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Make a spooky little friend with this Knitted Halloween Bat Free Pattern. Grab your yarn, pick up your needles, and start knitting today!
Bats and Halloween go hand in hand, so why not turn this spooky symbol into a handmade knitting project? You can make everything from tiny bat toys to decorations you can display all month long with the right design. This collection of knitted Halloween bat free patterns brings together fun projects for different skill levels.
Knitted Halloween Bat Free Patterns
1. Halloween Bats Ornament
This Halloween Bats Ornament knitting pattern by MurisKnits is a fun way to make small bat decorations. The pattern uses light/DK-weight yarn for the body and feet and sparkly yarn for the wings and ears, but you can use the same DK yarn throughout for a non-sparkly version. You will need 3 mm needles and a little stuffing, scraps for embroidering the face, and ribbon or cord for hanging.
2. Bella Boo the Bat
For a less scary look, try this colorful bat design by Lisa Dobbs. This stuffed bat has a fun, cuddly design that works well as a Halloween toy or seasonal decoration. The project uses chunky yarn with a 4 mm crochet hook, plus toy stuffing and a small amount of black yarn for the embroidered eyes. If you are comfortable with basic double crochet stitches, increases, and decreases, this is a good project.
3. Bat Knitting Pattern
This simple knitted bat pattern from Linda is a quick Halloween project you can turn into a hanging mobile. You knit the bat flat, side to side, using black DK yarn and 4 mm needles, with increases and decreases that gradually form the pointed wings and small bat body. With basic knit, increase, decrease, and bind-off techniques, this pattern should be approachable for confident beginners.
4. Spooky Pals
Amanda Berry’s knitted bat is a small Halloween project you can turn into a keychain, bag charm, or hanging decoration. You’ll work the bat with DK yarn on 3.5 mm needles, using light grey for the stuffed body and black for the two shaped wings. Simple increases and decreases give the wings their recognizable bat shape. With straightforward stocking stitch and basic shaping, this is a manageable project for knitters comfortable with simple increases, decreases, and seaming.
5. Bat and Jack O’ Lantern
Designed by Barbara Prime, this project gives you a bat and two small Halloween pumpkin toys in one. The bats are knitted flat, using 4 mm double-pointed and straight needles, making it suitable for intermediate knitters. The basic stitches used are stockinette and garter stitch, increases and decreases, color changes, and optional single crochet.
6. FroggyBug Bat
The FroggyBug Bat by Nicole Chevalier is a more advanced knitted soft toy with an interactive wing design. The pattern uses fingering-weight yarn and is designed for 2–2.5 mm needles. The knitting gauge is 24 stitches and 32 rows = 10 cm. Basic techniques include knitting in the round, short rows, intarsia, double knitting, increases and decreases, picking up stitches, three-needle bind-off, i-cords, and basic embroidery.
7. Small knitted bat
A compact Halloween softie pattern design by Nadia Perepelitsa is next on our list. The pattern uses fingering-weight yarn and 3 mm needles, with a gauge of 30 stitches and 32 rows = 10 cm in stockinette stitch. You can also knit the bat flat and sew the pieces together. The pattern suits intermediate knitters, but beginners can try it too if they want to make a small stuffed bat without taking on an overly complicated toy project.
8. Bat
If you’re looking for a small Halloween knitting project, this design by Claire Garland is a fun option that doesn’t require much yarn. It calls for 2 mm knitting needles, toy stuffing, a tapestry needle, and the recommended gauge of 12.5 stitches and 11 rows = 5 cm in stockinette stitch. You can also choose between two versions: one with forelegs for a cuter look and another without them for a more anatomically inspired bat. The finished bat measures about 13cm/ 5in tall before blocking.
9. Halloween Knitting Pattern
Bat by Claire Garland is a pocket-sized knitted Halloween decoration with a simple soft-toy shape and separate wings. Its small size makes it easy to display around the home during Halloween, whether on a shelf or in a seasonal arrangement. The pattern is a good choice for knitters who enjoy making small animal projects and want a Halloween-themed make that doesn’t take up much time or space.
10. Bats and Pumpkins
This Halloween knitting set by Amanda Berry features two bats and two pumpkins, designed as small stuffed decorations for the season. The project is knitted with DK, an acrylic double-knitting-weight yarn, using 3 mm straight single-pointed needles. The pumpkins use 22 mm toy safety eyes, with felt placed behind the eye and nose washers to help secure the small pieces. The pattern combines basic toy knitting with shaping, stuffing, sewing, and embroidered details.
11. Violet the little bat
Designed in an amigurumi style by Lynn Finsterwalde, the finished piece has a three-dimensional shape, making it suitable as a handmade toy or Halloween decoration. Work the pattern with 3.5 mm (US 4) knitting needles. Its amigurumi-style construction gives the finished bat a rounded, stuffed shape rather than a flat decoration. Would you love to try this small, Halloween-inspired 3D softie?
12. Betty the Halloween Bat
Rebecca Roberts made this versatile knitting pattern, which you can use to make either a Halloween-themed chocolate orange cover or a stuffed bat soft toy. As a toy, the finished bat measures about 15 cm, making it a handy size for seasonal decorating, a table gift, or a handmade present.
13. Toy Bat
Toy Bat by Rian Anderson is a large knitted fruit bat designed to hang around the home or form part of a Halloween display. The toy is knitted flat on two needles, with the wings shaped as you work and then stiffened using drinking straws or chenille sticks so they can hold their position. You can make a single bat for Halloween or knit several to create a hanging colony around your home.
14. Billy the Bat Halloween Toy
Billy the Bat by Amanda Berry is a knitted Halloween toy designed to hang upside down using loops on its toes. The pattern uses DK or light worsted-weight acrylic yarn, with Sirdar Hayfield Bonus DK suggested, and is worked flat on a pair of 3.5 mm (US 4) straight knitting needles rather than in the round. You’ll also need toy filling, a tapestry needle, beads, and felt fabric for the eyes. You’ll shape the bat using basic increases and decreases, knit and purl stitches, casting on and off, and seaming to finish.
