It's a No Tricks, Just Treats month- October! Why should kids have all the fun this time of year? Let's have some fun too! Throughout October I'll have contests on the blog for you to win fibery goodness, special treats in orders during one week, and other fun things happening. Don't miss out on all the awesomeness- just check the blog regularly to find out if something super special is happening.
Want a chance at winning two balls of Crystal Palace's Sausalito yarn in the Toast & Jam colorway? Sure you do! Leave me a comment telling me if you have a special handknit item you wear for Halloween time- before mid day tomoroww (Wednesday, October 3) and you could win.
Don't have a specific item but am currently working on a super-bulky cowl in Aslan Trends Del Sur in bright pumpkin orange which I think will be my go-to from now on!
Posted by: Sue | October 02, 2012 at 01:42 PM
I don't have a specific item, but 2 years ago I dressed up as an "obsessed knitter" and wore almost every knitted item I've ever made.
Posted by: Ruth g | October 02, 2012 at 01:45 PM
Don't have a specific knit item for Halloween :( but I am trying so hard to get mitts done with last year's Halloween kit yarn
Posted by: Joyce | October 02, 2012 at 01:46 PM
I don't but I'm hoping to be wearing a pair of socks knit out of your orange and black poste yarn this year.
Posted by: Martha | October 02, 2012 at 01:48 PM
I have a friend who hand dyes yarns, and I requested a skein of sock yarn in Halloween colors last year and knit a scarf for a dear friend who LOVES Halloween.........she'll be wearing that all month!!
I'll be wearing socks knit with black & orange yarn starting this week
Posted by: Sue J | October 02, 2012 at 01:48 PM
A hat I knit with my first spun yarn!
Posted by: Emily | October 02, 2012 at 01:49 PM
I'm working on a Hallowig to wear!
Posted by: Teresa - Working Traveling Mom | October 02, 2012 at 01:50 PM
I'm almost finished with a pair of knee-high pi striped socks in very bright and halloween-like colors. Hopefully they'll actually be finished by the 31st so I can wear them!
Posted by: Michelle | October 02, 2012 at 01:55 PM
I don't have any special Halloween knits, but I really should.
Posted by: Kylene | October 02, 2012 at 01:55 PM
I usually end up wearing jack-o-lantern face socks a lot this month. Right now it's a bit too hot for them: I'm still in my sandals!
Posted by: Kay L | October 02, 2012 at 02:10 PM
I sure do have a special item. It's my candy corn striped socks and fingerless mitts. I am always so excited to start wearing them in the fall... love them..
Posted by: natalie | October 02, 2012 at 02:16 PM
I have some autumn coloured socks which I hopefully will be able to wear by Halloween. So far, too warm!
Posted by: Maureen | October 02, 2012 at 02:20 PM
I have some socks in a colorway called "Pumpkin Patch" that I wear often, but I always try to wear those for Halloween.
Posted by: Andy | October 02, 2012 at 02:24 PM
I knit Vlad in Lorna's Laces Westlake. The color is a dark gray/black and the shawl looks very spooky.
Posted by: Susie | October 02, 2012 at 02:38 PM
By Halloween I should have a ruffle scarf in orange, purple, and black, and I hope some socks made from the yarn in the Halloween kit from SSY. Our church does a pumpkin patch and I've knit pumpkin, apple, ghost, candy corn, cat, puppy, and beehive hats for kids, but not for me!
Posted by: Jane | October 02, 2012 at 02:39 PM
I don't at this time, but I would like to!
Posted by: MARY | October 02, 2012 at 02:40 PM
I don't have any special Halloween knitted items. Maybe I'll just have to remedy that!
Posted by: Janene | October 02, 2012 at 02:40 PM
Hi, I LOVE to dress up..
I have lots of knit hats and socks to go with my dress up outfits!!
Posted by: Jean Y | October 02, 2012 at 02:43 PM
I don't have a special Halloween item....but realize that I NEED one!
Posted by: Karen | October 02, 2012 at 02:44 PM
I do not have any special handknits for Halloween, but I do have a couple skeins of variegated black, purple and orange that I need to knit into something fun for Halloween one of these days.
Posted by: Savannagal | October 02, 2012 at 02:59 PM
I can't wait for Halloween time because I can wear my black and orange striped socks with the pumpkins around the top. They look great with my black and orange striped fingerless gloves!
Posted by: Debbie | October 02, 2012 at 03:00 PM
I don't have a specific Halloween knit but I do have an October Frost Cardigan knit in a gorgeous autumn orange.
Posted by: Judith | October 02, 2012 at 03:06 PM
I usually dress up as a school girl - I have a uniform jumper saved from ever so many years ago--- add my blue knit beret and my white tights -- I'm all about the free candy!
Posted by: Leslie Fehr | October 02, 2012 at 03:07 PM
An orange reversible cabled scarf.
Posted by: Anne Marie | October 02, 2012 at 03:09 PM
I just recently started knitting, so no special Halloween knit...yet. I'm planning some cool socks for my witch outfit this year.
Posted by: Jennifer | October 02, 2012 at 03:10 PM
I wear a sweater with pumpkins, but I did not make it. Maybe after I make my socks from the Halloween kit, I will have socks to wear.
Posted by: Lucy Portland | October 02, 2012 at 03:11 PM
I have a shawl that I wear in the Fall, but nothing specific to Halloween. Hmmm... maybe a new project?? :-)
Posted by: Sandra | October 02, 2012 at 03:36 PM
Nope, nothing special. Unless you count the handknit socks I wear when I work hockey games, and Halloween is during hockey season?
Posted by: Melissa | October 02, 2012 at 03:45 PM
Nope! I don't think a handknit has ever been a part of my costume. Now that we are doing something called Trunk or Treat annually, it seems, perhaps I ought to consider something. (Although most of what I do is for charity.)
Thanks for another contest, and a great pattern recommendation for these types of yarn!
Posted by: Jan | October 02, 2012 at 03:46 PM
As of right now no specific hallowen item but I would like to make black and orange socks.
Posted by: Maureen | October 02, 2012 at 04:11 PM
I wear fingerless mitts a lot during the transition from Fall to Winter.
The colorway (Toast and Jam) is perfect for a new pair of fingerless mitts. Thanks for the chance to win.
Posted by: Nancy | October 02, 2012 at 04:12 PM
I do not. I do use some felt Halloween stuff, but it's not wool I actually felted.
Posted by: Alison | October 02, 2012 at 04:15 PM
I have hand knit black/orange socks and fingerless gloves
Posted by: Bobbi | October 02, 2012 at 04:20 PM
I have some autumn- colored socks that I knitted for myself. The aren't exclusively Halloween colors, though. I HAVE made two pair of orange and black colorwork socks for my husband. They are PERFCT for Halloween! We used to live in the San Francisco Bay Area, and he is a SF Giants fan -- and that was the real reason for the orange and black socks. He is extremely sock-worthy, too.
Posted by: Nancy | October 02, 2012 at 04:21 PM
Eeek! I don't have a special Halloween handknit!
Posted by: NancyN | October 02, 2012 at 04:24 PM
I don't have a special Halloween knit really. Some cool socks.
Posted by: Lisa Viviano | October 02, 2012 at 04:30 PM
No special Halloween knits here. Working on socks that should be done by then.
Posted by: Margo | October 02, 2012 at 04:34 PM
i have a pair of socks that i dyed halloween colors. they are three years old.....guess i should knit a new pair.
Posted by: nicky | October 02, 2012 at 04:35 PM
Nothing special for Hallowe'en. Perhaps someday.
I do have some yarn in my stash that would make some nice Hallowe'eny things but I just haven't made it that far yet.
Posted by: Renee Anne | October 02, 2012 at 05:01 PM
Last year I made a pair of orange socks that I look forward to pulling on soon!
Posted by: Ashley W | October 02, 2012 at 05:02 PM
Black and orange striped socks are my Halloween wardrobe!
Posted by: Deb Williams | October 02, 2012 at 05:03 PM
WIP- halloween shawl, hope to have it done in the next couple of weeks!
Posted by: Laura | October 02, 2012 at 05:19 PM
I'm not into Halloween enough to have a specific handknit for myself, but I did knit a Harry Potter scarf and socks for my grandson last year. Would love to make some socks from that yarn.
Posted by: Debby | October 02, 2012 at 05:27 PM
This year I can wear my Daybreak shawl - black stripes with grey/natural/bronze stripes - Warm and Fall! Tho if I get busy I could finish the black socks with orange red colorwork flames!
Posted by: jeanne | October 02, 2012 at 05:29 PM
I have a sweatshirt with jack o lanterns on it.
Posted by: Donna Reed | October 02, 2012 at 05:33 PM
I don't have anything yet, but hope to start on an orange wrap soon.
Posted by: KathyD | October 02, 2012 at 05:37 PM
We don't really do Halloween here, so I don't have a special knit.
But I should! Just because more knits are always a good idea...
Posted by: Kiki | October 02, 2012 at 05:44 PM
Clearly, I need to be knitting something for Halloween. How many days do I have???
I usually wear a black skirt with a pair of awesome orange-and-black-striped tights I splurged on a few years ago and my pointiest-toed black boots. I have a little ghost pin with eyes that light up that my kids love to steal.
Posted by: Laura | October 02, 2012 at 05:46 PM
A matching hat and cowl set and a pair of stripey mitts!
Posted by: Jennie | October 02, 2012 at 05:52 PM
My Doctor Who scarf - the very first thing I ever knit.
Posted by: Jill | October 02, 2012 at 05:53 PM
Okay, nothing knitted that I normally wear for Halloween, but this year I've been knitting like crazy all the wonderful oranges out there. Right now I've just started a marvelous cabled orange-red hat for ME! I usually knit for everyone else. I'm going to be wearing that hat all October this year!
Posted by: Nancy H | October 02, 2012 at 06:02 PM
I don't have a single Halloween-y knit - but I've been thinking about candy corn fingerless mitts!
Posted by: Rachel R. | October 02, 2012 at 06:14 PM
My kids wear flower pot hats!
Posted by: Dana | October 02, 2012 at 06:24 PM
Orange socks! Gets comments every time I wear them.
Posted by: Ann | October 02, 2012 at 06:27 PM
My witch socks - bright green and black stripes.
Posted by: Julie | October 02, 2012 at 06:34 PM
I would wear any of my handknit socks!
Posted by: Angela | October 02, 2012 at 06:43 PM
No nothing for Halloween.
Posted by: Jackie | October 02, 2012 at 06:44 PM
Like many others I don't have anything handknit and Halloweeny; just handknit. I always wear my socks.
Posted by: Karen M | October 02, 2012 at 06:50 PM
I made a Hallowig last year, in a blue-green happy feet yarn :)
Posted by: Abby M | October 02, 2012 at 06:54 PM
I have no Hallween knits. Would love to make some socks.
Posted by: Gale | October 02, 2012 at 07:03 PM
Last year was one of the toughest times of my life. Knitting class was the only thing that was getting me out of the house and it helped me get back on my feet.
One of the first things I made is what I call my "hat of power." I know, sort of silly to have at 33 but whenever I am having a tough time making it through the night or day I put on my hat of power, pull myself together and it really helps. And to think it was all an accident. I was so eager to make my first hat before my hat class that I did it on the wrong size needles. But it came out one of a kind [and I wish I could replicate the fit]. So my hat of power is my favorite and about only hand made knit that I keep for myself.
Posted by: Samantha Kravitz | October 02, 2012 at 07:11 PM
I will be wearing the hand knit socks made from your Poste yarn. The one you referred to as your "Halloween Socks". I think it was called Sedona Sunset. They were a really fast knit (I kept wanting to see how the next color stripe would look)and I love how they turned out.
Posted by: Melissa VR | October 02, 2012 at 07:14 PM
I do not have any knits for Halloween. I could wear a pair of socks I knit
Posted by: Donna | October 02, 2012 at 07:47 PM
When our youngest was two and too young to walk around with her brothers and sisters, I put her in a stroller wearing a great hoodie that I knit with bulky red yarn. Added green felt leaves and stems and she became a Tomato
Posted by: mary | October 02, 2012 at 07:47 PM
Perfect timing. I just finished The Boneyard shawl in Miss Bab's Witch's Potion. Perfect for Halloween. However my granddaughter thinks she is going to wear it, me thinks not.
Posted by: Cheryl | October 02, 2012 at 07:52 PM
Orange is my favorite color, so I have many orange options for Halloween. Usually it's orange socks, but sometimes an orange scarf if the weather is cold enough.
Posted by: Sarah | October 02, 2012 at 07:57 PM
Nope....no Halloween knits....BUT, I would love to knit some orange and black striped socks one of these years!
Posted by: Joyce | October 02, 2012 at 08:05 PM
I made my daughter a pair of Halloween socks for her first Halloween away from home (college freshman). They were the Zauberball yarn--purple, pink, and orange!
Posted by: Anna | October 02, 2012 at 09:10 PM
I don't have anything finished for halloween but am wearing my Halloween socks knitted by a friend already
Posted by: Anamaria Seda | October 02, 2012 at 09:12 PM
I don't have anything finished for halloween but am wearing my Halloween socks knitted by a friend already
Posted by: Anamaria Seda | October 02, 2012 at 09:12 PM
Not yet but I've been looking at Alchemy Juniper Blood Orange for a pair of fingerless mitts
Posted by: Anne | October 02, 2012 at 09:29 PM
Nope,nothing knitted for Halloween here...I hate to say it, but I really have never liked Halloween!
Posted by: Carolyn | October 02, 2012 at 09:43 PM
I have a couple of cute spooky toys that I knit last year and I set on the mantle this time of year.
Posted by: kelly-ann (ravelry) | October 02, 2012 at 10:25 PM
I have a black and orange Giants hat I wear if they are playing in October.
Posted by: Jill L | October 02, 2012 at 10:28 PM
I don't have anything in particular, but I do have a knit hat that I wear as part of my REn Faire outfit
Posted by: Stephanie | October 02, 2012 at 10:33 PM
I don't have a handknit to wear at Halloween time, but do look forward to when cold temperatures hit Central Texas so I can wear my handknit shawl.
Posted by: LN in TX | October 02, 2012 at 11:16 PM
I knit the shirt and wrist warmers to an 'Astrid' costume from 'How to Train Your Dragon' last year. I loved that costume!
Posted by: Dana Berry | October 02, 2012 at 11:23 PM
We aren't halloweeny people, but we like our toast and jam!
Posted by: Jen | October 02, 2012 at 11:38 PM
I always wear my Symphony V Moebius shawl/cowl made out of the black, gray & white Zauberball on Halloween, as well as around the holiday. It can be drawn up into a hood for when you're outside which comes in handy when it's snowing Halloween night.
Posted by: Laurabartlett9849 | October 03, 2012 at 12:51 AM
Halloween socks naturally :-) Especially if I have to work that night!
Posted by: Cindy Carpenter | October 03, 2012 at 12:57 AM
I don't have a special Halloween item, but I'm planning one for next year that is likely to wind up being my go-to piece every year - http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/jolly-roger-shawl
Posted by: Rachel S | October 03, 2012 at 01:58 AM
I don't have any handknits, but I do have a candy corn tic-tac-toe set.
Posted by: Janet Silloway | October 03, 2012 at 02:50 AM
Nope, I haven't knitted anything Halloween-ish. I only started to like orange as a color to wear a few years ago.
But the colors of nature are so wonderful this time of year. Aside from the pumpkins, the changing colors of leaves, etc. - all set off by crisp autumn air.
Posted by: Martha | October 03, 2012 at 05:03 AM
I don't have anything so far, but I may make my pair of viper pilot socks the Halloween item.
Posted by: Marian Skupski | October 03, 2012 at 05:33 AM
subtle and gorgeous ....I haven't knit any halloween yet but I'm still working on my handspun color affection
Posted by: brandi | October 03, 2012 at 06:27 AM
This is the first time I will actually be able to wear knitted items during October (moved from CA...then FL...now in MD)! I'm making socks with yarn in a colorway called "Great Pumpkin"...I know they'll be my favorite!!
Posted by: Brenda | October 03, 2012 at 07:08 AM
This year my small team at work are dressing up as a strange version of Goldilocks and the 3 bears. I am making slippers for the three bears and we are looking forward to a VERY comfortable day! (the rest of the costume includes fleece pants with bear paw print, plain long sleeve t-shirt and headband with bear ears) I think the slipper will become my favorite Halloween item!
Posted by: Amy G | October 03, 2012 at 07:54 AM
Not made specifically for Halloween, but my orange Central Park Hoodie always seems exactly right to wear that day.
Posted by: Joyce | October 03, 2012 at 08:09 AM
I have a black and orange fuzzy scarf I knit eons ago with the eyelash yarn. It's the only thing I have knit out of the novelty yarn that I really like.
Posted by: Cyndy Landers AKA the Yarnwitch | October 03, 2012 at 08:32 AM
I don't have a Halloween knit item; I need one! I bet I could come up with something using Toast & Jam!
Posted by: Candi | October 03, 2012 at 08:40 AM
I have no specific knit for Halloween but this year I hope I will have new gloves in time for the trick or treat kids.
Posted by: Barbara | October 03, 2012 at 09:50 AM
I don't have a Halloween clothing item knit by me for the occasion! I could make one! I love your blogs.
Posted by: Sue | October 03, 2012 at 10:33 AM
I love Crystal Palaces colorways. I don't have any special knits for holloween (although I have several black striping sock yarns that could be). My only special knits are two pairs of socks for myself. I am trying to remedy that but haven't worked out the perfect plain sock yet.
Posted by: Rachel | October 03, 2012 at 11:14 AM
I have no specific handknits for Halloween...but I am working on a hitchhiker scarf that has all the Hallowen colors...maybe I'll have it done for the holiday!!!
Posted by: Rasa | October 03, 2012 at 11:36 AM
I don't have anything special for Halloween. I usually have to work. Thanks for the giveaway.
Posted by: Debie H | October 03, 2012 at 12:26 PM
I am making "Fright Night" Socks with your wonderful Poste Yarn! Have 1 done, 1 to go. Will wear them a lot in October, including to a costume party
Posted by: Sjlsew | October 03, 2012 at 02:31 PM
I am knitting my first pair of Halloween socks and I love them. Your Halloween kit is the best. I love those new markers.
Posted by: paula busbee | October 03, 2012 at 02:50 PM
I don't have a hand knit item that I wear for Halloween, but I do have a shirt that says..."this is me wearing my Grandma costume!"
Posted by: Andrea W | October 03, 2012 at 02:50 PM
Just received the poste yarn fright night from you in the mail this weekend - now I just need to work them up to make a pair of fingerless mitts!
Posted by: FGEE | October 03, 2012 at 03:00 PM
I don't have a special knit item, but I do have spider earrings and necklace that I wear with a pencil skirt and heels at work. :)
Posted by: Cindy | October 03, 2012 at 03:47 PM