Is there anything better than cute Halloween decorations?? Yes! Cute, DURABLE Halloween decorations – ones that won’t break in a move and you don’t have to keep out of reach of little ones. Start your durable collection with my free crochet ghosts pattern.
Pattern Notes
This pattern is made up of three ghosts – big, medium, and small. They’re all made using continuous rounds. Using medium weight yarn and a size 4 crochet hook, the big ghost measures 7 inches tall, the medium ghost measures 5.5 inches tall, and the small ghost measures 4.5 inches tall.
You could play around with yarn and hook size to get bigger or smaller ghosts. How firmly you stuff them will also impact the over al height. I like to stuff mine firmly!
I made the faces for the ghosts using safety eyes and black fabric paint. You could also embroider faces using black yarn or cut and glue black felt.
Stitches and Abbreviations
Here are the crochet stitches and abbreviations I use. Click on them if you need a refresher on how to do any of these.
- magic ring – mr
- single crochet – sc
- slip stitch – slst
- increase – inc
- decrease – dec
- double crochet – dc
- BLO – back loops only
Any parts of the pattern written in brackets [ ] will tell you that this part needs to be repeated. It will be followed by an ‘x’ to let you know how many times it should be repeated.
Materials
- size 4 crochet hook
- scissors
- needle for weaving in ends
- white yarn
- fiberfill for stuffing
- safety eyes
- black fabric paint for the face (or black yarn or black felt)
Crochet Ghosts Pattern
All three ghosts consist of a body, two arms, and a fringe around the bottom. The arms and the fringe are the same for all three ghosts.
I used black fabric paint to add the face details onto the ghosts. You could also embroider them or use felt. Feel free to copy what I did for the ghosts faces or mix it up!
Big Ghost Body
Using white yarn, create a magic ring.
Round 1: 3 sc in mr (3)
Round 2: sc around (3)
Round 3: inc, 2 sc (4)
Round 4: inc, 3 sc (5)
Round 5: inc, sc, dec, sc (5)
Round 6: inc, 4 sc (6)
Round 7: inc x 6 (12)
Round 8: [inc, sc] x 6 (18)
Round 9: sc around (18)
Round 10: [sc, inc, sc] x 6 (24)
Round 11: [3 sc, inc] x 6 (30)
Round 12: sc around (30)
Round 13: [2 sc, inc, 2 sc] x 6 (36)
Rounds 14-36: sc around (36)
Round 37: in BLO [2 sc, dec, 2 sc] x 6 (30)
If you’re adding safety eyes, go ahead and add them now. Place them 7 stitches apart between rounds 15 and 16. Stuff the ghost now as well.
Round 38: [3 sc, dec] x 6 (24)
Round 39: [sc, dec, sc] x 6 (18)
Round 40: [dec, sc] x 6 (12)
Round 41: dec x 6 (6)
Fasten off. Weave the end around the stitches of the last row, and pull tight to close the hole. Hide the end.
Make two arms and sew them onto the body. I sewed mine to round 21 with about 5 stitches between them. Add the fringe to the front loops of round 37. The pattern for the arms and the fringe can be found at the end after the small ghost body.
Add face details using black fabric paint or whatever else you prefer. For my large ghost, I added a mouth and eyelashes.
Medium Ghost Body
Using white yarn, create a magic ring.
Round 1: 3 sc in mr (3)
Round 2: sc around (3)
Round 3: inc, 2 sc (4)
Round 4: inc, 3 sc (5)
Round 5: inc, sc, dec, sc (5)
Round 6: inc, 4 sc (6)
Round 7: inc x 6 (12)
Round 8: [inc, sc] x 6 (18)
Round 9: sc around (18)
Round 10: [sc, inc, sc] x 6 (24)
Round 11: [3 sc, inc] x 6 (30)
Rounds 12-30: sc around (30)
Round 31: in BLO [3 sc, dec] x 6 (24)
If you’re adding safety eyes, go ahead and add them now. Place them 7 stitches apart between rounds 13 and 14. Stuff the ghost now as well.
Round 32: [sc, dec, sc] x 6 (18)
Round 33: [dec, sc] x 6 (12)
Round 34: dec x 6 (6)
Fasten off. Weave the end around the stitches of the last row, and pull tight to close the hole. Hide the end.
Make two arms and sew them onto the body. I sewed mine to round 18 with about 3 stitches between them. Add the fringe to the front loops of round 31. The pattern for the arms and the fringe can be found at the end after the small ghost body.
Add face details using black fabric paint or whatever else you prefer. For my medium ghost, I only added a mouth.
Small Ghost Body
Using white yarn, create a magic ring.
Round 1: 3 sc in mr (3)
Round 2: sc around (3)
Round 3: inc, 2 sc (4)
Round 4: inc, 3 sc (5)
Round 5: inc, sc, dec, sc (5)
Round 6: inc, 4 sc (6)
Round 7: inc x 6 (12)
Round 8: [inc, sc] x 6 (18)
Round 9: sc around (18)
Round 10: [sc, inc, sc] x 6 (24)
Rounds 11-24: sc around (24)
Round 25: in BLO [sc, dec, sc] x 6 (18)
If you’re adding safety eyes, go ahead and add them now. Place them 6 stitches apart between rounds 11 and 12. Stuff the ghost now as well.
Round 26: [dec, sc] x 6 (12)
Round 27: dec x 6 (6)
Fasten off. Weave the end around the stitches of the last row, and pull tight to close the hole. Hide the end.
Make two arms and sew them onto the body. I sewed mine to round 16 with about 3 stitches between them. Add the fringe to the front loops of round 25.
Add face details using black fabric paint or whatever else you prefer. For my small ghost, I made eyes and a mouth.
Arms
With white yarn, create a magic ring.
Round 1: 6 sc in mr (6)
Rounds 2-5: sc around (6)
Fasten off leaving a tail for attaching.
Fringe
Attach the yarn to any of the exposed front loops of the round that was worked in BLO. For the big ghost that was round 37, for the medium ghost that was round 31, and for the small ghost that was round 25.
Slst, skip a loop, 5 dc in the next loop, skip a stitch loop. This creates one shell.
[skip a loop, 5 dc in next loop, skip a loop, slst] repeat all the way around the ghost to create shells all along the bottom
Place your last slst in the loop you started in. Fasten off and hide the end.
Now that you’ve completed the free crochet ghosts pattern, use them to decorate for Halloween! Or let your kids play with them. That’s what usually ends up happening with my decorations!
Happy Halloween!
