I can’t find the actual pattern on ravelry right now because I’m in the middle of teaching and I apparently didn’t put it in my library but I know it’s there somewhere…
Edit; I found it, it was on lovecrafts Halloween Bats Ornament Knitting pattern by MurisKnits | LoveCrafts
How would I do this cast off for the wings of the bat? Am I casting on and then immediately casting them off?
Thanks.
Cute critters 
Yes, you’ll cast on sts in the indicated sts, then cast off the given number of sts. That one stitch leftover from the cast off in each case will be cast off with the next set of cast offs.
You could use a knit or a cable cast on to give you those little bumps on the wings.
Definitely cute!
I got confused because I cast off the 11 stitches after casting on the two but then my next stitch to cast on into wasn’t one of the stockinette stitches
I think that if you cast off up to the first stockinette stitch (no matter if it’s 11 or 12sts cast off) you should be ok.
Just to verify, should I have three stitches in the first stitch or two?
Sorry, I dunno why I can’t wrap my head around it, I blame the mental energy of teaching piano for four hours, haha
Two sts in the very first stitch. This is going to make the small protrusion at the end of the ribs or fingers in the bat’s wings.
Four hours of teaching piano! That’s impressive.
I asked it weird. Counting the stitch I’m casting on into, it would be three total for that one stitch right? I almost had it figured out last night, I think one more attempt at the wing and I’ll have it.
Ah, I see. My interpretation was the problem. Yes, counting the stitch you cast on into, there’s 3sts total there. Working over to the next stockinette stitch makes more sense to me than counting sts between these stockinette ribs.
It really is a very cute and clever design.
What I ended up doing yesterday except for an errant stitch at the end was casting them on and then immediately casting them all off and then reading the knitting to find the next stockinette and if I hadn’t forgotten to cast off the very first stitch I probably would have had it
Very tricky pattern but an excellent Halloween decoration. Are you going to make another?
Yeah, I’ve got brown and black yarn too that I can use up. I’m gonna take it to the music school I teach at.
That worked out very nicely and very scary.
A pumpkin pattern is easier to come by.
I printed this one, but I’ve only used double pointed needles successfully once. (Ironically, two weeks ago.)
Is this knit flat or in the round?
It’s knit in the round.
Darn, that’s the part I was having trouble with. I’ll fight with it some more, maybe I’ll use the worsted orange first before trying the fingering weight orange.
You could probably work this flat by adding a stitch at the ends for seaming and changing every other round to the reverse stitch. Change knits to purls and vice versa.
