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Hmm I never thought to try loom knitting a sweater for my dog. Do you follow a pattern or just wing it?

I hand knit one sweater (that ended up felting weird and lots of holes when someone else washed it) and used a Knook (cross between knitting and crochet. You use a crochet hook with a hole in the other end that a string goes through to hold the extra stitches) for 1 1/2 sweaters (I liked the way this one fit but is 6-7 years old so am in the middle of making another but it got put down for a few months while I explored weaving)

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/diamonds-for-dogs

This is the sweater pattern I’m using. Originally I used a variegated pink but this time I’m using a purple- white variegated rather than switching colours all the time. The knook makes it easier for me to pick up stitches to connect all the squares rather than knitting needles

It's nice to find yarn lovers on here! I just got back into knitting as I'm horseless at school right now. I've made dog sweaters before, but I think my next project will be a short-sleeved human sweater.

I'm glad to hear Fish is pain free, but I'm so sorry for your loss. I'm glad you have hobbies and doggie cuddles to fill up your time - losing a friend is so hard!

Cool! Very neat! Is it hard to do?

Awesome! Thank you for sharing @Peninsula and thank you @HTRanch for telling me that. :D

YouTube and google are the best. I thought myself how to knit and crochet by googling what different abbreviations meant. I will still look up different stitches too just to do a refresher.

It’s also awesome because you can find the tutorials that best suit however you learn from video, written word or pictures