Free Knitted Halloween Candy Corn Beanbags

Instead of giving all those candy treats on Halloween, give these knitted Candy Corn bean bags. The little ghouls and goblins will have hours of fun with these candy corn beanbags. The Halloween beanbag is about 3 ½ inches tall. It requires approximately ½ ounce each of yellow, orange, and white yarn. I used inexpensive medium worsted yarn and knitted a whole basketful for Halloween.

Materials Needed:

½ ounce medium worsted yarn (red, yellow, orange)

Size 7 double pointed needles

Fiberfill

Navy or other dried beans

Orange thread for sewing

Tapestry Needle

Directions:

Gauge using stockinette stitch (knit every row) is 9 sts. and 13 rnds equal 2 inches.

Starting at the base of the candy corn, using double pointed needles and yellow yarn, Cast on 18 sts. Divide the stitches onto 3 dpns. And join together. Knit 1 round.

Rnd 2: (K1, L inc, k1, L inc, k4, R inc, k1, R inc, k2) twice.

Rnd 3: K 26 sts.

Rnd 4: (k1, L inc, k10, R inc, k2) twice.

Rnd 5-8: K 30 sts.

Rnd 9: Change to orange and k30 sts.

Rnd 10: (K1, k2tog,k8, ssk, k2) twice.

Rnd 11-13: K26 sts,

Rnd 14: (K1, k2 tog, k6, ssk, k2) twice.

Rnd 15-17: K 22 sts.

Rnd 18: (K1, k2tog, k4, ssk, k2) twice.

Rnd 19-21: Using white, k 18 sts.

Rnd 22: (K1, k2tog, k2, ssk, k2)twice.

Rnd 23-24: K14 sts.

Rnd 25: (K2tog) around.

Leave a long tail and cut the yarn. Thread the tail onto a tapestry needle and sew the side from top to bottom. Before closing the bottom, fill the top with fiberfill and the bottom of the candy corn with beans. Sew up the bottom opening.

Here's a description of the abbreviations used in the Candy Corn pattern:

Dpn - double pointed needles

Inc 1 - use either right or left increase

K2tog - knit two stitches together

L inc - this gives an increase that slants to the left. Insert the left needle from the front to the back and under the thread between two stitches. Knit through the back loop, making a new stitch.

R inc - this is the right increase that slants to the right. Insert the left needle from the back to the front and then under the stitch between the two stitches. Knit through the front loop to form another stitch.

Rnd - Round

Ssk - slip the nest two stitches one at a time as if knitting onto the right needle. Inster the left needle through the front loop of both stitches, then knit together.

St(s) - stitches

Have a haunting good time knitting these Halloween Candy Corn Beanbags.

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