Hi! You can make this costume in any worsted weight yarn that gets gauge – a cotton, acrylic or polyester would work. I did the onesie in Lion Brand’s Feels Like Butta yarn and it worked really well as a substitute. While I sewed the ears that the girls are wearing in this video, you can easily make your bat ears without sewing.

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You will need more than one ball of yarn to complete this. Instructions call for 3 balls at 100g each. You only have to draw one wing because you will cut your fabric on the fold, which will create two wings that are still connected.) I have a color question. I see on the list of materials that there are 2 colors. I don’t see any instructions for color changes though. Do you work with both colors at once or are parts of the costume made from each color? Thank you for the help. Fold the fabric in half length-wise so that the center fold of the fabric is lined up with the vertical edge of your wing pattern. Oh where does the time go? It seems like just yesterday we brought this little guy home from the hospital and now he is nine months old!! I took these pictures over the summer when he was smaller but time has just flown by so fast.I made each ear by sewing together two triangles of fabric, turning inside out and sliding over the top of wire-framed ear shapes I had attached to a headband.

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Cut a small rectangle out of the center of the top of the fabric, about half the measurement of their arm circumference deep, to make a space for the child’s head. Row 8: Ch 3, (2 dc in next dc, dc in next 6 dc, ch 2) twice, dc in next 6 dc, 2 dc in next dc, turn – 24 sts. I originally published this post in 2015 and I’ve updated it recently to answer several readers’ questions and add more detailed steps on how to make the bat wings. You can see more photos of our girls wearing their DIY bat costumes that year in our 2015 Halloween Photos. My first great grandson will be born in mid-October and my granddaughter wants a bat outfit for him. I love your little onsie and so did she. To knit this in a newborn size, how and where would you adapt it? I am also thinking in terms of making it into a cocoon rather than as a onsie, so I plan to put a drawstring at the bottom rather than snaps. Row 11: Ch 3, (dc in next 9 dc, 2 dc in next dc, ch 2) twice, dc in next 9 dc, 2 dc in next dc, turn – 33 sts.

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Row 6: Ch 3, (2 dc in next dc, dc in next 4 dc, ch 2) twice, dc in next 4 dc, 2 dc in next dc, turn – 18 sts. I am a member and had already gone to the library. All I can find is the pattern for the onesie. No bat hat pattern.

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I love designing baby things, though, and even when we don’t have a baby in the house I will still keep making baby items. I’ll just have to find someone else’s little one to model for me! You just want to be sure you have enough snaps to get the crotch area and the shoulder seam (two for the shoulder and three for the crotch) with enough area left around them to attach.

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Hi Jamie! Yes, the armhole shaping is right above the last row you crocheted. You are just shaping where the sleeve will fit. 🙂