Knit a Sheep Sweater for Your Little Princess

Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, has a knack for dressing her kiddos in adorable knits. Remember little George in his soldier boy vest?

The royal family recently released a photo of Princess Charlotte in an adorable yellow cardigan bedecked with a yoke full of bunnies.

The original sold out everywhere as soon as the photo was released, but of course knitters can make their own.

There was already a pattern on Ravelry from a bunny-yoked cardigan, the Sheep Yoke Baby Cardigan by Jennifer Little of Looking Glass Knits. Her version — a free download on Ravelry available in English and Dutch and sized for a 9 to 12-month-old — shows a beige sweater with sheep on a field of green and either blue or pink accents. To make it more like the royal cardigan in question, knit the whole body in yellow and stitch blue sheep on a white background. You could even add in your own bands of Fair Isle diamonds to the bottom of the yoke instead of the checkerboard pattern of the original.

If you wanted to make a cardigan like this for a bigger child, choose any yoked cardigan pattern you like and work in the sheep and other designs as you go.

Want to get in on the sheep trend without copying Charlotte’s look? Here are a few more great sheep cardigans for kids:

Welcome to the Flock | Julia Farwell-Clay

Hoggett | Ann Kingstone

Where the Wild Sheep Roam | Pinneguri

Or for adults, check out Farwell-Clay’s Shepherdess, Pinneguri’s Angry Sheep and Sinnasaujakka, the Summer Snow Sweater by Patrick Hassel-Zein, or Tups and Wethers, both by Kingstone. And if you’re one of the thousands who has knit a Baa-ble (or a few), those sheep would be smashing on a sweater as well.

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I don’t even know what to say about this amazing knitting pattern. The Bestiary Scarf from Monstra & Mirabilia is so full of details it’s a little intimidating to talk about.

It features, as the designer describes it, an “artistic encyclopaedia of Western mythical creatures.”

The pattern includes a dragon, harpy, Medusa, chimaera, centauress, phoneix, kraken, mermaid, sew serpent, cyclops, wyvern, Pegasus, amphiptere and amphibaena. (It’s a good thing there’s a photo of the proejct with everything labelled because I definitely didn’t know the names for everything.) It’s also designed like a landscape, with water and land creatures toward the bottom ends and sky creatures toward the top.

The dragon is at the center and is worked sideways so it will show as upright when you wear it.

The scarf is worked in double knitting, so the colorwork appears in the opposite colors on the other side.

It’s worked in light fingering weight yarn (on size 0 US or 2mm knitting needles) and the colorwork is shown in charts. The pattern also includes some video tutorials and written instructions to help you along. The designer says the pattern is for intermediate knitters, and “advanced beginners may succeed with patience and the help of the video tutorials.”

When I was an advanced beginner this kind of a pattern would have brought me to tears, but if you love a challenge, and a project that you’ll wear and get tons of astonished reactions every time, this is the project for you. And of course if you have a few double knitting projects under your belt and are comfortable reading charts, this project shouldn’t be hard, but that doesn’t mean it’s fast. But lots of great things take time, and that’s never stopped us before, right?

You can get a copy of this pattern from Monstra & Mirabilia on Ravelry.

[Photo: Monstra & Mirabilia ]

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