I can’t get enough of these mini sweaters! After designing a miniature sweater pattern for people, I couldn’t resist making one for our furry friends too. These tiny pet sweaters are the cutest Christmas ornaments, perfect for adding a unique, personal touch to your holiday decor. Whether you hang them on the tree or displaythem around the house, they make a thoughtful and charming gift—and you can easily customise them for that extra special touch.
Find the Tiny Mini Sweater version here.
Construction
The pattern is worked from neck first in the round, before continuing on with the body stitches, where the legs openings are bound off to be picked up later.
What you'll need
Suggested Yarn
DK weight yarn.
Yarn used in sample Semco Stallion 8 Ply Yarn in Red, White and Green from Spotlight.
You will only need one skein of each as you can make quite a few and mix and match the colours up.
Other Yarn Suggestions
I used a simple acrylic yarn for this pattern which is perfect and easy to knit with and wash with. Some yarn suggestions are below:
Suggested Needles
- 3 mm double pointed needles, 6 inch, for the neck, hem and leg cuffs.
- 3.5 mm [US 4] double pointed needles 6 inch, for the body.
Notions
- Yarn Needle to weave in ends
- Stitch Markers
- Scissors
- Scrap Yarn
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Washing & Blocking
Sizes
This pattern comes in one size.
Lying flat the sweater measures approximately:
- 2.75 inches / 7 cm, measuring across the widest point of the body.
- 4.25 inches / 10.5 cm from neck to hem.
- 1.75 inches / 4.5 cm for the sleeve, measuring from the underarm to the cuff.
Gauge
Gauge is not overly important for this pattern, however an estimate of the gauge is:
5.5 stitches x 8 rows = 1 inch / 2.5 cm on 3.5mm needles.
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Abbreviations and Techniques
DPN’s Double pointed needles
BOR Beginning of Round
RS: Right Side
WS: Wrong Side
Increases
M1L: make a left leaning increase knit-wise; pick up the bar between stitches from front to back, knit through the back loop.
Decreases
Right leaning double decrease (RLDD): k2, slip second st from right needle over first, move st from right needle to left needle, slip second st from left needle over right, move the first st back to right needle. (2 sts decreased).
Left leaning double decrease: (LLDD) k1, k2tog, slip the second st on the right needle over the first st. (2 sts decreased)
If you are working your sweater the same as the sample, your neck/hem and cuffs will be Colour A and Body/sleeves will be Colour B, and the duplicate stitching will be Colour C.
Begin
With one of your 3mm DPNs, cast on 27 stitches using Colour A and a long tail cast on (or any cast on of your choice).
Turn your needle and slip the end 3 stitches off the needle on the side without the tail or working yarn. You will have a loop at the end. You now have 24 stitches remaining on the needle.
Now distribute your stitches evenly among 4 DPNs, 6 stitches on each needle. Mark your BOR using a removable marker.
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Round 1-4: *knit 1, purl 1*, repeat from * to * around.
Now switch to your 3.5mm [US 4] DPNs and Colour B.
Round 5: knit 1, M1L, knit to the last stitch, M1L, knit 1.
Round 6: knit to the end.
Repeat Rounds 5 and 6 for a total of 5 repeats. (34 stitches total
Leg openings
Round 1: knit 2, bind off 5 stitches, knit the next 18 stitches, bind off 5 stitches, knit 2 stitches.
Round 2: Knit, casting on 5 sts loosely over cast off sts. You should still have 34 stitches on your needle.
When you've completed the BODY rounds, bind off stitches to complete the body rounds.
Bind Off Round: Bind off the first 2 stitches, knit until you have 2 stitches remaining, bind off 2 sts. Remove the BOR marker. (30 stitches total)
Back Shaping:
Switch to your 3mm needles. You can use regular straight needles or 2 of your DPN's here as you will be working flat. Begin working from the Wrong Side of your work. Decreases are worked on the Right Side of the work.
Row 1 (WS): *knit 1, purl 1* to the end.
Row 2 (RS): knit 1, purl 1, make a LLDD, *knit 1, purl 1*, repeat from * to * to last 4 sts, RLDD, knit 1, purl 1. (4 stitches decreased)
Repeat Rows 1 and 2 for a total of 3 repeats. (18 stitches total)
Duplicate Stitch
With Colour C and a yarn needle, work the duplicate stitch in with any design you prefer. I used letters on mine from https://lifeiscozy.com/patterns/#/cozy-season-stocking/ ( the pattern linked is for a stocking but scroll down to the images and there is a chart of each letter). Please note I am not affiliated with Life is Cozy, but please do check out her wonderful patterns!
