To knit your spider, you can use any type of yarn and corresponding DPNs. You can manage with four DPNs, but five makes life much easier.

I think I had the best results with crochet thread (Aunt Lydia’s Fashion Size 3) and size 1 DPNs (2.25 mm.)

Sock yarn worked out just as well for making a roughly three inch spider. You could easily scale them up by using sport or worsted weight yarn and larger beads.

Other supplies are yarn scraps or polyfill for stuffing, white floss or crochet thread for the spider’s fangs, eight beads for the eyes, and beading thread.

The spider is knit in separate parts: the abdomen, head, palps, and eight legs. All of these parts are then stitched together.

Techniques: Knit-in-the-Round, Cast On (CO), Knit (K), Purl (P) Knit Front and Back (Kfb), Knit Two Together (K2tog), Pick Up Stitches (PU), I-Cord, Black Yarn (B), Contrasting Yarn (C)