I found this pattern for a knitted Dachshund puppy dog toy while searching among several other small knitted toys free patterns online. When I saw it was by Amanda Berry, I knew it would be my choice.
This breed is particularly popular with animal lovers. My son has an adorable tan coloured one.
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Knitted Sausage Dog Free Pattern Download
I found this design on one of my favourite knitting websites. Just click the image above or HERE and you’ll be taken to it. The instructions are there to be downloaded at no cost.
Pattern Details
When you use this dachshund pattern, the finished toy will be around 11cm in length and 7.5cm tall, so not a big toy at all. This makes it suitable for little children’s hands. As it’s a small toy, you will find it is made up quickly, easily done in a weekend or a few evenings during the week maybe. I like projects that are done quickly, as you see the result sooner.
I like the fact that for this sausage dog knitting pattern, you will knit 5 different pieces flat with straight needles – no circular knitting skills required. The pieces are for the head, the body, the ears, the legs and the tail.
What type of Yarn is needed?
The yarn that is used to make this toy is from the 100 per cent cotton DK Paintbox range. I have found this yarn to be lovely and soft, and easy to knit with too. The price is quite affordable as well and they have a huge variety of shades from which to choose.
The yarn colours used are pure black and soft fudge shades. If you fancy creating one with different colours that would work too as these so-called “sausage dogs” are easily recognisable no matter what colour they are. You could use this strategy as a way to use up leftover stash yarn.
What Needles?
You will need 2.5mm (US 1.5) straight single-point knitting needles.
Any Extra Equipment needed?
To complete the project you will need to have a large-eyed tapestry-type needle to sew up the pieces.
You will also need some polyfil toy filling with which to stuff the toy.
If you make the collar for the toy then you will need a plastic snap to join the ends together – or else you could just sew the collar ends together once it is around the neck of the toy dog.
A pair of 6mm bead eyes is suggested for the face, but I prefer to embroider them on for safety reasons.
Watch the video below, to find out one way to add eyes to your knitting toys
What Stitches Skills are used to make this dog toy?
The knitting skills you’ll need to have are the following –
- how to cast stitches on and off
- how to do the knit and purl stitches
- how to decrease by knitting two stitches together
- how to increase using the technique of knitting into the front and back of a stitch
- how to do the ssk method of decreasing
To refresh your memory or find out how to do these stitch techniques, visit my Learn to Knit section. Scroll through the posts to find the one you need – I have covered all these techniques there.
