Ghost with a Pumpkin Hat – Free Halloween Amigurumi Pattern

This ghost is a white plush cone with a tiny pumpkin balanced on its head, a green leaf, and two glossy eyes set into round holes. It is about 12 cm tall in chunky yarn, worked in a spiral from the top down, and the whole thing is three pieces: leaf, pumpkin, ghost.

The interesting part is round 16: (2 sc, 2 tr) twelve times gives the scalloped hem, which is what turns a plain cone into a sheet. Round 11 does something similar on the face, with two 4-dc bobbles standing in for the eyebrows.

Every round is written out below.

What you need

• Yarn: chunky (about 4 mm) in white, orange and green
• Hook: 3.5 mm
• Safety eyes: 12 mm
• Notions: fibrefill, yarn needle, stitch marker

Abbreviations

• MR magic ring, ch chain, st stitch, sc single crochet
• hdc half double crochet, dc double crochet, tr treble crochet
• inc increase, dec decrease

Leaf (green)

Worked on a chain, and it needs a tail for sewing.

• R1: ch 9, starting in the second chain from the hook: 8 inc (16)

Fasten off, leaving a tail for sewing.

Pumpkin (orange)

• R1: 8 sc in MR (8)
• R2: 8 inc (16)
• R3–6: 16 sc (16) — 4 rounds
• R7: 8 dec (8)

Fasten off, sew all the loops together, then pull the top and the bottom towards each other and divide the work into four parts of four stitches, sewing each one to make the slices.

Ghost (white)

• R1: 8 sc in MR (8)
• R2: 8 inc (16)
• R3: (sc, inc) x8 (24)
• R4: (2 sc, inc) x8 (32)
• R5: 32 sc (32)
• R6: (3 sc, inc) x8 (40)
• R7: 40 sc (40)
• R8: 17 sc, mark the eye, 6 sc, mark the eye, 17 sc (40)
• R9: 40 sc (40)
• R10: (9 sc, inc) x4 (44)
• R11: 16 sc, 4-dc bobble, 10 sc, 4-dc bobble, 16 sc (44)
• R12–13: 44 sc (44) — 2 rounds

Pause here: attach the eyes at the marked points, and sew the pumpkin on top. Then continue.

• R14: 5 sc, inc, (10 sc, inc) x3, 5 sc (48)
• R15: 48 sc (48)
• R16: (2 sc, 2 tr) x12 (48)
• R17: (4 sc, dec) x8 (40)
• R18: (3 sc, dec) x8 (32)
• R19: (2 sc, dec) x8 (24)

Fill with fibrefill.

• R20: (sc, dec) x8 (16)
• R21: 8 dec (8)

Fasten off, sew through all the loops and hide the end.

Assembly

1. Sew the leaf to the pumpkin.
2. Sew the pumpkin to the top of the ghost, between R1 and R2.
3. Attach the eyes at the marks from R8, pushing through the two layers.
4. Shape the hem with your fingers so the treble scallops point outwards.

Notes

The treble round is where most people go wrong: two trebles in a row make a wide, flat scallop, so keep them loose and do not pull the chain tight afterwards. In a thinner yarn, drop to hdc instead of tr and the hem will still read as a sheet.

More ghosts and pumpkins: the Halloween Ghost Puppy is the costume version, the ribbed mini pumpkin is the fast pumpkin, and One-Eyed Monster is the big plush one. Everything is on the patterns page.

Pattern source: ghost with a pumpkin hat, as shared by the original designer on the amigurumi pattern blogs.

A hat that is the shape of the toy: Christmas Gnome wears a 90-stitch tree held up by wire.