SpooKitties

Inspired by my favorite animal (cats) and my favorite holiday (Halloween), came the SpooKitties! I also sometimes call them “ChonKitties” because of their chonky shape. This is still one of my favorite spooky plushies I’ve made!

Here’s the behind the scenes video of how I made the candy corn cat and the behind the scenes video on the witchy cat.

For one of the cats, I thought the shape of its body could double as a candy corn, so I definitely wanted to make a candy corn version. Since candy corn is white on the top, I thought it could be a white cat with an orange and yellow sweater.

Although in my original concept sketch, I didn’t give them arms or legs, I realized that to really give off the sweater vibe, I should make little nubs in the white color. This was also the first time I utilized bobbles for a plushie pattern.

My Spookitty concept sketch!

The head looked a little empty, so I wanted to put something on the head! I thought about candy pumpkins, which seemed perfect for the color scheme.

Of course, black cats are already a symbol of spooky season, so I had to make a black cat version! Fun fact, one of the reasons that I really started loving cats was because of a black kitten named “Spooky!” I gave it a witch hat as well since the candy corn cat had a pumpkin on its head.

Then it was onto testing! Here are the cats made by my 9 wonderful testers.

You can now make a spooKitty too with my PDF crochet pattern! Find the pattern here or on Etsy! You can also get this pattern and all my other premium patterns by joining my Patreon.

This crochet pattern is written in US terms. A basic understanding of crochet skills and terminology is needed to follow this pattern. It is automatically available for download after purchase!

I hope you enjoy making these kitties as much as I did

And if you post your kitty on social media, don’t forget to tag me, so I can see them too :)

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