This year my son decided he wanted to be Georgie from Stephen King’s It. Great! Another easy costume to pull together! I had originally thought to make a paper mache balloon for him to carry (a real helium balloon was just asking to get let go and I so didn’t want to deal with that breakdown). Then I got more and more afraid that he would drop it and break it o that I wouldn’t be able to hold the balloon upright without making a hole in it… so I decided just to go ahead and make one! Of course there wasn’t a pattern readily available because how many people think to make a large balloon out of crochet? So, here’s my It balloon pattern…. written as a amigurumi style pattern.

Note: This balloon is big. Like adult head size. You could decrease the amount of increase rounds then decrease the sc and decrease, sc rounds by the exact same and it should work out fine.

Note: As I was making this it made me think that this would be awesome in blue or pink for a baby gift…