and how to carry your yarn with my tapestry crochet video tutorial.

The Yarn

This set of crochet Halloween placemats was made with Paintbox Cotton Aran. It’s a worsted-weight yarn that’s easy to care for. When they need a refresh, you can just throw them in the washing machine. Memento cotton or Dishie Cotton from WeCrochet would also work well for this pattern.

Get the Individual PDF pattern!

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Sunflower Cottage Crochet Halloween E-Book

If you want more great patterns for crochet Halloween decorations, you’ll find seven fun crochet Halloween decor ideas, including two other Halloween placemats, in my Home for Halloween E-book. It contains the patterns for all of these  shown below:

You can find this Halloween crochet e-book in our Ravelry shop and blog shop at an amazing price!

Are you ready to start the pattern?

Free Pattern for the Halloween Crochet Pumpkin Placemat

Materials:

• Any 4 weight (worsted/aran weight) cotton yarn of your choosing, approximately 500-700 yards
  • I used Paintbox Cotton Aran
• 5mm hook
• Scissors
• Tapestry Needle
• Stitch Markers optional to mark first or last stitch of the row
• Measuring Tape optional

Gauge:

Using sc as your gauge stitch, 2’’x 2’’ is 8 stitches x 10 rows

Sizing:

Finished size is 17.5’’ wide by 11’’ high.

Abbreviations:

• Ch(s) – chain(s)
• St(s) – stitch(es)
• Sc – single crochet

Pattern notes:

• Written in US terms
• Chain 1 does not count as a stitch.
• There are no special stitches used in this pattern.
• This is a side-to-side graph and is worked right to left on the right side (odd numbered rows) and left to right on the wrong side (even numbered rows), and from the bottom to the top. The arrows at the beginning of the row indicate which way you are working that row. It is a reversible pattern, so remember to crochet over any yarn you carry!

I’ve provided an estimated yardage above. However, to work out more accurately how much yarn you will need, you can do a sample swatch and then measure how much yarn you used per stitch, multiplying that by the number of stitches of that color and adding some for the tails to work in at the end.

Color – front panel	Stitch Count
Orange	1130
Brown	33
Black	195
Grey	1906

Written Instructions:

Instructions:

Starting chain: Ch69 and sc in second ch from hook (counts as the first of the 68 stitches for row 1) start row 1.

← Row 1: (Grey) x 68
→ Row 2: (Grey) x 68
← Row 3: (Grey) x 24, (orange) x 20, (Grey) x 24
→ Row 4: (Grey) x 22, (orange) x 24, (Grey) x 22
← Row 5: (Grey) x 21, (orange) x 26, (Grey) x 21
→ Row 6: (Grey) x 20, (orange) x 28, (Grey) x 20
← Row 7: (Grey) x 19, (orange) x 30, (Grey) x 19
→ Row 8: (Grey) x 19, (orange) x 31, (Grey) x 18

← Row 9: (Grey) x 18, (orange) x 15, (black) x 2, (orange) x 15, (Grey) x 18
→ Row 10: (Grey) x 18, (orange) x 10, (black) x 12, (orange) x 11, (Grey) x 17
← Row 11: (Grey) x 16, (orange) x 12, (black) x 13, (orange) x 10, (Grey) x 17
→ Row 12: (Grey) x 17, (orange) x 8, (black) x 19, (orange) x 8, (Grey) x 16

← Row 13: (Grey) x 15, (orange) x 9, (black) x 6, orange, (black) x 8, orange, (black) x 4, (orange) x 8, (Grey) x 16
→ Row 14: (Grey) x 16, (orange) x 7, (black) x 5, (orange) x 2, black, (orange) x 4, black, (orange) x 4, (black) x 4, (orange) x 9, (Grey) x 15
← Row 15: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 9, (black) x 4, (orange) x 10, black, (orange) x 3, (black) x5, (orange) x 7, (Grey) x 15

→ Row 16: (Grey) x 15, (orange) x 7, (black) x 2, (orange) x 2, black, (orange) x 14, (black) x5, (orange) x 8, (Grey) x 14
← Row 17: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 8, black, (orange) x 22, (black) x 2, (orange) x 7, (Grey) x14
→ Row 18: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 7, black, (orange) x 23, (black) x 2, (orange) x 7, (Grey) x14
← Row 19: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 7, black, (orange) x 10, (black) x 3, (orange) x 19, (Grey) x14

→ Row 20: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 19, (black) x 3, (orange) x 18, (Grey) x 14
← Row 21: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 18, (black) x 3, (orange) x 19, (Grey) x 14
→ Row 22: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 19, (black) x 2, (orange) x 19, (Grey) x 14
← Row 23: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 20, black, (orange) x 19, (Grey) x 14
→ Row 24: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 11, (black) x 6, (orange) x 7, (black) x 5, (orange) x 11,(Grey) x 14

← Row 25: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 8, (black) x 8, (orange) x 7, (black) x 8, (orange) x 9, (Grey)x 14
→ Row 26: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 9, (black) x 7, (orange) x 9, (black) x 7, (orange) x 8, (Grey)x 14
← Row 27: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 8, (black) x 6, (orange) x 11, (black) x 6, (orange) x 9,(Grey) x 14
→ Row 28: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 8, (black) x 6, (orange) x 13, (black) x 6, (orange) x 7,(Grey) x 14
← Row 29: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 7, (black) x 5, (orange) x 15, (black) x 5, (orange) x 8,(Grey) x 14

→ Row 30: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 8, (black) x 4, (orange) x 17, (black) x 4, (orange) x 7,(Grey) x 14
← Row 31: (Grey) x 14, (orange) x 39, (Grey) x 15
→ Row 32: (Grey) x 15, (orange) x 38, (Grey) x 15
← Row 33: (Grey) x 15, (orange) x 37, (Grey) x 16
→ Row 34: (Grey) x 16, (orange) x 36, (Grey) x 16
← Row 35: (Grey) x 17, (orange) x 34, (Grey) x 17
→ Row 36: (Grey) x 17, (orange) x 34, (Grey) x 17
← Row 37: (Grey) x 18, (orange) x 31, (Grey) x 19
→ Row 38: (Grey) x 20, (orange) x 29, (Grey) x 19
← Row 39: (Grey) x 20, (orange) x 25, (Grey) x 23

→ Row 40: (Grey) x 25, (orange) x 7, (brown) x 5, (orange) x 9, (Grey) x 22
← Row 41: (Grey) x 31, (brown) x 5, (Grey) x 32
→ Row 42: (Grey) x 33, (brown) x 3, (Grey) x 32
← Row 43: (Grey) x 32, (brown) x 3, (Grey) x 33
→ Row 44: (Grey) x 33, (brown) x 3, (Grey) x 32
← Row 45: (Grey) x 33, (brown) x 3, (Grey) x 32
→ Row 46: (Grey) x 29, (brown) x 6, (Grey) x 33
← Row 47: (Grey) x 34, (brown) x 5, (Grey) x 29
→ Row 48: (Grey) x 68

And that is it! Now all you have to do is sew in those tails, and you are finished! I hope you love this pumpkin placemat as much as we do.

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