6 Halloween Stash-Busting Ideas

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Get in the mood for Halloween and use up any yarn scraps in your yarn stash! We've covered everything from pom pom bats and macramé ghosts to spooky wall hangings.

These six stash-busting tutorials are easy to follow and can be recreated with whatever colour yarn scraps you have.

Project and instructions by Natasha Emmerson from @love.indy_

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Tassel Ghost Garland: Step 1

Make four pom poms in your chosen colours.

Tassel Ghost Garland: Step 2

Trim your pom poms.

Tassel Ghost Garland: Step 3

To make your ghost with your chosen colour, take a flat piece of cardboard measuring 8 inches x 4 inches and from the top of the longer side place your yarn down flat.

Tassel Ghost Garland: Step 4

Fold the yarn over and down the card, wrap the yarn around 29 more times and cut the yarn at the bottom leaving a tail.

Tassel Ghost Garland: Step 5

With a darning needle, cut a long piece of string and thread the needle behind the yarn wrapped around one side of the card. Pull the string to the top of the card and secure with a knot.

Tassel Ghost Garland: Step 6

With your scissors, place them at the lowest point of your tassel behind the yarn wrapped around the card and cut all the way through to take the tassel of the card.

Tassel Ghost Garland: Step 7

Cut a long piece of string and lay it down flat, place the tassel down on top of the string quarter of the way up. Wrap the strings over, tie and secure with a knot.

With your darning needle take both loose ends of the tie and wrap around the tassel once and thread through the back of the tie.

Tassel Ghost Garland: Step 8

Trim your tassel to neaten the edges.

Tip: For a neater finish, you can steamed the tassel to straighten it.

Tassel Ghost Garland: Step 9

With black felt, cut out 3 small ovals to make 2 eyes and a mouth.

Using a glue gun, stick them onto the ghost above the top quarter of the tassel.

Tassel Ghost Garland: Step 10

To create the garland, cut a piece of twine approximately 100cm long and create a knot at one end of the garland.

With your darning needle, thread the twine onto the needle and insert the needle up and through the top of the tassel. Pull the twine all the way through so the tassel meets the knot at the opposite end.

Tassel Ghost Garland: Step 11

Insert your needle (with the twine threaded) through each pom pom to thread onto the garland.

To finish the garland create a loop at the opposite end to the tassel and knot.

Tassel Ghost Wand: Step 1

With your chosen colour repeat Step 1-9 of the pom pom ghost tassel garland to create the ghost tassel.

Tassel Ghost Wand: Step 2

Take a dowel that measures 15cm and insert the dowel up into the centre of the tassel, so it hits the top but doesn’t go through.

Tassel Ghost Wand: Step 3

Cut a piece of ribbon 10cm long, place the tassel ghost now attached to the dowel down on top of the ribbon. Wrap the ribbon around and create a knot over the top of the tie you previously made. Trim and neaten the ends of the ribbon to finish the wand.

Ghost Wall Hanging: Step 1

Take your yarn and cut a piece of string measuring 60cm.

Repeat this process 7 more times and fold them all in half like pictured.

Ghost Wall Hanging: Step 2

With a dowel measuring 30cm, place the folded yarn from the loop side over and behind the dowel.

Insert the opposite end of the yarn through the loop to knot onto the dowel.

Ghost Wall Hanging: Step 3

Repeat Step 2 with the rest of your chosen colours.

You should have 13 tassels knotted the dowel in total.

Ghost Wall Hanging: Step 4

To make the ghosts (you will need 3 of these) repeat steps 1-9 of the pom pom ghost tassel garland.

Ghost Wall Hanging: Step 5

To attach the ghosts to the hanging, cut 3 pieces of twine all at different lengths.

With a darning needle thread a piece of twine onto the needle and insert up and through the middle of one of the ghost tassels. Pull the tassel down almost to the bottom of one end of the twine.

Ghost Wall Hanging: Step 6

Loop the twine over and down the dowel, back into the top of the tassel (to meet the other end of the twine) and knot the two ends together.

Pull the tassel down onto the knot to hide it.

Repeat this step with the next two tassels.

Ghost Wall Hanging: Step 7

To finish, trim across the bottom of the wall hanging to neaten the ends up and attach a piece of twine either end of the dowel with a knot to hang.

Pom Pom Bat: Step 1

Make a pom pom in your chosen colour and trim to neaten.

Pom Pom Bat: Step 2

Cut a piece of twine approximately 30cm, thread the twine onto a darning needle and insert the needle up through the pom pom and back down to create a loop at one end.

Knot the two ends of twine together at the other end of the pom pom, pull the twine until the knot is hidden and trim the twine.

Pom Pom Bat: Step 3

With some plain black felt cut out two oval shapes for eyes and with black glittery felt cut out two ear shapes and bat wings.

Pom Pom Bat: Step 4

Using a glue gun, attach both the wings to one side of the pom pom (this is now the back) and the ears to the top of the pom pom. Finish by gluing the eyes onto the front of the bat.

Pom Pom Ghost: Step 1

With your chosen colour begin by wrapping the yarn around 2 thirds of the pom pom maker on one side until its full and compact.

Pom Pom Ghost: Step 2

Turn your pom pom maker over and place your finger flat on the yarn you’ve wrapped over and the space still to be filled.

Begin wrapping the yarn over your finger and filling in the gap until its nice and compact.

Pull your finger out and close the side of the pom pom maker. The yarn will be loose on one side.

Pom Pom Ghost: Step 3

Repeat step 1 and 2 on the opposite side but make sure the loose side of the yarn is symmetrical to the other side.

Pom Pom Ghost: Step 4

Cut the pom pom off the maker and tie together.

Pom Pom Ghost: Step 5

To shape the pom pom, trim the compact area of the yarn to round it off and trim the loose ends so the end of the ghost shape is squared off.

Pom Pom Ghost: Step 6

Cut a piece of twine 10cm long and thread it onto a needle. Insert the needle up into the pom pom and through the top. Insert the needle back down into the pom pom to create a loop.

Knot together the two ends of the twine and pull the loop up to hide the knot. Trim any visible twine.

Pom Pom Ghost: Step 7

To finish the ghost, cut three oval shapes out of black felt and glue them onto one side of the pom pom (making two eyes and a mouth).

Macrame Ghost: Step 1

With your macrame yarn measure a length of yarn at 10 inches or the length you’d like your biggest arch to be.

Do not cut the yarn, instead measure out another 3 pieces of yarn of the same length.

You should have 4 pieces thick of yarn to each arch.

Macrame Ghost: Step 2

At one end of the yarn wrap tape around the end to secure all 4 pieces together.

Repeat this on the opposite side

Macrame Ghost: Step 3

Repeat step 1-2 3 more times, making them an inch smaller each time.

Macrame Ghost: Step 4

Take your first arch and begin wrapping white DK yarn around it (making sure to leave a small gap no bigger than 2cm between the tape at the end of the rope and where you begin to wrap the yarn). Wrap the yarn along the set leaving another 2cm gap between the yarn and the other end.

Fasten off the yarn at the end by threading the tail onto a darning needle and inserting it back into the tied yarn.