Arcade Nights Dog Sweater

Description

This sweater is part of the Arcade Nights set with the Arcade Nights Fingerless Mitts. Available individually or as a bundle.

This pattern includes step by step video tutorials to help you through from cast on to bind off!

This nod to a favourite retro video game, especially when done up in bright colours, is always a head turner on walks. Such a fun set to knit and wear.

This sweater is knit top down, in the round with a colorful rib trim and stranded colourwork yoke. Instructions for the optional leash hole are included after the first colourwork motif. This pattern can be made using bits of scrap yarn for the colourwork.

The armholes are first knit flat in scrap yarn, and are later picked up and finished for a totally seamless sleeve, with trim to the rest of the sweater. The lower body features a third motif before the tummy shaping, this motif may not fit in the shortest lengths. The shaping is customizable for your dog’s unique shape.

Techniques:
-long tail cast on
-increases
-decreases
-stranded colourwork
-picking up stitches
-knitting in the round
-purling
-knitting flat

Sizing:
XS, S, (M, L, XL) for a chest circumference of;
11-13”, 13-16” (16-20”, 20-24”, 24-28)“.

The sizes are based off the back and chest measurements, (taken across the widest part of the back and at the largest part of the rib cage). The armholes are generous – bigger is better when it comes to armholes!

Yarn:
DK weight.
This is an estimate, the final yardage will vary based on your yarn choice and tension.

Sample knit in Paintbox Yarns Simply DK.

[MC] Pure Black; 1(1, 1), 2 skeins
[CC1] Daffodil Yellow; 1(1, 1) 1 skeins
[CC2] Pillar Red 1(1, 1) 1 skeins
[CC3] Kingfisher Blue; 1(1, 1) 1 skeins
[CC4] Lime Green; 1(1, 1) 1 skeins
[CC5] Raspberry Pink; 1(1, 1) 1 skeins
[CC6] Pansy Purple; 1(1, 1) 1 skeins
[CC7] Coffee Bean; 1(1, 1) 1 skeins