🎃🐶 Get ready to spook up your pup’s style with the This is Halloween dog sweater – a knitting extravaganza that’s frightfully fun! 🧶👻 This one-of-a-kind sweater is a magical mix of colourwork, stripes, and a playful stitch pattern, celebrating the spirit of Halloween with bats and ghosts dancing all around!
Picture your furry friend strutting their stuff in this whimsical masterpiece, featuring contrasting trim and bold striped sleeves that add a dash of spooktacular charm. 🦇🌈
Whether you’re an experienced colorwork wizard or eager to try your hand at something new, This is Halloween will have you cackling with delight as you create this frightful and fabulous dog sweater. 🌙🎉
Knit up this howl-worthy design and watch your pup become the center of attention at any Halloween party or trick-or-treat adventure. 🎃🐾 So, grab your needles, select your favorite spooky colors, and let’s conjure up a canine costume that’s as boo-tiful as it is fun! 👻🧶 Unleash the Halloween magic and treat your pup to the most ghoulishly delightful dog sweater ever! 🎃🐕🌟
This pattern is available here:
Pattern Notes:
This sweater is knit top down, in the round with a stranded colourwork and striped yoke. Instructions for the optional leash hole are included before the first colourwork motif.
The armholes are first knit flat in scrap yarn, and are later picked up and finished for a totally seamless sleeve, with matching stripes and trim to the rest of the sweater.
The lower body features a slipped stitch motif before the tummy shaping. The shaping is customizable for your dog’s unique shape, and is finished with the same ribbing as the collar.
Techniques:
-long tail cast on
-increasing
-decreasing
-knitting in the round
-knitting flat
-stranded colourwork
-picking up stitches
-jogless join
Sizing:
XS, S (M, L, XL) to fit a chest measurement of;
11-13, 13-16 (16-20, 20-24, 24-28)”
28-33, 33-40 (40-51, 51-61, 62-71)cm
Suggested Yarn:
Paintbox Simply DK
Yardage:
MC (black) 85, (110, 150, 180, 260) yards / 78, (101, 138, 165, 229) m
CC1 (green) 20 (25, 25, 30) 40 yards / 13, (18, 23, 27) 37 m
CC2 (purple) 80, (105, 145, 175, 255) yards / 73, (96, 132, 160, 233) m
CC3 (white) 10 (12, 15, 17) 20 yards / 9 (11, 13, 16) 18 m
These are yardage estimates, the amount of yarn you use will depend on your tension, needles and yarn
Videos:
Seven linked video tutorials to help with this fun sweater.
- Bind Off & Cast On For Leash Hole
- M1L & M1R increases
- Picking Up & Knitting Seamless Sleeves
- Jogless Join (for stripes)
- Two Colour Stranded Colourwork
- Tummy Shaping and Edge Stitches
- Surprisingly Stretch Bind Off