Sole Salvo For Purl Soho: Lucky Dog Sweater in Daily Wool
Is there a very good dog in your life that deserves a very beautiful sweater? We’ve updated Sole Salvo’s best-selling Lucky Dog Sweater pattern so you can knit it in our new Daily Wool, a superwash wool yarn that can stand up to daily walks, daily cuddles, and daily wrestling with your furry best friend!
The Lucky Dog Sweater is truly the best of the best, completely customizable to just about any dog, from yorkies and bulldogs to greyhounds and golden retrievers. The pattern is full of helpful tips for shortening, lengthening, and widening, with different shaping in the belly area for girls and boys!
A yarn you’ll love to knit with and your dog will feel paw-sitively lucky to wear, Daily Wool is a 100% superwash wool, worsted-weight yarn. Round, bouncy, and resistant to pilling, thanks to its 4 sturdy plies, it’s also super soft and will keep fur babies warm on the chilliest days. And of course, the superwash treatment makes it machine wash- and dry-able, too, so you can toss it in the wash whenever it meets a mud puddle.
The beautiful palette spans 24 heathered colors, including the delicate Forget-Me-Not Blue, black-and-white Guinea Hen, and moody Teal Storm we used for our samples.
Sole brought her skills and sensibilities as a fashion designer to this fetching design. You’ll knit in the round, from tail to head, with easy wrap-and-turn short rows to shape the yoke (we have a great tutorial to help you through!).
Lots of 2×2 ribbing allows the sweater to stretch around the contours of your dog’s body for a close yet comfortable fit. The ribbed collar is nice and cozy, too, and easily stretches to fit over ears and snout!
Pick up a few skeins of Daily Wool and cast on for a gorgeous sweater that you and your pup will love… Go on, we double dog dare you!
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Designed for Purl Soho by Sole Salvo. Sole Salvo is fashion designer to the dogs! Under the name Haute Dogue, Sole creates original dog sweater designs, often inspired by high fashion pieces. They are absolutely amazing, and Purl Soho is lucky enough that Sole occasionally writes down a pattern or two for us, including this classic… So smart, so practical, so haute dogue!
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Materials
- 2 (2, 2, 3, 4–5, 6) skeins of Purl Soho’s Daily Wool, 100% superwash wool yarn. Each skein of this worsted/aran-weight yarn is 164 yards/ 100 grams; approximately 180 (205, 325, 480, 665, 885) yards required for female dogs and 165 (205, 320, 470, 650, 845) yards for male dogs. We used the colors Guinea Hen, Forget-Me-Not Blue, and Teal Storm.
- US 6, 16- or 24-inch circular needles (depending on size you are making)
- A set of US 6 double pointed needles
- Stitch markers, including one unique
- Stitch holders or scrap yarn
- A Lucky Dog Sweater Pattern
Gauge
19 stitches and 27 rows/ rounds = 4 inches in stockinette stitch
32 stitches and 27 rows/ rounds = 4 inches in 2×2 rib, unstretched
Sizes
XXS (XS, S, M, L, XL)
To fit chest circumference of approximately 12–15 (15–18, 18–21, 21–24, 24–28, 27–32) inches, with approximately 0–5 inches of negative ease, depending on the size
- Finished Chest Circumference: 12½ (14¼, 17¾, 20¾, 23¾, 27) inches, unstretched
- Finished Neck Circumference: 6½ (7½, 8½, 9½, 10½, 11½) inches, unstretched
- Finished Length from Base of Neck to Base of Tail (Female): 12¼ (13, 15¾, 19, 21½, 25) inches
- Finished Length from Base of Neck to Base of Tail (Male): 12¼ (13¾, 16½, 19¾, 22¼, 25¼) inches
Samples: The sweaters shown here are sizes XXS in Guinea Hen (worn by Dove), XS in Forget-Me-Not Blue (worn by Violet), and S in Teal Storm (worn by Roxy).
PATTERN
The Lucky Dog Sweater is available for purchase as a PDF download only.
Learn About Daily Wool + All Our Beautiful Yarns
This project is incredibly soft and conveniently machine wash- and dry-able in our beautiful Daily Wool, made from 100% superwash wool yarn! Spun into 4 tidy plies, this worsted/aran-weight yarn is un-prone to pilling, with a bounce to its step and a lovely stitch definition. Daily Wool is what makes knitting fun… 24/7!
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I’m making the lucky dog sweater, and I got lost going from the divide chest + back to the back section.
Row two of divide chest section has me moving stitches onto scrap yarn on the wrong side.
Row one of the back section says I’m back on the right side, but it doesn’t say anywhere to turn your work. I have this big gap where I took those stitches off the needle. Am I supposed to be pulling those two needles together and knit over the gap? I don’t understand.
Hi Kim,
Thanks for writing in! Since you’re working back and forth in rows now, the “turn work” is implied. We wrote it out in Row 1, since this is the first row you’re doing after working in the round for a while, but it applies to all the other rows too! You should be turning your work at the end of each row throughout the Back and Chest section, up until you work the Joining Round in the Join Chest + Back section. Hope this helps clarify things!
All the best,
Lili
Hello, Row 1 in the Chest section has M1R as the first stitch. How can this be done? Is kfb an acceptable alternative? Thanks!
Hi Nadia,
The first stitch in Row 1 of the Chest section is still attached to the last stitch of the first row of the Back! You can still work a m1R into the bar between these two stitches as normal.
All the best,
Lili
Hello I have another question. I am working the yoke short rows and the ssp instructions at the beginning of the pattern (sl2 knit wise then ptbl) differ from the instructions linked in the pattern (sl1 purlwise, sl1 knitwise). Which one should I do? The previous row uses ssk (sl1 knitwise, sl1 purlwise). Thanks!
Hi Nadia,
I can help you while Lili is out! We’d recommend using the instruction in the pattern since that was used for these specific samples.
Happy knitting,
Gavriella
Ok great thanks. There weren’t any specific instructions for ssk so I did it the standard way. I appreciate the help!
Hello! I own the Lucky Dog pattern from the Linen Quill Worsted days. I plan to knit another with Daily Wool. Are there pattern changes with the new yarn or can I proceed with the original pattern?
Thanks!
Hi Kristin,
Thanks for checking with us about this! The pattern is exactly the same so you can totally use the original pattern. (Or if you want the latest version with the new photos in Daily Wool, you can re-download it from your Purl Soho account!)
All the best,
Lili
In the super cute Lucky Dog Sweater pattern, should there be additional markers placed in the Yoke section? I’m having a difficult time figuring out the instructions, thinking the “knit to the next marker” isn’t referring to the markers already in place due to the short rows?
Hi Beth,
Thanks for writing in! There is a marker that gets placed in Round 1 of the Yoke that is easily missed, so I want to make sure you didn’t miss that one. Here’s Round 1 with the “pm” in bold:
Round 1: [K2, p2] 3 times, sm, knit to next marker, sm, [p2, k2] 3 times, pm, p2, *k2, p2, repeat from * to end of round.
Once you’ve placed this marker, you should have 3 total stitch markers on your needles!
1) Your end-of-round marker.
2) The first marker, 12 stitches after the end-of-round marker.
3) The second marker, 12 stitches after the beginning of the ribbing after the stockinette portion of the Back.
I’d recommend double checking to see if all these markers are present, and if not, placing any that are missing!
All the best,
Lili
Hello—
I’m struggling with knowing how much yarn (Daily Wool) to buy for my large whippet (Rugby!) for the Lucky Dog Pattern. He has a 27’ chest diameter and 25 “ from middle neck to sacrum. He weighs 47 pounds. Again, he is a “large sized” but very trim/muscular whippet. I wish I could send you a photo as you would definitely understand if you saw him!
Hi Catherine,
It sounds like you will need to make the XL size for your pup! In that case you will need 6 skeins of Daily Wool.
I hope this helps!
Happy knitting,
Gavriella
I am making the XS size. So far so good.
Page 6
Section: Sizes XXS and XS Only
Begins with: Short Row 5
Is this a short row?
There is no Wrap and Turn indicated.
Hi Jeffrey,
I’m glad that everything has been going smoothly so far! Short Row 5 is technically a short row since it begins from the previous short row’s wrp-t and therefore doesn’t actually cover all the stitches on your needles. It’s the final row before you begin working in the round again, so there is no wrp-t at the end since you’ll need to continue knitting in the same direction going forward!
All the best,
Lili
Hi Lil
for the extra extra small size would you use double points once you begin knitting in the round?
My sister has a tiny dog
Thank You
Hi Patty,
Yep, exactly! The finished circumference of that size isn’t wide enough to fit comfortably around 16-inch circular needles, so DPNs (or longer circulars and magic loop) are the best way to go!
All the best,
Lili
I’m reading through the instructions and having a hard time figuring out where the holes for the sleeves are made. Are they made in the chest section or yoke. What stitches create the holes for attaching the sleeves?
Hi Linda,
Great question! The holes for the sleeves are created when you work the Chest and Back separately. That creates two slits on either side of the Chest, which is where you’ll pick up stitches for the sleeves eventually. Hope this helps you visualize things!
All the best,
Lili