Halloween craft idea: Create your own Halloween Bag

For Halloween you can create your own treat bags. You can do this together with your child. First find a suitable box. I took a 12 can cola box, which was cut in half. (I made 2). Decorate the boxes with paper and cut outs. Many magazines have Halloween pumpkins on the cover. Ask your little boy or girl to make drawings and glue them on too. To make it sturdy cover it with clear tape. (This goes faster if you have wide tape). Make two holes on the side and attach a pipe cleaner to make a handle.

Have a great Trick-or-Treat !

Halloween Crochet Pattern is Now Available as e-Book for the Amazon Kindle

The crochet pattern for the Halloween Girls is now available as an e-book on Amazon: Halloween Girls - Easy Amigurumi Crochet Pattern (Little and Cute Amigurumi)

Halloween Girls: Easy Crochet Pattern for a Little Witch, Devil and Pumpkin Girl

I was asked to create a small and cute Jazzy the Witch. Here it is together with a little devil and pumpkin girl. The pattern can be bought on Etsy.

Devellish Beauty

My daughter got this little red devil to keep the bigger one company. Now she likes to have a mummy devil and a girl devil as well :) A little devillish family. The pattern for the big devil is available on this blog.

I ordered this Blythe doll from Japan and she arrived today. In March I hope to design clothes and accessories for this doll. She is very stylish. If you like to know more about Blythe Dolls:  go to Wikipedia.

Free Amigurumi Witch crochet pattern for Halloween

Little Witch

Free Amigurumi Pattern

K and J Dolls

Pattern designed by Sayjai

p.s. The book in the background of the photo above is "Witch Craft" by Quirck Books. It contains a larger "Jazzy the Good Witch" pattern designed by me. The book is available on Amazon. The Jazzy the Good Witch pattern is also available in my Etsy Store.

This pattern can be made using any yarn you wish. Choose a hook size that matches the yarn.

For materials I used: 

• 3.00 mm hook
• 4 ply yarn (cream, black and red)
• Mohair yarn (red for hair)
• Polyester fiberfill
• Two 5 mm black beads for eyes or other eyes as desired
• Tapestry needle
• Sewing needle and thread for attaching eyes 

Size: Little Witch is 4.5 inches/ 11.5 cm high

Abbreviations:

ch = chain

sc = single crochet

st = stitch

sl = slip

rnd = round

tog = together

Notes: This project is working in continuous rounds, do not join or turn unless otherwise stated.  Mark first stitch of each round.

Leg (make 2):

Rnd 1: With black, ch 2, 6 sc in second chain from hook. (6)

Rnd 2: Sc in each st around, changing to cream in last 2 loops of last st. 

Rnd 3-4: Sc in each st around. 

For first leg, join with sl st in first st. Fasten off.

For second leg, do not sl st in first st. Do not fasten off.

Head and Body:

Rnd 1: Hold legs together with upper inner thighs together. Insert hook in the center on innermost thigh of first leg, pull out the loop from second leg, sc in same st  (do not count this st just for connecting legs together), sc in next 5 sts on second leg (mark first st), sc in next 5 sts on first leg, changing to black in last 2 loops of last st. (10)

Rnd 2: (2 sc in next st, sc in next 4 sts) 2 times. (12)

Rnd 3: (Sc in next st, 2 sc in next st) around. (18)

Rnd 4: Working in back loops only. Sc in each st around. 

Rnd 5: (Sc in next st, sc next 2 sts tog) around. (12)

Rnd 6: (Sc next 2 sts tog, sc in next st) around, changing to cream in last 2 loops of last st. (8)

Rnd 7: (Sc in next st, 2 sc in next st) around. (12)

Rnd 8: (Sc in next st, 2 sc in next st) around. (18)

Rnd 9: (Sc in next 2 sts, 2 sc in next st) around. (24)

Rnd 10-13: Sc in each st around. 

Rnd 14: (Sc in next 2 sts, sc next 2 sts tog) around. (18)

Rnd 15: (Sc next 2 sts tog, sc in next st) around. Stuff. (12)

Rnd 16: Sc next 2 sts tog around, sl st in first st. Fasten off. Sew opening close. (6)

Skirt:

Rnd 1: Working in front loops of round 3 of the body and head pointed towards you. With black, join with sl st, ch 1, sc in same st, sc in each st around. (18)

Rnd 2: Sc in each st around.

Rnd 3: Sc in each st around, sl st in first st. Fasten off. 

Arm (make 2):

Rnd 1: With cream, ch 2, 5 sc in second chain from hook. (5)

Rnd 2-3: Sc in each st around.

Rnd 4: Sc in each st around, sl st in first st. Fasten off.

Sew arms to body.

Witch hat (black):

Rnd 1: With black, ch 2, 6 sc in second chain from hook. (6)

Rnd 2: Sc in each st around.

Rnd 3: (Sc in next st, 2 sc in next st) around. (9)

Rnd 4: Sc in each st around.

Rnd 5: (2 sc in next st, sc in next 2 sts) around. (12)

Rnd 6-7: Sc in each st around. 

Rnd 8: (2 sc in next st, sc in next 3 sts) around.(15)

Rnd 9: Sc in each st around.

Rnd 10: (Sc in next 4 sts, 2 sc in next st) around. (18)

Rnd 11: Sc in each st around. 

Rnd 12: (Sc in next 2 sts, 2 sc in next st) around.(24)

Rnd 13: (Sc in next 3 sts, 2 sc in next st) around. (30)

Rnd 14: Working in front loops only. (Sc in next 4 sts, 2 sc in next st) around. (36)

Rnd 15: (Sc in next 5 sts, 2 sc in next st) around, join with sl st in first st. Fasten off.(42)

Hair:

With Mohair yarn (red), cut 30 pieces of 6 “ (16 cm) long. For fringe, hold 1 strand of yarn, fold in half. With wrong side facing, insert hook in free loop of rnd 13, draw the folded end through the stitch and pull the loose ends through the folded end, draw the knot up tightly. Add fringe around.

Sew hat on head. For hair you can do the pigtails or braids as you wish.

Finishing:

Sew eyes 6 sts apart between rnds 10-11 of head. With red embroider mouth.

On FlickR is a group where you can show pictures of your finished doll:  http://www.flickr.com/groups/kandjdolls/

You can also share photos of the Little Witch you make on Ravelry. Click here for the Little Witch page on Ravelry. Ravelry is a social site for knitters.

Copyright 2010 Sayjai of K and J Dolls. All rights reserved. This is a free pattern. You are not allowed to sell this pattern. You are not allowed to distribute or publish this pattern in any form. You are not allowed to alter this pattern in any way. This pattern is provided to you freely for personal use only.

This original pattern is available on the blog of K and J Dolls: http://kandjdolls.blogspot.com

Giveaway - Chance to win this Little Witch and Witch Craft book

I've made this Witch today and I give her away!  Together with a copy of the great Witch Craft book below.

What do you have to do to win this book? You have to buy a pattern in one of my pattern stores. Anyone buying a pattern between the 11th and 17th of October has a chance to win. I will put all names in a hat and select one.

My stores are:

• kandjdolls.etsy.com  ~ Contains my original patterns including Jazzy the Good Witch
• kandjdolls2.etsy.com   ~ Contains patterns based on cartoons like Winnie the Pooh
• de.dawanda.com/shop/kandjdolls  ~ For German customers

So buy any of my patterns online and you might win the book and Little Witch.

You can read more about the Witch Craft book if you follow this link to the publisher (Quirckbooks).

p.s. the PATTERN for the little witch in the photo will be FREE and available soon.

Who won a Halloween embroidery patch?

Today we selected the winners of a Jazzy the Good Witch embroidery patch. One patch goes to Leonarda  from Italy and the 2nd to Lily and Lizzie from the U.S.A.   Congratulations!

Jazzy the Good Witch Mini Backpack Patches

Cute no? These are embroidered patches. It's Jazzy the Good Witch. You can put her on your bag or jeans. You iron them on. The plastic bottom has a glue which gets sticky when heated. Two I give away in a lottery. Send an e-mail to kandjdolls@gmail.com or comment on this post. Write which Jazzy doll or cartoon character you like me to crochet. I will put all e-mail addresses in a high hat and select 2. The 2 winners get the patch by mail all the way from Thailand.

The lottery is now closed! I will select 2 today (14 sept 2010).

The Jazzy the Good Witch crochet pattern is sold in my shop: kandjdolls.etsy.com.

The patches were given by Quirck Books. They will publish the pattern in a book called "Witch Craft".  A preview of the book is on Amazon.com Halloween is getting near!

Purple Fairy Witch

This cute blob is created by Booobamara on Raverlry (login required). The pattern used is: Pink Rabbit Monster Witch which can be downloaded from my blog. Perhaps I will use this pattern to create Barbapappa one day.

Jazzy the Witch might get Published

Quirk Books is working on a new Halloween crochet book. They asked if they can publish Jazzy the Witch in it. This is very exciting: never been published before. In bookform that is. There is something special to a hardcover (I hope it's a hardcover) book with photos of your own design. Quirk Books already published a crochet book: "Creepy Cute Crochet". I looked at the pattern notation in that book. I have to compress my Jazzy the Good Witch using the same pattern notation. It has to be less than 1500 words. Hope I can squeeze it. It's not definite yet but I hope Jazzy the Witch will get published.

Free pattern: "Pink Rabbit Monster" Finished

Click here to download a printable PDF pattern or use the pattern below.

A German translation is available on my German Blog and a Swedish translation is available on Cissi's Swedish Amigurumi Blog.

Pattern for the Pink Rabbit Monster Witch

For halloween I added a hat and broomstick.

This pattern can be made using any yarn you wish. Choose a hook size that matches the yarn

Materials:
I have used :
3.00 mm hook
4 ply yarn (Light pink, dark pink for inner ear, Red and green for hat)
Polyester fiber
Black 10 mm buttons for eyes or other eyes as desired
Tapestry needle
Sewing needle and thread for attaching eyes
Iron Wire 7 inches


Size: 6 inches tall

Abbreviations:
ch = chain
sc = single crochet
st = stitch
sl = slip
rnd = round
tog = together
hdc = half double crochet
dc = double crochet

Note: This project is working in continuous rounds, do not join or turn
unless otherwise stated. Mark first stitch of each round.

Head and Body:

Starting at the bottom of the body.

Rnd 1: With light pink, ch 2, 6 sc in second chain from hook. (6 sc made)
Rnd 2: 2 sc in each st around. (12)
Rnd 3: (Sc in next st, 2 sc in next st) around. (18)
Rnd 4: (2 sc in next st, sc in next 2 sts) around. (24)
Rnd 5: Sc in next 2 sts, 2 sc in next st, (sc in next 3 sts,
2 sc in next st) 5 times, sc in next st. (30)
Rnd 6: (Sc in next 4 sts,2 sc in next st) around.(36)
Rnd 7: (2 sc in next st, sc in next 5 sts) around. (42)
Rnd 8: Sc in next 3 sts, 2 sc in next st, (sc in next 6 sts,
2 sc in next st) 5 times, sc in next 3 sts. (48)
Rnd 9: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 10: (Sc in next 7 sts, 2 sc in next st) around. (54)
Rnd 11: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 12: Sc in next 4 sts, 2 sc in next st, (sc in next 8 sts,
2 sc in next st) 5 times, sc in next 4 sts. (60)
Rnd 13-20: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 21: (Sc in next 8 sts, sc next 2sts tog) around. (54)
Rnd 22: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 23: (Sc in next 7 sts, sc next 2 sts tog) around. (48)
Rnd 24: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 25: (Sc in next 6 sts, sc next 2 sts tog) around. (42)
Rnd 26: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 27: (Sc in next 5 sts, sc next 2 sts tog) around. (36)
Rnd 28: Sc in each st around. Stuff.
Rnd 29: (Sc in next 4 sts, sc next 2 sts tog) around. (30)
Rnd 30: (Sc in next 3 sts, sc next 2 sts tog) around. (24)
Rnd 31-36: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 37: (Sc in next 2 sts, sc next 2 sts tog) around. Stuff. (18)
Rnd 38: (Sc in next st, sc next 2 sts tog) around. (12)
Rnd 39: (Sc next 2 sts tog) around, join with sl st in first st.
Fasten off.

Foot (make 2):

Rnd 1: With light pink, ch 2, 6 sc in second chain from hook. (6 sc made)
Rnd 2: 2 sc in each st around. (12)
Rnd 3: (Sc in next st, 2 sc in next st) around. (18)
Rnd 4-12: Sc in each st around. Stuff.
Rnd 13: For first toe, sc in next 3 sts, skip next 12 sts,
sc in next 3 sts. (6)
Rnd 14: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 15: (Sc next 2 sts tog) around, join with sl st in first st.
Fasten off.
Rnd 13: For second toe, join light pink to next free st on rnd 12, ch 1,
sc in same st, sc in each of next 2 sts, skip next 6 sts,
sc in last 3 sts. (6)
Rnd 14-15: Repeat rnds 14-15 of first toe.
Rnd 13: For third toe, join light pink to next free st on rnd 12, ch 1,
sc in same st, sc in next 5 sts. (6)
Rnd 14-15: Repeat rnds 14-15 of first toe.

Sew foots to bottom of body.

Ear (make 2 light pink, 2 dark pink):

Row 1: Ch 10, sc in second chain from hook, hdc in next 2 chs,
dc in next 3 chs, hdc in next 2 chs, sc in next ch. Fasten off. (9)

Matching sts, hold 1 light pink ear and 1 dark pink ear tog, with dark pink side facing you. Join light pink with sl st at end of row 1, ch 1, sc in same st, sc in next 7 sts, (2 sc in next st) 2 times, sc in next 8 sts. Fasten off.

Sew ears to side of head on rnd 37.

Arm (make 2):

Rnd 1: With light pink, ch 2, 6 sc in second chain from hook. (6)
Rnd 2-8: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 9: 2 sc in each st around. (12)
Rnd 10-12: Sc in each st around. Stuff.
Rnd 13: Sc next 2 sts tog around. Fasten off. Sew opening closed. (6)

Sew arms to side of body over rnd 23-24.

Hat:

Rnd 1: With red, ch 2, 6 sc in second chain from hook. (6)
Rnd 2: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 3: (2 sc in next st, sc in next st) around. (9)
Rnd 4: (Sc in next 2 sts, 2 sc in next st) around. (12)
Rnd 5: (Sc in next 3 sts, 2 sc in next st) around. (15)
Rnd 6: Working in front loops only. Ch 1, reverse sc in each st around,
join with sl st in first st. Fasten off.

***Reverse sc is working from left to right, insert hook in next st to the right and complete as sc.***

Pom-pom: Wrap green around cardboard 20 times, slide loops off cardboard; tie separate strand around middle of all loops. Cut loops, trim; sew to end of hat.

Sew hat on top of head.

Witch hat (pink):

Rnd 1: With pink, ch 2, 6 sc in second chain from hook. (6)
Rnd 2: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 3: (Sc in next st, 2 sc in next st) around. (9)
Rnd 4: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 5: (2 sc in next st, sc in next 2 sts) around. (12)
Rnd 6-7: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 8: (2 sc in next st, sc in next 3 sts) around.(15)
Rnd 9: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 10:(Sc in next 4 sts, 2 sc in next st) around. (18)
Rnd 11: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 12: (Sc in next 5 sts, 2 sc in next st) around.(21)
Rnd 13-14: Sc in each st around.
Rnd 15: (Sc in next 6 sts, 2 sc in next st) around. (24)
Rnd 16: (For ear hole,Ch 3, skip 3 sts; sc in next 9 sts) 2 times.
Rnd 17: (Sc in next 3 sts, 2 sc in next st) around.(30)
Rnd 18: (Sc in next 4 sts, 2 sc in next st) around. (36)
Rnd 19: (Sc in next 5 sts, 2 sc in next st) around, join with sl st in first st. Fasten off.(42)

Sew hat on top of head.

Broom: With pink.

Part 1: Broomstick

Rnd 1: Ch 2, 6 sc in second chain from hook.(6)
Rnd 2: Working in back loops only. Sc in each st around.
Rnd 3-13: Sc in each st around, join with sl st in first st. Fasten off

Part 2 : Bristles

Cut 20 pieces of yarn, 6 inches in length. Fold the yarn in half and loop an iron wire around the center, and then twist the wire up together.

Assembly: Put the iron wire inside part 1, sew them together, tie a piece of yarn around the bristles, to make it look like a real straw broom. Trim the broom.

Finishing:

Sew eyes 3 sts apart over rnds 35-36 of head. With red, embroider mouth.

Copyright 2009 Sayjai Thawornsupacharoen. This is a free pattern. You are not allowed to sell this pattern. You are allowed to distribute this pattern and sell finished dolls based on this pattern, provided you add the following link and text:

The original pattern is available on the blog of K and J Dolls:
http://kandjdolls.blogspot.com/2009/09/free-pattern-pink-rabbit-monster.html

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