Spider jar

About the Design

This little spider jar chart captures a simple glass container with a corked lid, holding a small black spider silhouette inside. The bold outline and clean shapes give it a graphic, almost storybook quality, making it a fun seasonal motif for Halloween decor, gift tags, or a quick addition to a larger sampler.

Skill Level and Time

With only 74 stitches total on a 50 by 50 grid, this pattern is rated beginner and comes together in about half an hour, making it a great confidence-building project for newer stitchers or a fast palette cleanser between bigger works. The design relies on straightforward full cross stitches with no fractional stitches or blending, so there's nothing tricky to slow you down.

Palette and Materials

The piece uses just two colors from the full palette, keeping thread changes to a minimum while still delivering solid contrast between the jar outline, the spider, and the warm brown lid. Any standard cotton floss and 14 count Aida or evenweave fabric will work well here, and because the stitch count is so low, this pattern is an economical way to use up small scraps of floss left over from other projects. It stitches up quickly enough to finish as an ornament, patch, or small framed piece in a single sitting.