Bespoke Dog Sweaters with Dana Williams-Johnson

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; must have completed a human sweater

Materials and preparation:

• A copy of the human sweater pattern you want to replicate. Dana will help you adapt it for your dog!
• The yarn that you hope to use
• The dog’s measurements for:
  1. Neck
  2. Chest
  3. Distance between front paws
  4. Back length from collar to butt
  5. From neck to top of leg for the yoke

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.