DIY project: Bats (with FREE template)

It's almost Halloween!!! So I decided to make some decorations. As you all know I looooooove bats ;). Today was a rainy day so the perfect day for some crafting :).

This is what you need:

-black yarn
-black cardboard paper
-scissors
-pencil
-pomp-pon maker (I used the clover 65 mm but ofcourse you could also do without, as long as your finished pompon will be about 6,5 cm)
-Template bats (scroll down)
-a nice hot cup of coffee (the most important part of this DIY project I thing :) )

I am sure you all know how to use your pom-pon maker, but just in case (I had a difficult time myself figuring it out) here is some help;

After you pompon is finished, you will need a template, so here it is:

just click on the picture and print!

Now use these instructions:

Now it is time to insert your pom-pon:

Together these bats make a great mobile, or hang them in front of your window, in a tree or at your door.

With a little note attached to them, they make great invitations.

Hope you like it! Enjoy!!!

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Free pattern: Spider in jar

I have a little cat in my home, who is about to give birth. I am waiting and waiting and waiting. And when I am waiting I need to crochet! So a new project: Spider in a jar!

Materials:

*empty jar

*black/grey and orange yarn

*little black eyes

*little scrap of halloween fabric

*little orange pompoms, handmade or bought in the shop. I made them with the clover pompom maker

Abbreviations

ch - chain stitch

sc - single crochet

inc - increase

dec - decrease

* - repeat between * and *

Spider

with grey

R1: sc 6 in magic ring

R2: inc around (12)

R3: *inc, sc* repeat around (18)

R4: *inc, 2sc* repeat around (24)

R5: *inc, 3sc* repeat around (30)

R6: *inc, 4sc* repeat around (36)

R7-9: sc 36

R10: *dec, sc 4* repeat around (30)

R11: *dec, sc 3* repeat around (24)

R12: *dec, sc 2* repeat around (18)

Stuff spider

R13: *dec,sc* repeat around (12)

R14: dec around (6)

Fasten off. Glue on eyes.

Spider legs

with grey

make 8

ch 10, sc into 2nd ch from hook, sc 8, Fasten off.

Secure legs to body of spider

Little round on the bottom of the jar

With black

R1: sc 6 in magic ring

R2: inc around (12)

With orange

R3: *inc, sc* repeat around (18)

R4: *inc, 2sc* repeat around (24)

With black

R5: *inc, 3sc* repeat around (30)

R6: *inc, 4sc* repeat around (36)

With orange

R7: *inc, 5sc* repeat around (42)

R8: *inc, 2sc* repeat around (56)

R9: *inc, 6sc* repeat around (64)

With black

R10: *inc, 7sc* repeat around (72)

R11: *inc, 7sc* repeat around (81)

Fasten off.

Finishing

Put the little orange/black round on the bottom of the jar

Make a little hole in the lid of the jar. Secure a long grey yarn to your spider. Take the other side of the yarn and pull it through the hole. Now make a knot, to secure the spider. Make sure he is hanging and not touching the bottom of the jar.

Cut a little piece of halloween fabric and put it over the lid. Secure it into place with a ribbon or use of a string of 70 ch st in black yarn. At the end of the string or the ribbon, secure the two little pompoms.

Happy Halloween!