Thanks, all. I had to make the witches a bit shorter to fit and the nose in the pattern was so enormous even for the most hideous old hag, I cut that down, too - and it’s still a massive green conk!
Has anyone else never come across an I-cord before, BTW? It’s a knitted strip that comes out like French knitting. (For the witches’ arms and legs.). The pattern instructions weren’t very clear (I had to YouTube) plus it needed double-ended needles, which I didn’t have.
So I knitted a strip of 4 stitches, same number as the I-cord, and sewed it round a length of pipe cleaner - I did happen to have some of those.
I was going to do the same for the broomsticks when it occurred to me just in time - dhurr! - that there were plenty of twigs in the garden...