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Tutorial: Candy corn pillowcase trick or treat bag

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Tutorial: Candy cane pillowcase trick or treat bag

Tutorial: Candy cane pillowcase trick or treat bag

Go old school with your trick or treat bag this year and use a pillowcase to collect candy.  But don’t leave it plain.  You can make it festive for Halloween by dying it to look like candy corn. Angela Daniels from Guilty Crafter shares a tutorial at The RIT Studio showing how to do it.  Or, if your child already has a favorite trick or treat bag, you could use your candy corn pillowcase as an actual pillowcase.

Click the link below to go to the tutorial:

Candy Corn Treat Bag Pillowcase, by Guilty Crafter

[photo from Guilty Crafter on The RIT Studio]

Looking for more DIY sewing patterns to make your own trick or treat bags for Halloween? Check these Sewing patterns out on Etsy. for other styles of Cany trick-or-treat bags,   and these other articles we wrote featuring more ideas and free patterns trick-or-treat bags.

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The Holly Jolly Hat from Rosie Posie Knit Co on Etsy gives you lots of options, with four different sizes for babies through adults and two different options for the main colorwork — reindeer or coffee/hot chocolate mugs. The pattern also includes trees and snowflakes. They’re made with worsted weight yarn in four colors.

The Holiday Doodle Hat by Jamie Lomax (found on Ravelry) is similar in style but with different kinds of motifs worked in DK weight yarn. The pattern includes five pages of colorwork motifs so you can mix and match colors and designs to make totally unique hats. It’s sized for toddlers, bigger kids and adults, and you could also use the motifs to make a loop scarf or cowl if you wanted.

This is an old pattern but a classic re-creation of the moose hat Kevin McCallister wears in the movie Home Alone from designer VRock Knits. The pattern uses DK weight yarn in two colors and is made to fit a smallish adult head. The colorwork is presented in a chart.

Technically this one reads Christmas, since it is a Christmas pudding hat, but I couldn’t resist sharing it because it makes me smile. It’s from Etsy seller Arty Crafty Alice and is sized for little ones from preemie up to around age 3.

The chunky reindeer on these hats from Patternery are easy and quick to stitch up. Worked in super bulky yarn, you have the option of making this a roll-brimmed hat or knitting ribbing, and you can make it snow across the top of the hat if you want.