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Colorwork Knits for Spooky Season

September 21, 2023 by Sarah White

I guess technically these are all Halloween knitting patterns, but they are really designs that you can knit and use and enjoy all fall long. From keeping your hands and your coffee cozy to making your couch cute, these designs are easy and fun to have on hand throughout spooky season.

Speaking of Halloween coffee cozies, I know I’ve shared this one a few times through the years but I can’t help but shout out my own Halloween coffee cup cozy (which you can also find on Ravelry, where you can see all the cute faces different people have given theirs). I’m thinking of doing more of these for different holidays (finally) so if there’s something you’d like to see let me know!

The Autumn Doodle Cup Cozy pattern from Jamie Lomax on Ravelry is a little classier than mine, and a fun way to use up some leftovers from other projects. It uses DK weight yarn and has options for stitching pumpkins, bats or ghosts on the design.

Or keep it simple black and orange with the Spooky Love Mug Cozy from Elisha Costa (My Comforting Crafts on Etsy). This one uses worsted weight yarn and has a coordinating hat pattern, too, if you’ve ever dreamed of matching your coffee. I haven’t but you know that would be a perfect look for the corn maze.

Moving on to mitts for you, these super cute Spooky Season Mittens by Anna Henriksson on Ravelry are covered in mini motifs for pumpkins, witch hats, ghosts and cauldrons. They come in one size and use super fine yarn to help get all those details.

And if you’re a fan of Hocus Pocus, you’re going to want to knit this spooky seasonal pillow from While They Dream on Etsy. In addition to the bold lettering it’s adorned with a cat, bat and a couple of spiders. It’s worked in two pieces in worsted weight yarn so you can use intarsia for the colorwork.

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Fun Halloween Cowls to Knit

One of the fun things about knitters is that we will use a holiday theme on any kind of project. From Easter bunny socks to Christmas sweaters, there’s no combination of holiday motif and knitwear genre we won’t combine. 

Case in point: Halloween cowls. 

This fun cowl from Sweet Vireo Designs features large carved pumpkins and little cats and skulls. It uses two colors of DK weight yarn and I love the multicolored yarn for the background color on this one. And the braids! So cute. 

Spooky Season by Jocelyn Tunney (also on Ravelry) uses fingering weight yarn in two colors to make a design with crescent moons and eyes. There are two circumferences and two heights available so you can make it a neck hugger or a slightly bigger project if you like. 

Make more moons with the Broom Riding Cowl from Vanessa Ewing Knits. This two color pattern looks extra fun with a multicolored yarn for the colorwork, but you can use a solid as well. It calls for DK weight yarn but there is also a fingering weight version if you have some yarn in your stash you want to use. 

Jinx Made has another fun Halloween cowl, this time covered in skulls. South Philly Skulls uses DK weight yarn and comes in two lengths, and there’s also a matching hat pattern, both of which can be found on Ravelry. 

The Ghost Stories cowl from Melissa Knit Wear is a two-color cowl with ghosts of different sizes on the body. It uses DK weight yarn, and average sized skeins will allow you to get two cowls out of two skeins. It also calls for stitch markers to help you keep your place in the chart. 

Or stitch up a cowl with a giant bat on it. The Nightling Cowl from Jen Immer uses DK weight yarn in two colors and has moons and a large bat on it. This pattern can be found on Ravelry. 

How about spooky trees? The Weirwood Cowl from Andrea Krüß-Anders is inspired by the weirwood trees in the Game of Thrones books, and is worked in two colors of fingering weight yarn. You can find this free pattern on Ravelry. 

If a bandana cowl is more your thing, try Cowloween from Tellybean Knits (on Ravelry). This colorful design is worked from the top down and features pumpkins, ghosts and candy colored stripes, and is worked in a light fingering weight yarn. There are kid and adult sizes available. 

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