Knit a Fishy Sweater for Your Dog

Little dogs are adorable in or out of clothes, but when the weather starts to get cooler your little friend might actually need an extra layer of warmth for walks or time spent outside.

Luckily, we’re knitters, so we can fashion a wardrobe for a tiny dog in no time.

If you happen to have a little pooch who needs some extra protection, allow me to suggest stitching up the Fish Frenzy dog sweater by Sandy Mills, aka New Age Knitting.

This sweater comes in four sizes, for puppies with a chest circumference of 10 to 18 inches (that’s 25.5 to 45.7 cm) and is covered with adorable fish in different colors. It calls for worsted weight yarn so you can use all your leftovers to make a super colorful school of fish. Choose washable yarn if you can for ease in caring for the finished garment.

Parts of the sweater are worked flat while others are worked in the round. Because of that and all of the colorwork I’d say this is an intermediate knitting pattern, but if you’re comfortable working in the round and doing stranded colorwork you should be totally fine.

If you wanted to make the project a little easier (or you just want to make multiple versions of dog sweaters using the same pattern) you could work the body in plain stripes or even in a solid color to make this a really quick and useful knitting project for all the little doggies in your life.

You can get your copy of the pattern on Etsy.

Have you ever wanted to knit a dog? Check out our collection of knitting patterns to make dogs (not to be confused with knitting patterns that make something that dogs can use, like this one). And if you like cats we’ve got cat knitting patterns, too!

[Photo: New Age Knitting]

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I’ve shared a lot of Christmas stocking knitting patterns over the years (see posts 1, 2, 3 for example) but what if you want to knit a stocking for a non-human member of your family. If you’re looking for Christmas stocking knitting patterns for your cats or dogs, this is the post for you.

These large paw print stockings are perfect for either dogs or cats, so they’re great to knit if you have both. They are worked in the round using DK weight yarn, and the stocking measures about 17 inches/43 cm from the top to the heel. You can get the pattern from nicolaluke.

The K4 Project has a super cute Kitty Christmas stocking pattern, which is worked in worsted weight yarn. They also have a dog version, or you can buy both and get a discount if you have both dogs and cats to knit for. Both projects have two patterns, showing how to work the stockings flat or in the round.

Put your dog into a Christmas scene with this stocking pattern from ifanhourChild. It shows a dog in a dog house in the snow, and has room for the dog’s name at the top. It’s worked flat using worsted weight yarn and the pattern includes charts for many small and medium dog breeds (there’s a separate listing for bigger dogs) so you can stitch a dog that looks like yours.

Annie’s Woolens has both dog and cat stocking knitting patterns that are worked in worsted weight yarn in the round. You can change up the colors to suit your pet if you want, and they come with an alphabet chart for personalization. Or you can stick with holiday colors and buy a kit to make the dog or cat stocking.

Waiting for Santa Paws is a pattern from Kate Agner on Ravelry that would be cute for a dog or a cat. It looks like a leg with a paw print on the bottom part of the foot and more paw prints running around the top of the leg. This is a great option if you don’t want to mess with a heel turn because it doesn’t have a heel, because dogs and cats don’t have heels so why would their stockings?

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