Dog Knitting Patterns

I feel like I should just share the Sleepy Puppy pattern from Huggable Bears on Etsy and call it a day because this one is so cute! I love how different it looks using different kinds of yarn so you can make it look more like your own dog. The best part? It’s knit flat and assembled so you can make the pieces just the way you want.

This dalmatian puppy from Dot Pebbles is also pretty darn adorable. I love how lifelike this one looks, and if you’re modeling it after a real dog you can change up the spots as you like.

Fluff and Fuzz has a ton of great dog knitting patterns, including Larry the Labradoodle, another project where the yarn really makes the difference. That one is in their Etsy shop, but I also found a free St. Bernard pattern on WoolBox if you want to try out one of their patterns before you buy.

Use up all your DK scraps to make the Long Long Dog by Annie Ah (available on Ravelry). This one comes out long enough to be a body pillow, and of course you can adjust the size depending on how much yarn you have. The pattern for these cuties is available in English and Korean.

If knitting a dog isn’t whimsical enough for you, why not knit a dog balloon animal like this one from Jamie McCanless? It’s name is Snooker and it’s made with fingering weight yarn, though you can use heavier weight yarn to make a bigger animal if you like. The pattern is on Ravelry.

Make a tiny dog with equally adorable tiny accessories with the Plysa pattern from Hélène Magnússon. This little sausage dog includes a knit sweater and a variety of scarves. It uses aran weight yarn and is available on Ravelry.

Or make this little pug with a pattern from Olga Chepizhnaya on Ravelry. This one includes a ton of photos and uses basic knitting skills so you can make it even if you don’t have a ton of knitting experience.

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It’s well known (among knitters, anyway) that knitters seem to love chickens as a motif and a subject of our knitting projects. The Emotional Support Chicken and all the other chicken knitting patterns are just the beginning of our devotion to farmyard friends.

For example, there’s Farmer Dennis’ Chicken Hat. This free pattern from Stacy Black is a simple worsted weight beanie sized for adults and decorate with a couple of little rounds of colorwork fences and a flock of chickens strutting around the body of the hat.

You don’t need a lot of any of the colors for the chickens, their facial features or the fences, so this is a great project for using little leftover bits from other projects. The main color for the body of the hat is less than a skein using the yarn suggested, so you might just have everything you need in your house to start stitching up this hat right away.

The colorwork is presented as a chart, with a 16 stitch section that repeats around the body of the hat. All the color changes are shown on the chart but I think it would be easier to knit the whole chicken in the chicken color and add the eye, beak and other features using duplicate stitch when the knitting is done. That way you don’t have to carry those yarns around the whole hat for just a few stitches.

As the name suggests, the original hat was given to a farmer who shared their eggs, but anyone who raises chickens or just has a thing for the fowl is sure to love this cute hat. It wouldn’t be too difficult for someone new to stranded knitting or reading charts to make, either, so if that’s you, give it a try.

The pattern is available for free on Ravelry.

[Photo: Stacy Black]

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