How To Knit a Simple Dog Sweater

1. How To Knit A Simple Dog Sweater: Hey everyone, I'm Hafdis and I'm a designer and knitter. So today I'm going to show you how to create this knitted dog sweater. And this class is for anyone who likes to knit, whether it'd be a beginner or someone more advanced. And the class will be divided into five sections. And then we'll have one extra section at the end. So in the first section, we're going to go over how to cast on your needles and start on the back portion. This part here. And in the second section, we're going to start knitting in the round. So we'll cast on some additional stitches and then join the back to the additional stitches. to start knitting in the round. In the third section we will start knitting the sleeves. So, the sleeves or as well knitted in the round. We'll go over how to cast on joining them in the round and start knitting the sleeves and then go over how to attach them to the body. The fourth section is all about making the pattern and how to decrease our stitches while we knit to the top of our sweater. Then as well, we will go over how to finish our neckline. And in the fifth and final section, we'll go over how to finish the sweater off. So we will go over how to graft under the arms, as well as how to suture in all the yarn tails. And then we have one additional section where I'll go over how I like to wash the sweaters made of Icelandic wool. You can use this method for all the wools or wool blend yarn. But you can also skip over this part if you're using a different yarn that doesn't need hand-washing. So what you will need for this course are knitting needles. Size 3.5mm, or US 3 and 4.5mm or US 7 you will need both circular needles as well as double pointed needles. And you will also need a yarn of your choice that fits the needle size Sewing needle, some stitch markers. As well as scissors. will provide you with a PDF pattern of this dog sweater. It's called Ör, which means arrow in Icelandic. And I've also included a PDF yarn guide So you can have a look at that if you're unsure of what yarn to use. I've had so much fun creating this dog sweater pattern, and I hope you will have just as much fun making it with me, So let's get started. 2. S1-P1: Casting On: Alright, so we're gonna start on the first section. So I have my yarn right here and my circular knitting needles, size 4.5 mm (US 7) And I'm doing size medium of the Dog sweater. So you're going to have to cast on the same amount of stitches as the size that you are making says. So for size medium, which I'm doing what I'm supposed to cast on 33. So I'm just going to start. So how I like to cast on is that I take the yarn right here, use my finger here, and I hold it like this. And I'm going to take my needle, put it down, take this one. And I go under this. And I let that go. Now, I go under here and here. And so now I have three and I keep doing this until I have 33. Okay. So I have 33 stitches on my needles. And now we're going to start with the back portion so that one is going to be needed back and forth. So I start like this. And if you look at the pattern, it says that you're supposed to knit back and forth with a rib stitch. And what a rib stitch is you do, you alternate between knitting and purling. So we're going to start with the first one. You're supposed to do three rounds of rib stitch. So I'm going to do a regular knit then we do a purl and we do a knit and purl And so we alternate between these two, knitting and purling. all the way over. Now we've done the first round and we have to repeat two more rounds of the rib stitch. So the first one was with the front of the sweater and now we're doing the back of the sweater. And to make it look like a rib stitch from the front, we need to do we need to do the opposite to the first round we need to do a purl where we did knit sitch and we need to knit where we did purl So you can see here this one was purl. So then we do purl stitch here. This one was a purl on the front. It looks like knitted here. So we do knitting here so it starts looking like this. So it's basically the opposite. So we started with knitted stitch and then purl on the front. And here we start with purl and then we do knit. Right? Now we're almost done with row number two. We need one more. Now we're back to the same side as the first one. So we start knitting. And then we do a purl stitch. Alright, so we have finished the first part. Now after finishing three rounds of rib stitch, we're supposed to do, alternate between knitting and rib stitching only the first two and the last two. Sorry he first three, and the last three stitches. And the stitches in the middle. They will be knit stitch from the front and purl stitch from the back. So now we're going to start, so now we're going to start from the front. So we're going to do 1 purl, 1 knit, and 1 purl. Then, depending on the size that you are making, we need to make the right amount of knit stitches here I do 27 because I'm doing size medium, but it depends on the size you're making, but the last three will be left. So basically you can just do regular knitting all the way towards the end and just leave out the last three stitches. So now I have three left and then I'm going to do purl stitch, 1 knit, 1 purl stitch. So this is how it's going to be. So now we're gonna do the backside. 3. S1-P2: Knitting the Back: Then we're going to start with, so we do the opposite. We ended with a purl, so we start with a knit stitch and we do a purl and a stitch And the ones here in the middle that we did knitting on the front. And now all purl stitches from the back. So we have to Purl all the way over just leaving the last three stitches of the round. Okay, so now we have the last three, 1 knitting 1 purl Stitch and 1 knit Alright, so we continue like this. For a couple of centimeters. It depends on the size you're making for me for size medium, I'm supposed to do this for like 12 centimeters. So we will just continue like this. Alternating between knitting and, purling the first three, the you knit. Until the last three, you do alternate again between purling and knitting. And then on the opposite, the middle stitches are all purl. Gonna do two more rounds. So you can see a bit clearer. How this will look. And then I will leave you here and meet you again. When I'm getting close to finishing these 12 centimeters. The length of this piece, the back piece can also depend on the size of your dog. If you're making the sweater for your own dog, you can actually measure the dog from the hips, the hip bone towards the shoulder blades or stuff or something like that. A little bit behind the shoulder blades. So this part is going to be, well maybe measure around five to ten centimeters behind the legs. So you can measure from five to ten centimeters behind the legs and then back towards the, Towards the hips or how long? Depending on how long you want this back portion to be. Because of course some dog breeds have very short backs. Others have very long backs. So you don't have to go exactly by the lengths that are in the pattern itself. All right, so now it's looking like this. So these first three and the last three are going to be similar to the bottom here, where we alternate. And then the middle is just gonna be a regular knitting. Okay, so now I'm going to leave you here and I will see you again when I'm almost finished with these 12 centimeters. Alright, so now we're back and I'm just going to measure this. I need it to be around 12th centimeters, so I'm missing around half a centimeter. So I'm just going to do two more rounds, just back-and-forth. Okay. Then I'm just gonna do one more back. So you want to end this piece on the left side here, seen from the right side. (front) So I'm going to need to go one more round so that I end at the right place. For the next section of the sweater. Just gonna I'm gonna measure this up. So now we have reached the 12th centimeters. To end this section, I'm going to take two stitch markers. And I'm going to put at, put them at either end one this side and one on this side here. And these stitch markers, they mark our back piece. Okay, so now you have finished the first section. 4. S2: Knitting in the Round: All right, so now we're going to go into the second section. We're going to start going in the round. So what we need to do is we need to cast on additional stitches. And you cast on as many stitches as you did for the back. I cast on 33 stitches, so I need to cast on additional 33 stitches. There are many different ways to cast on additional stitches. You can do the same method as when we cast on originally. You can do it like this. And you get two stitches at a time. I personally prefer to just do it like this. So let's just take one just make a loop and put it on here. For me, it looks just more even like this, but you can do this with any method that works for you. So you just cast on us equal amount of stitches as you did in the beginning. Depending on the size of sweater that you are making. See, so I have my marker here, and this marks the last stitch of the back. So I'm going to count from there, So I have 33 stitches. And now we're going to join our pieces together and start knitting in the round. So our back portion is going to be needed with regular knitting. And our belly portion that we just cast on. It's going to be needed with a rib stitch for three rounds. So we just knit regularly over here. Okay. And we have the marker here and marks the last stitch of the back so the stitch marker that is here on the left side of the back. It marks the beginning of the round. So now we're gonna do a rib stitch for the belly portion. So we're gonna do knit and Purl. Just like we did at the beginning, we alternate between knitting and purling. And can, it can be a little bit tricky these first, first-round to get the newly cast on stitches, but don't worry about it too much. We alternate between being a bit tricky. So now we've finished the belly. This stitch marks the beginning of the back and we're just going to do regular. Just knit all over the back portion. All right. So now we have finished the first round of the rib stitch. So we're gonna do two more rounds of rib stitch on the belly and regular knitting on the back. So I'll see you after, after finishing that. Alright, so now I have finished three rounds of a rib stitch on the belly and knitting on the back. Just going to move my stitch marker a little bit higher. So it's easier to see which stitch is marked. So now we're gonna go to the next part of this piece. So now after doing three rounds of rib stitch, we're just gonna do regular knitting all around. And depending on the length of the sweater that you're making, which size or if you're doing for your own dog, and you're doing after his measurements It will be the length from the hip bone of the dog and to the elbows or like the back of the front legs. So we're just going to knit all the way round. And you just keep going like this all around, just regular netting until you get the length you want or that is required by the pattern. For me, I'm doing size medium, so I'm gonna do around 22 centimeters from the cast on and towards the knitting needles. So I will see you then. Right. So now I have finished knitting 22 centimeters. Just going to measure to double check So, we have 22 centimeters. I'm going to take out the stitch marker that I have. No, I'm not going to take it out. I'm just going to move it up. So it will be easier to see when we start attaching our sleeves. So like for the legs, I'm going to move this stitch marker up as well. Now our back portion is finished. We have finished the second section, and I'll see you for the third one. 5. S3-P1: Starting on the Sleeves: Alright, so now that we've finished our body, we're just going to leave it here on our circular needles and put that aside. I'm going to take our double pointed needles and we're going start on the sleeves. So you'll need to start casting on as many stitches as the size that you are doing implies. And doing so it's medium. I need to cast on 18 stitches. So I'm just gonna do like I did casting on the body. Alright, so 18 stitches. And we need to divide the stitches onto 4 needles. Alright, so I have four stitches on three needles, and I have one needle here with six stitches. I like to keep even numbers. It's easier when doing the rib stitch. Now we need to get these in the round. So the sleeves are knitted in the round all the way. Just layering this up like this. And we're going to start with a rib stitch again, like before we do, we alternate between knitting and purling. So the first one, knitting, a little bit tricky. The first one, right. And purl You've finished the first needle and we just go around like this alternating between knitting and purling One needle left of the first round. We're going to do three rounds just like we did on the body. We finished the first round. We go into the second round. I've done two rounds of this. Just going to finish the last one and then I'll see you guys again. Right. So I have finished the three rounds of rib stitch. So now we need to increase by six stitches over the round. So we will have, well for me, so it's medium, will have 24 stitches in total. So I'm just going to increase by six stitches. Increase by one. increase by two increase by 3, 4, 5, and 6 All right, so we've increased by six stitches. And after that, the increase is done in regular knitting. And now I'm just going to put a marker to mark the last stitch of the round here ,where the yarn tail is, this is the last stitch and we're just going to keep knitting in the round. Just regular knitting all around until we get the length that we desire, or according to the pattern. For size medium is around 7 cm. So I'm going to keep knitting all around until I have around 7 cm. As you can see, I am making sure that there won't be any space here between because of the needles. So I'm knitting. Like this. You don't have to do that if you don't want to. But I have found that using double pointed needles and not doing this sometimes creates space between the needles that can go up the whole sleeve. So I like to do it like this, but you don't have to. You can just leave it here and then start on the next needle. But like I said, it can create a void between. So that's a problem we don't have with circular needles. So we don't see that on the body. And I do not want to see that on the sleeves. Which is why I tend to do it like this. But here it's starting to come together. So we'll just keep knitting like this all around until our desired length. Alright, so I will see you then. 6. S3-P2: Finishing the Sleeves: I'm just gonna measure this. I decided that I actually just want around 6 cm. I want it a little bit shorter. So basically if you want to do your own length, you just measure from the elbow of the dog and down the leg length that you want. You can do an extra long, one extra short, whatever you want basically. So now I've finished one of the sleeves. So now we're getting ready to attach the sleeve to the body. And if you read the pattern, you see that you need to put 6 stitches on a stitch holder or yarn or something. So I'm just gonna put it on a yarn. So basically I'm thinking about, this is my end stitch of the round here. So I'm going to have three stitches from the right side of that and three stitches from the left side. This one here. So let's get that out of the way. And 1,2,3,4,5,6 so these 6 stitches here. they are the middle. They're gonna go on a stitch holder, or I'd just like to use some leftover yarn for this. And I'm just going to put these 6 stitches onto this piece of yarn. So basically we knit it, and then we pull through. So the yarn goes through the stitch. And this is going to hold off the stitches underneath the arms that we're going to graft later. Then I'm just going to tie this off. We have the six stitches and we take the marker off. Now we're going to attach the sleeve to the body. First, I'm going to take some leftover yarn here. And we need quite a long yarn before the grafting later because we need to add additional stitches underneath the arms. But I will show you that later. I'm just going to put all of these here inside. So it's not in my way as I attach the sleeve to the body. So now that we have the body here, the first sleeve is going to come right after our stitch marker here. And that marks the end of the back. So this is going to be, keep, keep being the marker for the beginning of each round. So we need to put the first 6 stitches here on another stitch holder or a piece of yarn. So we do the same thing, put six stitches on this yarn. And we just tie that off. And now we're going to attach our sleeve. So the parts that are on the stitch holder or the, the yarn, they are going to come together. So we're going to graft this together later. So we need to knit from here and we need to start knitting together from this side. So I just put these together. And then we just knit regularly right here. Just knit all the stitches on the sleeve. Okay? And then last few stitches. Alright, so now we have attached the first sleeve to our body right here. And I'm going to knit right over here to where the second sleeve is going to be. So that will be ready to be attached. And if you read your pattern, it says, how many stitches of the belly here you need to knit until the next sleeve. I'm doing the size medium, so I need to knit 21 stitches Okay. And then the next 6 stitches will again go on a stitch holder or leftover yarn. So now we're ready to make our second sleeve the same way we made our first one. So I will see you guys after you have finished the second sleeve. I have finished the second sleeve right here. So we're just going to attach, attach it to our body right here. So we're gonna do the same with going to make sure that the stitches that we have on the stitch holder, they match to the stitches on the stitch holder on the body. And then we're just going to knit this sleeve right to the body like this. Now we can just finish this around. So we're just going to knit the back of the sweater. Alright, so our stitch marker here marks the end of the round. So now we have both of our sleeves attached to the body right here. Now, I don't need this stitch marker anymore. I'm going to take that one off. All right, so now we have finished this section. 7. S4-P1: Starting the Pattern: Alright, so now we're going to start section 4, now we're going to get into the pattern itself. If you take a look at the pattern that you have, there are certain rounds that you leave out depending on the size that you make. So we have to be careful of those depending on the size you're doing. I'm doing size medium. And so I start with round 2, that is the first round, which is all in the main color. So that's the dark gray that I have been using. So I'm just doing a whole round of this dark grey color. And like I said, if you check the pattern, you can see that there are certain rounds that to leave out, so you just need to be careful of those. And you start reading the pattern from the bottom up and from the right to the left. So basically you're reading the pattern in the same way you're knitting, knitting from the right to the left, towards the left. So we're going to read the pattern the same way. So when we're doing the pattern, like this one, and we're going to add three additional colors to our main color. So we're going to work with four colors for this pattern. You can change the colors of the pattern. You can draw it differently if you want, if you want to use fewer colors, if you find four colors a little bit much, then you can do that. So I'm just going to continue all the way here, all the way around. So I'm almost done with the first first round of the pattern. If you're doing the smaller sizes, like XS or S, then you're not going to your first round is not going to be round one because that's a leave out around. So basically you're going to start with round three. But but that's fine. Just go by the pattern by the size that you are making. Alright, so we've done the first round of the pattern. And now I'm going into the, what is the second round for size medium? This is the third round for the smaller sizes. Right? So we're gonna attach blue and grey and I'm going to start with the blue one. So if you check the pattern, there's a small dot on the right side. I'm gonna do that one in blue. And I want to keep my main color to the left of the additional colors. It just makes the pattern look better. Then we do two of our main color. Then I'm going to start with what I call the arrow, which is where my pattern gets its name from, basically, because it comes down a bit like a big arrow. That one I'm going to have in this Grey, looks like my yarn is all rolled up right here. So then I'm going to attach this grey. And basically if you look at the rounds, you keep doing this. You do two of your main color. Then you do the dot that I have in blue. Then you do two in your main color, and then you do the first arrow color. So it's gonna look like this. You always have two of the main. And then every other as the other two colors that you have, you're going to do this all around. And you just want to make sure that it doesn't get too stretched here. I like to sometimes pull a little bit so when it stretches, it has some room to stretch. So make sure that they don't get too tight right here. Alright, so I'm going to keep doing this all around. So I'm just going to speed up, speed up this process. All right, so now we have finished the first round. We're going to go into the second round. Again. Make sure you read which which rows you need to leave out depending on the size you're making. Only the extra large size does not need any rows left out. All of the other sizes will have some rows that you need to leave out of the pattern. Alright, so I'm going to start with the second row of my patterns. So I do 2 stitches of my main color. And then I have three of the grey. So we're doing that arrow keep going with the arrow. So we're going to do this all around. So we have three stitches of the main color and three stitches of the arrow color. Like for me, I'm using the grey. This is how it's gonna look. We have this dot right here that I did in blue. And then we have the start of our arrow forming right here. We're going to go all the way around like this. And then we're just going to keep going up the pattern. And so I'm going to leave you here and I will see you again when we need to start decreasing on the pattern. 8. S4-P2: Decreasing: All right, so now I have finished the first round, and I have made this whole round here white. And the next row after the white row is the first decrease row. So I'm going to go over that with you if you're unsure of how to do that. So if we go by the pattern, we're going to start. Well, basically if we look at the pattern here, we have the point here of our arrow. So this one here is going to be a different color. This is the first stitch of the cross or the flower or whatever you want to call that. So we're going to do one stitch. The next two, we're going to stitch together. So this is our first decrease. And then we're going to do our first stitch of the flower. I'm doing it in the dark gray. And then we do three. We do three, white. Then we do another decrease, two together. Then again, we're going to do this all the way around. We're gonna do three white. The next two we're going to knit together. So we'll do a decrease. And then we're gonna do one in the other color, gonna do three. These two together. And then we do the color right here. So the color here, whichever color you've chosen for the cross or the flower is always going to be where the pointy end of the arrow comes down here, where the middle of our arrow is. Alright, so you're just going to continue all the way around just like that. And I'm just going to speed, speed through this process and I'll see you when I'm done. All right? All right, so now we have finished all around with our decrease. Then we're just going to continue with our pattern. So in the next one we're going to continue with the pattern right here. And it does not have any decrease at all. So we're just gonna keep working our way through the pattern. Can be a little bit messy here behind because of all the colors. But you get used to it. to be honest. When I'm working with these many colors, I personally like to put them around like this. I have my white here and the bue, the gray and the dark one. So I have them around and I have the same one here. I have that, the white furthest to the right, and then I have the blue, then I have the gray, and then I have the black. So I personally just find it easier to keep them like this, but you can just find a way that works for you. But yeah, I like to have them organised. If to say, Yeah, and again, just always make sure that's not too tight in the back when you're working the colors in. So now our second row is coming together. And I'm just gonna speed over this. And I will see you when this row is finished and we'll go over the second decrease row. All right, So I am here at the beginning and I'm going to move, I like to move my marker closer to where I'm working. For me It's just easier to see the end of the round. So I have finished this round. So the next round that we're going into is our second decrease round. So we're going to do, again similar to the first one. So basically here, I'm going to knit the first two together. And then I'm going to do the last one off the flower. We're going to knit 1,2. And then we're going to knit the next two together. And then we're going to do two next two together. Then the flower color, 2 knitting. One together. And then this one. So now it's coming together like this. So we have our, you can call it a cross or a flower. Basically, whatever you feel like, we're going to continue like this all around. We always knit 2 white and then we knit 2 stitches together. Then we put our second color and we're going to go all the way around like this. And then we're going to continue our next rounds for the pattern. And I will see you again for the next decrease around. 9. S4-P3: Knitting the Neckline: Alright, so now I have finished up towards the last decrease, right? So I have basically cut off all the other colors because I don't need those colors anymore and I just have the last color of the pattern here. And I'm just going to start that off. So I'm going to knit one. Then we do two together. And then we knit two. And we do one together. We knit two. Then we'll do the next two together. We knit two and then do two together. We knit 2 and 2 together and we go all around like this. We knit 2 and two together. We knit two and then 2 together So this is around 19. If you're following any other size pattern, but this is 19. The last decrease round of the sweater. Size, medium and the smaller sizes. This for them, this is the last round. But if you're doing the bigger sizes then you have some additional rounds after the decrease. But it's alright, so now we're here in the end. So now we've finished the pattern. Well, if you have bigger the bigger sizes and you're doing one or two additional rows after this one. But for me and size medium, this is the last round. So if you have the bigger sizes, do the next 1 or 2 rounds and then follow me. Now cause, what we're gonna do now is we're going to change to our smaller needle size, 3.5 millimeters. And we've got to start doing the last part of the neck line here, which is again like we did in the beginning. It's gonna be rib stitch. So we're going to change between knitting and purling. So just gonna do like this. I'm gonna take my smaller needle. According to your pattern. You're gonna change and we're going to do the first, first round knitted all the way. So we can change the needle size. We're just going to continue all the way like this. Just so now I have my smaller needles. Right. So we've finished the first round of the neck line, which is knitted all the way around. And now we're going to do two rows of a rib stitch. So we're going to interchange between knitting and purling again, like we did in the beginning of the body as well as the sleeves. So we're just gonna do it like that. If you're doing the smaller sizes than medium, you might want to use your double pointed needles for this. I might have actually used them because it's a little bit tight but I'm not doing that many rounds. So it's gonna be okay. Just gonna do this all the way and then do one more round. And I'm just going to finish doing that, and then I'll come back. Alright, so I have finished two rows of rib stitch right here. So now we're going to start casting off. One thing to make sure of is to not cast on too tight. And if you do have a dog, like a Russian toy or Chihuahua or something that has a very thin neck, then it might be okay. But especially if you're doing size extra large and you're doing it for a French bulldog, for example. They have much thicker necks. So you would want to make sure that you don't cast off too tight. So I like to do the casting off method. It's basically called loose cast-off. So what I'm gonna do is we're gonna do it like we did the rib stitch. So we're going to do, alternate between knitting and purling. So we're gonna do always two stitches. And then we take the one in the back and would take it over the one in the front. And you want to make sure that this is a little bit loose. If you make it too tight, the casting off will be a bit tight. So we knit the next one. And then again we take the one in the back and we'll put it over the one in the front. This the way we do it, we just go around like this until we have cast off all the stitches that we have on the needles. So as you can see, it's starting to come off. I'm just going to finish all the way over and then I'll see you there. Alright, so now I have come to the end. So I have my last stitch on my needle. So I'm just going to basically knit this last one, cut the yarn and pull through And so now you have finished all the knitting part. So now we're just going to go into our finishing section. So how to finish off all the ends grafting under the arms and so on. So I'll see you there. 10. S5-P1: Grafting Under the Arms: Alright, so now we're gonna go into the fifth section of this course and we're going to start with grafting or suturing under their arms or we're gonna close this together. One thing about, normally most sweaters, like for people, we have our hands go down like this. So this suturing them together like this would be fine. But for dogs, their legs actually come down. So this needs to go like this bit down. So we need to add a few rows here to this, to extend this part a little bit so that we add some movement. The sleeve here, if we just attach it like this, there's not much room for the dog to move its legs. So we're gonna start with that. And this is why we left a long tail of yarn of our sleeves here. So how many rows you add depends on the size you're making. So read your pattern carefully. I am making size medium, so I need to add around 6 rows here. So I put my double pointed needle (size 4.5mm) right here through the stitches that my yarn is holding, then I'm just cutting my yarn, pull through. So now I have all my six stitches on my needle. I'm going to take another needle. And now we're going to knit six rows back-and-forth. So now I'm on the back end. So for this side, I'm going to do purling stitch all the way over just like that. So now we have done one row and we're going to turn this around. Now we have, we're going to knit on this side. So we're going to knit all the way over. We have done two rows and we just go back and forth like this. Three rows Four rows So for size medium, we do six rows. It can be anywhere from five, to 7, 8 rows depending on the size that you are making. So just make sure that you go by the pattern. All right, so now we're going to put our other stitches onto our second needle right here. Again, I'm going to cut this off. So now we're going to start suturing these together. It's also called grafting. So you're going to need and suturing needle. And you're just going to. So how I like to do this is I like to suture these two together so it leaves a bit of a hole right here. But I will fix that later. So I want to find the stitch here that is next to the one that I'm holding. So that will be this one. And we're going to go down into this stitch. And we're gonna go up into this stitch here. We're going to pull through. And then I'm going again. Down, into this one, up and into this one here. Need to make sure that you are going up into the stitch so that it comes down like a V. I'll show you. So we go down into this stitch here. We go up and we go in here. So it looks like a V or a U or like a horseshoe or something. Go up here. And then we go here down into this stitch and we go up into this one. And just pull, just make sure you don't pull too tightly. Down here. Up and into this one. As you can see, it's starting to look like the knitting. We're getting this V thing that we have going on. With this stitches. You can see it's starting to form form a V. So it doesn't have to be perfect. You can always fix it or suture better later if you're not happy with it. This is just under the arm is not something that is easily seen. So don't worry about making it perfect. The first time I did this, it was far from perfect to be honest. It takes a bit of practice, go down and take the last one here and here, and up into the last one. Then I'm just like to put my hand under here. So as you can see, we have sutured these together, but there are two big holes here on the side. So next we're going to fix this. We're going to start with this one here, since we are on that site already. And I'm going to go down into this stitch. I'm going up here and I'm going to go under under like this. And we're going to go here, suture this one. I'm going to go down here. There's no specific formula for this. Basically, I am just suturing the two parts together. But I'm trying to do it in a way that the stitches are hidden inside the V's so you don't really see the suture. I'm just going to put the needle down here. So as you can see, up close the gap on this side. Now, I need to close this one. So I'm gonna go here on the inside. And I'm basically just going to move my yarn over to the other side. And I do this by going into the back loops off the stitches here. Just makes sure that you don't pull too tight and just go lightly. It's just about moving the yarn over. Okay. So now we are in this hole right here and we're gonna do the same thing. We're going to suture this whole together. So we'd go down and up here. Go down here. Like I said, you don't have to hit the exact same stitches as I am. I'm not doing this by any specific formula. I'm just closing the gap. That's all I'm doing. I'm just closing the gap. Alright, so we have some little bit of a hole here and then I want to fix just going to put my yarn here, under here and down here. Then we have closed, so we have closed all the way around. And I'm just going to cut the yarn here. And so now you have finished grafting under this sleeve. So we're gonna do the exact same thing on this side. So I will see you when that is finished. 11. S5-P2: Finishing Touches: All right, so now that we have sutured of grafted under both of the arms, where you can see that we have added a lot of movement to the leg. Now we're going to finish off all of these ends. So you're going to need a needle and some scissors. And we're just going to suture this in. And again, there's no like specific, scientific thing behind this. I just tried to suture them somewhere in here that you cannot see the ends. So here we have a part of the rib stitch. So I'm just gonna put this in here. You can see, you can't really see it. I'm going to pull a little bit on the yarn, cut here. And then just even this out. So you can't really see the end right here. Then we have on both of our sleeves, to suture these in as well. I'd like to start by connecting these two together here. So there's not a hole. And then I'm just going to put this inside out. I'm just going to go down. You're going to cut the end. If you have a wool yarn like me, these ends, they get blended in even more after washing so you don't really see them. And then we're going to do the same thing. on this sleeve, so you can see there's a little bit of a gap, it comes down a little bit. So this is what I'm trying to hide. I'm trying to even out like this. Then we do like this, and then we have top part here. And as you can see, there's also a dip in here. So we want to tie this together. So I'm just gonna go here through here like this, so it ties it's better together. And then we go here. We just go down to right here. Cut this off. Just like this. Now I have finished all of the ends that we can see, but there are some more inside. We're going to turn this Inside Out. Go over all of the ends that we can possibly see. All right, so we have one here. This is one of the ends from grafting the sleeve. I'm just doing loosely going into some of the sutures. Like I said, no specific formula for this, just making sure that you don't pull on too tight. And then I'm just going to cut the end. And then just pull it a little bit. So now it's hidden in here. Turn around. Here we have the ends where our pattern. The other end for the sleeve. Again, we just go into the sutures and always try to go into sutures that are of the same color as the yarn that you are finishing off. So it makes it even more difficult to see the ends. I guess it will be difficult for me to use blue and go into some of the sutures here because you would see it quite clearly. I'm just going to keep doing this all the way up here. We don't really have much blue. So what I'm gonna do is that I'm going to move the color up here where I do have some blue colors, making sure that it's not too tight. Then I can go into some of the blue sutures up here like this. And do the same with the other colors. Try to find sutures that are the same color as the yarn you're trying to hide so that it blends in. Even though this isn't something that you're going to see easily because it is on the inside. I still like to have some nice finishing touches. Alright, so I'm just going to continue doing this for the rest. Finish off the yarn. going to speed that up a little bit. Alright, so now we have finished, just going to make sure there are no more ends anywhere. We can just turn this around. And now the sweater is ready to be washed. 12. S6: Washing and Drying: All right, so the first thing you wanna do when you're going to wash a wool sweater is just to have some lukewarm water and a big sink or a big bucket or something. And then you're going to add some wool soap. You want to make sure that the water is not too hot, not too cold. Just warm enough. We have special wool soap which is going to add this just like a half, half a tap or something. Mix that in. So now we have our water ready. I have my sweater right here. I'm just going to soak it in water. The reason why I like to do this is because mostly I use the Icelandic wool and it's not really recommended putting it in a washing machine because it can shrink or get even bigger. So for me, it's best to just do it by hand. I just rub in the wool soap a little bit. Doesn't need too much washing. Now I'm just going to get the water out. And now we're just going to rinse out the shop. Just going to use lukewarm water again. Just squeezing a little bit, but I'm making sure that I'm not stretching, stretching the sweater. I'm just squeezing out the water getting all the soap just squeeze all the excess water out. And I'm just going to put the sweater in a bowl or something and move to the drying area. Alright, so now we're here at the drying area. So I have put a towel and I'm going to put my sweater on top of the tower. So I just take a sweater right here. And I'm just going to lay it down here. Another good thing about the Icelandic wool is that it does stretch a bit. So if you're doing, making a sweater for your own dog, you can stretch some of the areas that are maybe a little bit tight. So you can use a measuring tape and you can measure the bust, you can measure the neck line. Basically anything that you want. If your dog has very thick legs, then you might want to stretch this out a little bit. If you want a little longer sleeves. But it's basically just laying it down like this. You can stretch a little bit the neck line, especially if you have a French bulldog or a breed that has very thick necks you might want to stretch this out a little bit while it's wet. I'm the same as here. Many there are dogs don't have to thin legs. So I might want to stretch stretch these out a little bit. Doesn't have to be too tight here on dogs. Then we'll just lay it down like this. And sometime during the drying process, you might want to turn this sweater around, move it to a dry area of the towel. And depending on the yarn that you are using the size of the sweater, thickness of the yarn and everything. It can take a couple of days drying like this, but I like it more like this. 13. Until Next Time!: I hope you guys have enjoyed making this sweater with me. I've enjoyed making this course and I can't wait to see all your sweaters. And the project for this class is very simple. Making your own dog sweater in any yarn and colors you can think of I hope you will upload your projects to this course because I would love to see what you've come up with until next time, Bye!