A crochet costume is the kind of Halloween make that gets used: the photos, the party, the walk around the block for candy, and then it goes in a box for the next little one. These 14 free patterns run from a baby’s first costume to witch hats in adult sizes, with a few small extras you can finish in an evening if October gets away from you.
Every pattern here is free on the designer’s own website. Where we have written about a pattern before, the link takes you to our post first, with the materials list, and from there to the designer.
In this list: Full costumes · Hats · Little extras · Before you start
Full costumes
1. Baby Witch Costume
The whole outfit is here: a striped dress, a pointed hat, little shoes and a broom to hold. Melissa Hassler wrote it in sizes 0–3 and 3–6 months, in worsted weight yarn with 4.5 mm and I/5.5 mm hooks, so it is made for a baby’s first Halloween.
See the materials and get the free pattern →
2. Cheshire Cat Baby Costume
A pink and purple striped dress and a cat-ear hat, after the grinning cat from Alice in Wonderland. The dress comes in 0–3 and 3–6 months and the hat is written for all sizes, so a big brother or sister can match. Worsted weight yarn and an I/5.5 mm hook.
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3. Rainbow Brite Costume
For anyone who grew up in the ’80s: a blue Rainbow Brite dress with a yellow star and a hat with yarn hair. The dress is worked top down in the round, in sizes 0–3 and 3–6 months, in worsted weight yarn in red, orange, yellow, blue, purple and white.
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4. Crochet Cupcake Costume
A pink frosting top with sprinkles, built around a kid-size hula hoop (the designer used a 25-inch one) and worked in Bernat Blanket yarn, so it grows fast. The designer wears hers in the photo; for a child, she suggests worsted weight yarn and a smaller hook.
Get the free pattern on Repeat Crafter Me’s website →
Hats
5. Pumpkin Hat with Earflaps
An orange hat with a stem, curly vines and earflaps, written for babies, toddlers and adults. You need H/5 mm and I/5.5 mm hooks and worsted weight yarn in orange, brown and green.
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6. Puff Stitch Pumpkin Beanie
Rows of puff stitches make the pumpkin’s ridges. The free version on Amy’s site is the 3–6 month size; the pattern with every size is sold in her shop. You need to be comfortable with the puff stitch, and her page shows how.
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7. Skull Hat
Diana could find skull motifs but no pattern that joined them into a hat, so she wrote her own: a band of skulls around a beanie, sized for adults and kids.
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8. Spider Pom-Pom Hat
An orange beanie with a black pom-pom spider on top, finished with wiggly eyes and pipe-cleaner legs. It is written for beginners and uses a 5 mm hook.
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9. Halloween Witch Hat
Two strands of worsted weight yarn held together give this hat a firm brim and a tall point that stands up on its own. It is worked from the top down in six sizes, toddler to adult large, with a 5 mm (H) hook.
Get the free pattern on Oombawka Design’s website →
10. Hedge Witch Hat
A witch hat in half double crochet and worsted weight yarn, put together with the designer’s Switchback Join. Add a band, a brooch or felt flowers to make it your own.
Get the free pattern on Morale Fiber’s website →
Little extras
11. Mary Hooded Shawl
An oversized hooded scarf, about 24 by 86 inches, in a lace checkerboard pattern with a J/6 mm hook, so it works up quickly. Make it in red and it is a Little Red Riding Hood costume that stays warm on a cold trick-or-treat night.
Get the free pattern on With Alex’s website →
12. Candy Corn Bow
A 3-inch candy corn bow tie that takes about 2 yards of each color and an I/5.5 mm hook. Pin it to a collar or a headband, or to the dog’s harness.
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13. Candy Corn Earrings
Tiny stuffed candy corns in size 10 crochet thread with a 1.8 mm hook, finished with jump rings and ear wires.
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14. Sally Skulls Earrings
Little skulls in size 10 thread with a 2.25 mm hook. Add the bow to the bottom and they turn into a dapper pair.
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Before you start
Measure the head, not the age. Size names like “3–6 months” or “adult” are averages. Measure around the head just above the ears and choose the size whose finished hat is about an inch smaller, so it stays on through a whole evening.
Make a gauge swatch for the dresses. A baby dress that comes out too small cannot be worn, and a few rows with your own yarn and hook will tell you before you have made the whole thing.
Plan for the cold. Trick-or-treating is often chilly. The pumpkin hat has earflaps and the Mary shawl has a hood, so both work with a warm coat underneath.
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