My 2025 Halloween crochet costume.
So for context, I started crocheting in Spring of 2024. I had previously only done a bit of knitting and loom knitting. I had attempted a few times to do crochet and it finally clicked then. After I got the hand of it, I felt an obsession starting. I was thinking of tons of new projects, including making my own Halloween costume that year in 2024. I made a Luigi costume with bernet blank yarn by making a green sweater and overalls. It was a very warm costume but I proud of myself for making an entire wearable costume.
So for 2025, I wanted to take it to the next level and use a regular weight weight, (size 4 for context) to make a costume. I had gotten into TMNT over the summer and decided to make a Leonardo costume that would be based off the design of TMNT 2012 Leonardo.
After a looking at a ton of reference pictures and drawing a few drafts, I finally came up with this design option.
For people who know of the crochet process and want more details, I will provide some here.
I used half double crochets for the sweater, making it with two panels for the body and the arms separate. I used the brown from the back of the sweater and surface crocheted the lines on the front part of the sweater. For the front beige part, I just kind of improvised and decreased to make the two points. It was definitely a trail and error thing, but I eventually found a look that I liked. For the beanie, I found a crochet slouchy beanie tutorial to make for the ninja mask inspired look. For the gloves I was able to use a fingerless gloves tutorial as a reference then was able to free hand it to make them look like the turtle hands.
Overall, I was really proud of my accomplishments to challenge myself and make a new costume for Halloween. I hope you enjoy and if there are any questions, feel free to ask me. I am attempting to share more of my crochet stuff, so let me know if you like it.
TLDR: I made a crochet costume for Halloween 2025 based on Leonardo from TMNT 2012.