Granny square dog sweaters can be joined as you go, worked with standard DK yarn, followed as a beginner video project, or made from a published Red Heart pattern. These eight original resources explain their stated construction and material approach.
A tapestry needle for finishing the seams is the one tool every construction style here shares.
Granny square dog sweater patterns to explore
1. Odie
Odie is a Berroco pattern in sizes S, M and L, worked from classic granny squares with the join-as-you-go technique, so it is seamless. It uses one ball of Berroco Lanas Light and a Lanas Light Mini Color Pack, with a G-6 (4 mm) hook and three 12 mm buttons. The finished width is 15 to 20 inches and the length neck to tail 15 to 30 inches, and a granny square of rounds 1 to 5 is 4 inches across.
2. Granny Square Dog Sweater
Firefly Fiber Arts Studio teaches the classic granny square through this dog sweater, and you need to be comfortable with basic stitches. It takes 50 to 500 yards of DK weight yarn on an H/8 (5 mm) hook, depending on the size of your dog, and the sample uses The Fibre Co &Make DK. The pattern is a download from their shop.
3. Beginner Friendly Granny Square Dog Sweater
This is a beginner-friendly video tutorial for a granny square dog sweater, so you can follow along as it is made. It is video only, with no written pattern on the page.
4. Dog’s Crochet Granny Square Sweater
Red Heart’s granny square dog sweater is rated Intermediate and comes in small, medium and large. It is a free download with no sign-up, and the listing has a 3.0 rating from 4 reviews, so read the reviews first. Yarnspirations sells the yarn as a kit.
5. Easy Crochet Dog Sweater
Jess Coppom’s sweater comes in nine sizes to fit very small to very large dogs, in Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice (two colors) plus a bit of DIYarn, on a K (6.5 mm) hook. It uses simple crochet and simple seaming, with 2 to 4 optional wooden buttons, and the tutorial includes notes to customize the fit, since every dog is a different shape.
6. Willow Granny Square Dog Coat
The Willow granny square dog coat is a beginner project made entirely of granny squares, using chains, double crochets, trebles, slip stitches, single crochet and seaming, in Paintbox Simply DK on a 3.5 mm hook. It has written instructions and a video, with buttons to match, and the ad-free PDF is sold separately.
7. Great Granny Dog Sweater
Red Heart’s Great Granny Dog Sweater is rated Easy, in sizes S, M/L and XL. It uses Red Heart All In One Granny Square yarn (250 g), a yarn that changes color for you, so you do not switch yarns as you go. It is a free download with no sign-up.
8. Urban Granny Dog Sweater
Lion Brand’s Urban Granny Dog Sweater is rated Easy and made from super bulky Wool-Ease Thick & Quick, in sizes S, M, L and 1X. It is a free pattern download, and the yarn is sold as a kit, with the original colors in the pattern if the listed ones are out of stock.
