The Stitch Pattern / Premade patterns
Halloween Pumpkin
A carved jack-o’-lantern grinning under a full moon, with two bats crossing the sky. Six colours, whole stitches only, and it frames at about eight inches square.
Open this pattern Free — chart, floss list and printable PDF
The chart
- 40 × 31 stitches, 436 of them worked, the other 804 left as bare fabric.
- 6 DMC colours, about 6 skeins in total.
- Whole cross stitches only — no backstitch, no fractional stitches, nothing to unpick at midnight.
Finished size
| Fabric | Inches | Centimetres |
|---|---|---|
| 11-count Aida | 3.6 × 2.8 in | 9 × 7 cm |
| 14-count Aida | 2.9 × 2.2 in | 7 × 6 cm |
| 16-count Aida | 2.5 × 1.9 in | 6 × 5 cm |
| 18-count Aida | 2.2 × 1.7 in | 6 × 4 cm |
Add three inches all round for hooping and framing: on 14-count that means cutting about 9 × 9 inches.
Floss list
| Colour | Name | Stitches | Skeins |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMC 970 | Pumpkin, Light | 172 | 1 |
| DMC 550 | Violet, Very Dark | 80 | 1 |
| DMC 310 | Black | 76 | 1 |
| DMC 946 | Burnt Orange, Medium | 50 | 1 |
| DMC 743 | Yellow, Medium | 48 | 1 |
| DMC 986 | Forest Green, Very Dark | 10 | 1 |
Skein counts include a 20% margin, because running out of a dye lot halfway through is the one mistake you cannot stitch your way out of.
Make it yours
Open the pattern and every square is editable: repaint any stitch, swap a shade for one of the other 455 on the DMC card, or erase parts back to bare fabric. The printable PDF is built from whatever is on screen when you download it.