10 Ghoulish Halloween Knitting Patterns
As the leaves change color and fall from trees, it's time to start thinking about pumpkin spice lattes, hay bales in fields, and all things Halloween. With that in mind, here are 10 patterns for knitters who want to get into the holiday spirit with their crafting skills. Happy knitting!
If you’re looking for free Halloween knitting patterns, check out projects #1, 2, 6, 7, 8, and 9 in this post.
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10 Ghoulish Halloween Knitting Patterns
#1. Halloween Ghost Hat Free Knitting Pattern
Knit one of these little ghost Halloween hats for every member of your family! This free knitting pattern comes in sizes baby, toddler, children, women and men. You’ll be making hats for everyone you know!
Uses aran weight yarn
Created by Tara Marie at Fox and Pine Stitches
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#2. A Little Hocus Pocus Socks Free Knitting Pattern
Knitting socks is a little like making magic with knitting needles. The cable stitch in this pattern is fun and easy, once you get the hang of it! So grab your sparkly, halloween inspired sock yarns and make some hocus pocus!
A few notes about this pattern, the instructions are for knitting the socks using the magic loop method (easily adaptable for dpns) the cable is charted only.
Uses fingering weight yarn
Designed by This Handmade Life
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#3. Let’s Boo-gie Halloween Sweater Knitting Pattern
Let’s all knit woolly ghosts for Halloween! This whimsical, stranded colorwork pattern is sized from tweens through adults.
Let’s Boo-gie is worked top-down as a round yoke, colorwork sweater. The body features a simple eyelet pattern (easily switched for plain stockinette if you prefer) with colorwork at the sleeves and hem.
Uses DK weight yarn
Designed by Katie Franceschi
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#4. Night Creatures Mittens Knitting Pattern
These mittens are knit in the round from the bottom up. The body of the mitten and thumb gusset are knit as one, with thumb stitches left on scrap yarn. Thumb stitches are then picked up and knit after the body of the mitten is finished. After the outer shell is knit, stitches are picked up from the inside edge of the I-cord cast-on and the lining is knit.
Uses sport weight yarn for exterior and lace weight yarn for lining
Designed by Adrian Bizilia
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#5. Bats Sweater Knitting Pattern
This pattern is knitted bottom up to make the stranded work easier, but the colorwork is still a challenge. I mixed stranded with intarsia where it made sense. The bats benefit with extra support that stranded work gives.
Uses sport weight yarn
Designed by Natalie Meredith
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#6. Boo the Bat Toy Knitting Pattern
Boo’s favorite word is… BOO!
Boo’s second-favorite word? YAHTZEE!
This little bat is a quick knit featuring wraparound wings and feet that can hang from your finger or the nearest tree branch.
Techniques include knitting in the round on double-pointed needles, picking up stitches, and mattress stitch.
Finished size: about 4” tall; wingspan is about 8” wide.
Uses worsted weight yarn
Designed by Anna Hrachovec
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#6. Witch Cat Hat Free Knitting Pattern
Meow! This isn’t an ordinary cat hat; it’s a black Halloween cat hat! Rows of stranded colorwork create a band of spooky cats. Cat heads adorn the crown of the hat.
Uses DK weight yarn
Designed by Christine de Savoie
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#7. Spice & Clove Knit and Crochet Pumpkins Free Pattern
Clove is the crochet pattern and Spice is the knit version of these cute harvest pumpkins. This is a great beginner pattern with written pattern instructions for both the knit and crochet versions, and includes photos illustrating how to create those chubby little ridges.
These little fellas are the perfect size to perch on a book shelf or to add into a little tabletop tableau (the knit Spice pumpkin has a 10.5” circumference and the crochet Clove pumpkin has a 13.5” circumference).
Sizes Included: 10.5-13.5” circumference x 2.5-3” high
Designed by Hannah Maier
Uses sport weight yarn
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#8. Happy Haunts Socks Free Knitting Pattern
This is more of a “recipe” than a full pattern. Previous sock knitting knowledge will be needed.
These are knit toe-up, but with the charted ghost pattern included, you could easily knit them cuff down!
Included in “recipe” is my go to rounded toe instructions and the charts for the ghosts for the foot and leg. No instructions are given for the heel. Just use your favorite!
These fit a woman’s medium foot US 8-9 but with using different needle sizes and with varying tensions that we each individually have, smaller and larger sizes could be made.
Uses fingering weight yarn
Designed by Valorie Wibbens
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#9. To Humiliate the Dog Halloween Costume Free Knitting Pattern
Every dog needs a humiliating hat, and this one surely is easy to make. The tube is knitted in round and the ears are crocheted.
Feel free to get experimental with this hat idea. How about rabbit ears, or maybe a fruit basket? The possibilities are limitless. If you come up with something as funny as this, make a pattern for it and submit it to Ravelry.
Uses bulky weight yarn
Designed by Amoena Online
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#10. Little Witch and Cat Set Halloween Knitting Pattern
Little Witches with Black Cats and Brooms seem to go hand-in-hand with October. I think you’ll love working up this adorable Halloween-ish set. The witch is worked from the bottom-up and seamlessly. The arms are picked up and knit on to the body. The hat is worked from the bottom-up and the brim is picked up and worked on from the cast on edge. The cat is worked seamlessly from the bottom-up. The ears and tail are picked up and knit on to the head and body. The broom is worked from the top-down in one-piece.
Finished measurements
Little Witch: Measures 6-inches tall including the hat
Black Cat: 2 ½ inches tall
Broom: 4-inches in length
Uses fingering weight yarn
Designed by Susan B. Anderson
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