Description
Your dog has been watching you knit beautiful sweaters for humans long enough. It’s their turn.
The Dog Dream Sweater is a top-down, stranded-colourwork dog sweater inspired by the Dream Sweater from EweKnit Toronto. With its graphic colourwork motifs and textured details, it gives your dog a proper handknit sweater moment — rather than merely something practical to wear outside.
The sweater is worked from the top down and mostly in the round. The armholes are worked using scrap yarn, then picked up later to create seamless sleeves with a textured stitch pattern that coordinates with the body.
There’s also an optional leash hole, because looking fabulous should not interfere with going for a walk.
And because dogs stubbornly refuse to come in standardized sweater dimensions, the pattern includes notes about adjusting armhole placement and trying the sweater on your dog as you knit.
The pattern includes six video tutorials covering techniques used in the design, so you have a little extra help along the way.
Pattern Details
Craft: Knitting
Sizes: XS, S, M, L, XL
Yarn Weight: DK
Suggested Yarn: Paintbox Yarns Simply DK
Gauge: 6 stitches = 1 inch
Needles: US 4 / 3.5 mm and US 8 / 5 mm
Construction: Top-down, worked primarily in the round
Language: English
Bonus: 6 video tutorials included
Finished Chest Sizing
XS: 11–13″ / 28–33 cm
S: 13–16″ / 33–40 cm
M: 16–20″ / 40–51 cm
L: 20–24″ / 51–61 cm
XL: 24–28″ / 62–71 cm
Yarn Requirements
Main Colour:
XS: 150 yd / 138 m
S: 190 yd / 174 m
M: 240 yd / 220 m
L: 300 yd / 275 m
XL: 360 yd / 330 m
Contrast Colour:
XS: 80 yd / 73 m
S: 105 yd / 96 m
M: 145 yd / 132 m
L: 175 yd / 160 m
XL: 255 yd / 233 m
Yardage is approximate and will vary depending on your yarn, needles and tension.
Techniques Used
- Long-tail cast on
- Increasing
- Decreasing
- Knitting in the round
- Knitting flat
- Stranded colourwork
- Picking up stitches
Fit note: The pattern places the armholes after the second colourwork motif, but every dog is shaped a little differently. Your dog may get a better fit with the armholes positioned above the motif, so trying the sweater on as you knit is recommended.
This listing is for a digital knitting pattern, not a finished dog sweater.
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