Knitting Patterns – Knit Costumes for Halloween

October 4, 2013 by Sarah White 3 Comments

After reading Knit Your Own Moustache I started thinking about different ways you can add knitting to costumes for Halloween or any occasion that might call for dressing up. And of course there are a lot of options out there.

Here are a few.

A crown is a great addition to a lot of different costumes. I have instructions for a custom-fit crown over at About; you can also find a cute felted one at Lion Brand Yarn’s website.

Knitty has been a great contributor to the knit costume world through the years. I have always loved the Hallowig by Meagan Reardon, and Jennifer Tallapaneni’s angel wings known as Allete are pretty gorgeous, too.

This kid’s chainmail hauberk is amazing, as is the knitting chain mail hood for men (that one’s a PDF, by the way). If you have a little geek in your family, you’ll want to check out the Baby Link outfit, which you could also see as a baby Robin Hood, I suppose.

More adorableness for little kids includes this knit ladybug pattern from DROPS and the knit lamb by Margot Stevens (Ravelry download). These sweet cat ears are pretty excellent, too, and kids will love them for dress up all year.

I cannot get over the vintage men’s bathing suit pattern translated by Vintage Purls (or the bravery of this male model!).

And sometimes you just need a quick little knit addition to make it’s own costume or to add to other stuff. For those instances I offer the Viking hat, brain slug, fu manchu, steampunk hat and witch hands. You’re welcome.

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

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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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