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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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Knit a Sweet Striped Vest for Kids

I’m trying to include more knits for kids in my posts because I know a lot of people do a lot of their knitting for the little ones in their lives. 

This child’s striped vest from Lion Brand Yarn is not only cute and great for kids who might find a full sweater too hot, it’s also an easy project if you’ve never knit a garment before. 

Lion Brand rates it as level 2 easy/beginner +, probably just because there’s a little shaping and seaming invovled, but it’s nothing you can’t handle. 

The pattern comes in three sizes that are meant to be for ages 6, 8 and 10. The finished chest measurement is 30, 31.5 or 33 inches, which is 76, 80 and 84 cm respectively. This makes the vest a little roomy and makes it easy to slip on over a T-shirt or other top. 

It’s worked in two pieces from the bottom up, with the neckband and armhole bands worked in the round after the body pieces are sewn together. One benefit of knitting stripes on a project like this is that it’s easier to make sure your pieces are the same length because you can just count the stripes (it’s also a little easier to seam because you’re always lining up the stripes). 

If you’re knitting the smallest size, you only need one skein each of the two colors you choose, and for the larger sizes you will only need two, making this project a pretty good value. The suggested yarn is Color Theory, a worsted weight acrylic yarn that comes in 18 relatively muted colors. Of course you can use any worsted weight yarn you like. Keep it acrylic for easy washing or use wool to make this a warmer garment for kids who live in cooler climates. 

You can grab the pattern for free from the Lion Brand website, or get a kit that includes the yarn you need (and needles if you don’t have them already). I think this would be a great basic to knit a kid for back to school in their school colors, or make it holiday with red and green, or whatever colors the child likes. 

[Photo: Lion Brand Yarn]