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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!

Have you read?

Get Graphic with the Snug Wrap Knitting Pattern

I don’t know if it’s possible to look at the Snug Wrap from Sylvia Watts-Cherry and not smile. There’s so much fun stuff going on in it that if I had a bunch of sport weight yarn in my house I definitely would have cast this one on immediately after seeing it.

There’s stripes and circles of different sizes and colors, worked with intarsia. The wrap is worked sideways in both garter stitch and stockinette, so different sections also have different textures. Color blocking means you’ll use a lot of two main colors, and there are two more colors used for contrast throughout the piece.

As I mentioned, the project calls for sport weight yarn, and it’s already pretty big — 23.25 by 82 inches or 59 by 208 cm — so you probably wouldn’t want to use heavier yarn unless you just want to make it a super scarf. You could use even lighter yarn to make it more of a scarf than a shawl if you wanted.

The yarn used is a combination of Merino wool and recycled threads from La Bien Aimée’s yarn making process, so it’s a fun way to reduce waste while making something awesome.

The color motifs are depicted in charts in the pattern, but none of these are difficult so even if you’re new to chart reading you should be able to handle this pattern. The colors in the sample are so pretty but you can of course change it up with your favorites that will make you smile as you knit and wear this super fun pattern.

As usual, checking out the projects tab on Ravelry will show you some more fun color options. I love the idea of using jewel tones to give it a more wintry look, but the sky is the limit when it comes to color options.

You can find this pattern on Ravelry.

[Photo: Sylvia Watts-Cherry]

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