Always wanted to make a matching sweater for your pup? Dana Williams-Johnson will show you how to take a pattern you’ve already knit and convert it for your dog. You’ve already done the hard part; now let’s use up that leftover yarn to make a coordinating sweater!
Skill level
Intermediate/advanced knitter. You must have completed a human sweater.
Materials and preparation
- A copy of the pattern you want to replicate (and feel free to bring in your own finished sweater)
- The yarn you’re using
- The needles that you have gauged for your sweater
- Your dog’s measurements for:
- Neck
- Distance from neck to top of legs for yoke
- Chest
- Distance between front paws
- Back length from collar to butt
About Dana
Dana Williams-Johnson knits every day. Her claim to knitting fame is knitting 27 sweaters in a single year. When not squeezing skeins of yarn or knitting, Dana is working as a professor in Marketing at Howard University in Washington, DC, or spoiling her rescue dogs, Jellybean and Kiwi. Oh, and she spends time with her husband, too. Knitting is what brings Dana joy, and she shows that through her use of color (hello, rainbows) and modifications of favorite patterns into replica sweaters for her dogs. You can read about it all on Dana’s blog, Yards of Happiness.