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Knitting Patterns – Knit a Scary Critter for Halloween

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I was browsing around the Halloween knitting patterns on Ravelry and I came across a bunch of really cute, sometimes a little creepy, creatures and characters you can knit to decorate your home. Here are a few of my favorites!

Looking for more Halloween Knitting patterns? Check these out on Etsy.

This Halloween witch from the Purl Bee is really cute, with green skin and a black dress. My daughter is talking about being a witch for Halloween, so I might just have to knit her one of these!

Julie L. Anderson’s Halloween Ghost is adorable as well, and pretty darn quick and easy to boot.

Eteri Khodonashvili has a somewhat creepy Halloween Ghost Dog that’s a great choice for hiding in the pumpkins or using to startle someone. (You could totally make it with normal eyes, too, if you wanted.)

The Halloween Spider Family from Christine Grant at Mad Monkey Knits is a lot of fun. They’re great in all different colors or make them black and red for extra creep factor.

Chauncey by Blackrayne is a felted skull who would probably get along quite well with those spiders. If you have a tombstone scene anywhere in your decor, these two projects are musts.

The Little Vampire by Justjen Knits is another one where something scary has gone cute. The tiny cape is my favorite. And the Tiny Halloween Witch by Mrs. Lettice Weasel (if that is your real name…) is another tiny treat for a kid in your life or just to knit for fun.

Phoeny’s Mascot House Bats are a perfect touch for a Harry Potter fan, but if you don’t happen to have any Slytherin yarn lying around, you could make the bodies solid, or any color stripe you like.

And Natural Suburbia’s knit cat is totally cute and unscary, but you could knit it in Halloween colors for some adorably irresistible decor.

Have you ever knit a creature of the night for Halloween? I’d love to hear about it.

And make sure you check out my pattern roundups from seasons past: I have pumpkin-shaped hats, Halloween-themed washcloths and candy-corn colored projects. Enjoy!

Knit some spooky (and cute) creatures for Halloween.

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Classic Dishcloth Knitting Patterns

Fall will be here before we know it, and that means there are holidays coming right behind where we might be entertaining at home. It’s always fun to have a hand knit touch in your home for other people to see, and if you’re going to be in the kitchen all day you might as well have some nice knit dish cloths to use. 

I love this little plaid hand towel from Darling Jadore. Use a little bit of leftover cotton yarn from another project for the plaid portion. It looks like the horizontal stripes are worked as you knit and the vertical stripes are done with duplicate stitch, making this a quick and easy project even newer knitters can make. 

Combine garter stitch and an easy eyelet pattern worked sideways to make the Annette Dish Towel from Cluck Cluck Boots, which is meant to be reminiscent of flour sack towels. It calls for DK weight yarn and you can work it in one color or two (or even three!). 

Add a little more texture with this set of kitchen towels from Whileberry Creative. They’re mostly worked in garter stitch with borders in easy knit/purl patterns, and you can work them in sport or worsted weight yarn. 

Two of Wands Shop has another cute allover knit and purl pattern they call the Seersucker Textured Tea Towel. It’s an easy repeating pattern worked in worsted weight yarn, and there’s a chart in the pattern you can use, but don’t have to, if you want to practice knitting from a chart. 

The Classic Cloth dish towel from Handmade Home by Connie is another one that can use a little leftover yarn in a contrasting color, or you could color block it our use stripes throughout the pattern. This one uses worsted weight yarn and another easy repeating knit purl stitch pattern. 

If you like to hang your towel on the oven handle or elsewhere but it’s always falling off, try the Stay Put kitchen towel from Fancy Step Knits. This project is worked in garter stitch and includes a hole partway through so you can pull the towel through itself over a rod or handle. Stripes are optional but a nice addition.