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Halloween Costumes to Knit for Your Cat

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In last week’s roundup of patterns for dogs, I promised I would share some Halloween knitting patterns for cats this week. While they might have been a little harder to find, they make up for it in cuteness, and how much it tends to annoy a cat when you dress it up in clothes.

Spindles and Spices wins the award for the best and largest number of cat knitting patterns that I can find anywhere. She has a whole series of international themed hats for cats, including:

 

Now I could have stopped looking right there and been pretty happy, but here are a few more options.

Why not a Harry Potter house scarf from GuenKnits? Or a knit bow tie from Channeling Madame Defarge? (Watch kitty carefully with things around his neck, of course.)

A witch hat? (That’s from Barbra Szabrowicz.) Or a cat’s mane? (Mer Almagro.)

And if you’re willing to pay for a pattern, which you should be with all this cuteness, Lindsey Smith also has a Santa hat, bear costume and frog costume for cats (and more for crocheters, so check those out, too, if you’re comfortable with that craft).

Have you ever or would you ever make a costume for your cat? I’d love to hear about it!

 

Looking for more things to Knit for Halloween? Check out these Halloween Knitting patterns we found on Etsy.

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  1. I’d make that lion’s mane in a heartbeat for our ginger boy…that is, if I think he’d put up with it!

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Christmas Stocking Knitting Patterns for Your Pets

I’ve shared a lot of Christmas stocking knitting patterns over the years (see posts 1, 2, 3 for example) but what if you want to knit a stocking for a non-human member of your family. If you’re looking for Christmas stocking knitting patterns for your cats or dogs, this is the post for you.

These large paw print stockings are perfect for either dogs or cats, so they’re great to knit if you have both. They are worked in the round using DK weight yarn, and the stocking measures about 17 inches/43 cm from the top to the heel. You can get the pattern from nicolaluke.

The K4 Project has a super cute Kitty Christmas stocking pattern, which is worked in worsted weight yarn. They also have a dog version, or you can buy both and get a discount if you have both dogs and cats to knit for. Both projects have two patterns, showing how to work the stockings flat or in the round.

Put your dog into a Christmas scene with this stocking pattern from ifanhourChild. It shows a dog in a dog house in the snow, and has room for the dog’s name at the top. It’s worked flat using worsted weight yarn and the pattern includes charts for many small and medium dog breeds (there’s a separate listing for bigger dogs) so you can stitch a dog that looks like yours.

Annie’s Woolens has both dog and cat stocking knitting patterns that are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round. You can change up the colors to suit your pet if you want, and they come with an alphabet chart for personalization. Or you can stick with holiday colors and buy a kit to make the dog or cat stocking.

Waiting for Santa Paws is a pattern from Kate Agner on Ravelry that would be cute for a dog or a cat. It looks like a leg with a paw print on the bottom part of the foot and more paw prints running around the top of the leg. This is a great option if you don’t want to mess with a heel turn because it doesn’t have a heel, because dogs and cats don’t have heels so why would their stockings?

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