Crochet Ghost Patterns: 12 Free Halloween Designs
These crochet ghost patterns come from their original designers and range from a 2-inch keychain-sized ghost to a jumbo plushie and a full 10-foot garland. Open the designer pages for the full instructions, materials, and finishing details before choosing one. Compare finished size and whether you want a standalone ghost or a hanging decoration.
Fiberfill and safety eyes cover the shopping list for nearly every version here, whichever size you land on.
Ghost patterns to explore
1. Tiny Ghost
Nicole Chase keeps this one genuinely tiny at about 2 inches tall, worked in worsted weight with a ruffled hem made from double crochets worked in front loops only. It only takes about 16 yards of yarn, which makes it a good pattern for keychains, garlands, or a car charm rather than a standalone decoration.
2. Wheat Stitch Ghost
Briana K Designs uses the wheat stitch to give this 8-inch ghost a knit-like texture instead of the usual smooth amigurumi surface. It comes with a matching crocheted witch hat and pumpkin, and you can leave the bottom open for a battery light or close and stuff it as a plush.
3. Baby Ghost
Storyland Amis adds a droopy, oversized witch hat crocheted in back loops only for a looser, floppier fabric than the body. Finished height is about 5 inches with the hat, worsted weight throughout, with a scalloped fringe at the hem and simple chain-and-slip-stitch arms.
4. Halloween Ghost
Crochet With Nikki gives you the option to work this one in glow-in-the-dark yarn for a genuinely different look after dark. It’s a straightforward 17-round worsted weight amigurumi with puff-stitch arms and a wavy skirt hem, listed as beginner-friendly.
5. No-Sew Ghost
The Loopy Lamb goes big with super bulky yarn for a 9-inch plush ghost, arms crocheted right into the body so there’s nothing to sew on afterward. A removable witch hat and a scalloped ruffle edge finish it off, and a worsted weight mini version is also linked on the same page.
6. Spooky Ghost Garland
CB Fiber Works strings a whole row of small 2 to 3-inch ghosts onto a 10-foot chain garland instead of making one standalone piece. Each ghost is a quick no-sew build, so this is the pattern to pick if you want to decorate a mantel or doorway rather than make a single toy.
7. Ghost Granny Square
Banana Moon Studio builds this one from a 9-round fingering weight granny square, then drapes and shapes it over a plastic cup to form the ghost’s rounded body before adding felt eyes. It finishes at about 6 inches tall and needs an unusually large hook for the yarn weight to get the drape right.
8. Spooky Ghost Granny Square
Lovable Loops takes a different approach, building a 3D ghost appliqué with a ruffled hem to sew onto a standard black-and-white granny square base. The square itself measures 7.25 inches, worked in worsted weight throughout.
9. Halloween Ghost Granny Square
Maria’s Blue Crayon is part of a larger Halloween granny square blanket crochet-along, with a half-double-crochet ghost appliqué featuring treble-stitch arms sewn onto a 6.5-inch gray square base. Worth a look if you’d rather work toward a full blanket than a standalone piece.
10. Fab-Boo-Lous Ghost
The Loopy Lamb also has this smaller companion to their jumbo no-sew ghost listed above, worked in worsted weight at about 3.5 inches tall without the matching witch hat. It’s a genuinely different pattern from their bigger version, not just a resized copy.
11. Ghost Appliqué
GoldenLucyCrafts offers this flat 3-inch appliqué in two versions, with or without arms, plus optional tiny thread flowers and seed beads if you want to dress it up. It’s worked from a simple chain-9 foundation over four rows rather than in the round.
12. Easy Crochet Ghost Appliqué
Traverse Bay Crochet works a similar flat appliqué top to bottom over 10 rows, finishing at 3.5 by 3 inches with a wavy double-crochet hem and a single-crochet edging round. A good beginner option if GoldenLucyCrafts’ version above feels too fiddly.
Choosing a ghost pattern
Pick based on how you plan to use it. Nicole Chase’s Tiny Ghost and CB Fiber Works’ garland both work well as hanging decor since they’re built small and light; Briana K Designs and Storyland Amis both pair the ghost with a witch hat for a more finished costume-accessory look; and The Loopy Lamb’s jumbo version is the one to make if you want a single plush toy rather than several small pieces. Use each designer’s own directions for construction and safety choices rather than mixing details between patterns.
