Hold on to your knitting needles, because we’re about to embark on a woolly adventure like no other! That’s right, today’s curated list of free knitting patterns is all about sheep. Read on to discover knit sheep patterns for snuggly stuffed animals, cute wearable creations, and sheep-themed home decor that make a great conversation starter.

Why sheep, you might ask? Well, these fluffy creatures have been a staple in knitting patterns for ages. Maybe it’s their adorable faces, their fluffy coats, or just the sheer joy they bring. Plus, with the obvious connection to wool yarn, it’s no wonder sheep are a staple in the knitting community. After all, what’s better than creating something woolly with wool itself? 

Of course, you don’t need to have any wool yarn on hand to enjoy these knit sheep patterns. There are many different types of alternative yarn to choose from and plenty of choices when it comes to yarn weights as well. Whatever yarns you happen to have in your stash right now, there’s a good chance that you will have what you need to make most of the projects on this list.

In this wonderful woolly adventure, we’ve rounded up a flock of 25 free knit sheep patterns that are just shear genius. From cuddly sheep stuffed animals to wearables that’ll have you saying “ewe look fabulous,” and accessories that’ll make you the talk of the pasture, there’s something for every set of straight and circular needles in this barnyard bonanza. Many of these designs also include tutorial videos making them even easier to follow along.

So, grab your knitting needles and prepare for a baa-rilliant journey through the world of these free patterns. Whether you’re knitting for yourself, a friend, or just for the sheer fun of it, these patterns are sure to make you wooly happy. Scroll down and prepare to be inspired with an adorable sheep knitting pattern!

Sheep Hat

Whether you need a sheep hat for a costume or you just like to make people smile, you are sure to enjoy this lovely and textured sheep hat complete with adorable ears. The pattern is knit from the bottom up in the round using 1×1 rib stitch and seed stitch. Ears are knit separately in stockinette stitch and then sewn on. It’s available in 6 sizes.

Designer: Emimly Kintigh for Knit Picks
Yarn: Knit Picks Snuggle Puff (Aran Weight #4)
Click here for the free knitting pattern!
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Sheep Hot Water Bottle Cover

Do you like to use a hot water bottle at home? Adding a handmade cover is such a fun and easy way to customize a hot water bottle. This design features some easy sheep motif created with duplicate stitch embroidery. The pattern is knit in stockinette stitch in the round, so there are only a few purl stitches involved when you do the ribbed edging around the opening of the cover.

Designer: Fox & Pine Stitches
Yarn: Lion Brand Wool Ease Thick & Quick Solids (Super Bulky Weight #6)
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Bobble Sheep Pillow

The bobble stitch adds tons of texture to this squishy and snuggly sheep pillow. You can use this pattern to make a supersized stuffed animal or you can use it as a throw pillow on your couch for the perfect added touch of handmade charm. The face, ears, and legs of the sheep are knit in a contrasting color using stockinette stitch.

Designer: Purl Soho
Yarn: Purl Soho Good Wool and
Purl Soho Partridge (Aran Weight #4)
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Counting Sheep Coasters

Usually you count sheep to fall asleep faster at night, but these sheep friends are actually here to help you wake up in the morning. Using a cute handmade coaster for your morning cup of joe is a great way to start the day off on the right foot. This pattern uses the double knitting colorwork technique, so the opposite side of the design has the colors reversed.

Designer: Nifty Knitter Designs
Yarn: Knit Picks Stroll Fingering Solids, Heathers & Twists (Fingering Weight #1)
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Sheep Happens!

Why make just one sheep when you can have your own flock on this fun round yoke sweater design? This pattern uses stockinette stitch and stranded colorwork along with rib stitch for the edging along the hem, cuffs, and collar. What a great gift idea for the sheep lover in your life! (or a great way to treat yourself if you are the sheep obsessed one in the family) 

Designer: DROPS Design
Yarn: Garnstudio DROPS Merino Extra Fine (DK Weight #3)
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Oh My Sheep Blanket

Soft and thick super bulky weight yarn makes this sheep baby blanket project a breeze. It works up quickly and easily using stockinette stitch and stranded colorwork with larger mm needles. You’ll only be juggling two colors for the stranded colorwork (the white and the gray) and then you’ll go back in and add the black details with duplicate stitch embroidery.

Designer: Knits N Knacks
Yarn: Bernat Softee Chunky Solids (Super Bulky Weight #6)
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Doris the Sheep

Knit sheep patterns for stuffed toys are more fun for kids to play with when they come with accessories. Kiddos will delight in helping Doris the Sheep and her friends get in and out of their cold weather gear. You can customize the hats and scarves using your kid’s favorite colors. This will also help your kids tell the sheep apart if you are making one for each kid.

Designer: Charlie Darning
Yarn: Stylecraft Special Double Knit (DK Weight #3)
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Sweet Sheep Pompom Hat

You can’t go wrong with a basic beanie knit in stockinette and rib stitches. Add a fluffy pom pom on top and an adorable sheep design on the front and you’ve got yourself a recipe for success. The free knitting pattern has options for baby, toddler, child, and adult sizes. For this design, you’ll be using just knit and purl stitches along with knit 2 together decreases.

Designer: Fox & Pine Stitches
Yarn: Lion Brand Wool-Ease Chunky (Bulky Weight #5)
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Sheepie Sheep Hat

You might be able to blend into a flock of sheep with this funny sheep hat. The body of the hat uses the bubble stitch to mimic the fluffy texture of wool. A silly sheep face and legs are knit separately in stockinette stitch and then sewn on. You just can’t stop yourself from smiling when you see wacky knit sheep patterns like this one.

Designer: Little Red Window
Yarn: Lion Brand Vanna’s Choice (Aran Weight #4)
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Infinite Sheep Scarf

Now the infinity scarf gets the sheep treatment with our next free knitting pattern. The pattern calls for knit, purl, and slip stitches. It alternates sections of stranded colorwork to create the sheep with two different sections of textured stitchwork that add interest and dimension to the design, making it as fun to knit as it is to wear!

Designer: Erica Jackofsky for Knit Picks
Yarn: Knit Picks Capra DK (DK Weight #3)
Knit Picks Reverie (Worsted Weight Yarn #4)
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Fluffy Sheep Cushion

You might think that there are special stitches at play here, but the body of this sheep is made entirely out of knit stitches. Selecting a thick and fluffy yarn is the key to making it look so much like actual wool. Small stretches of knit icord are used to create the funny little legs. The face of the sheep is actually crocheted.

Designer: Luka Phornwises
Yarn: Filatura Di Crosa Fancy Line Fluffy (Super Bulky Weight #6)
Click here for the free knitting pattern!
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I’ll Pack A Cowl for Rhinebeck

One of these things is not like the other! A neat ring of sheep is interrupted by an out of place alpaca in the cute and cozy cowl design. The pattern uses stockinette and rib stitches along with stranded colorwork. There’s also a matching beanie pattern if you’re so inclined to make the whole sheepy set of handmade accessories.

Designer: Deb Jacullo
Yarn: Berroco Vintage® (Worsted Weight #4)
Click here for the free knitting pattern!
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Lamb

What a lovely little lamb stuffie! Some people think that the terms lamb and sheep are interchangeable, but lamb is actually the name for a baby sheep. This cutie definitely looks like a baby with its long gangly legs and fuzzy wool. The pattern is worked flat in pieces with stockinette stitch and some simple short rows.

Designer: Claire Garland Dot Pebbles
Yarn: Garnstudio DROPS Alpaca (Sport Weight #2)
Garnstudio DROPS Alpaca Bouclé (Aran Weight #4)
Rowan Baby Alpaca DK (DK Weight #3)
Click here for the free knitting pattern!
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Milly Tank Top

There are quite a few knit sheep patterns for baby items out there, and this sweater vest is one of the cutest. The pattern uses stockinette and rib stitches along with stranded colorwork. I love the contrast color on the ribbed edging and how it ties in nicely with the two color sheep design. Also, can I just take a moment to say that this photo is ridiculously adorable?!

Designer: MillaMia
Yarn: MillaMia Naturally Soft Merino (DK Weight #3)
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Sheepish Socks

Baa baa black sheep, have you any socks? These spectacularly sheep socks are fun to make and even more fun to wear. The neat thing about this adorable pattern is that it uses a very special yarn that creates the tiny sheep pattern for you, without the need for manual color changes. Of course, you can also make them the traditional way with stranded colorwork instead. 

Designer: Abi Grasso
Yarn: Artistic Yarns by Abi ‘Picture’ (Fingering Weight #1)
Click here for the free knitting pattern!
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Lamb Cap

This lamb cap is a bit like a ski mask with the whole face open. Part beanie and part bonnet, there’s no arguing that it’s all adorable! The pattern is knit flat with rib and stockinette stitches starting from the ribbed opening around the face and working your way back. A unique gusset construction on the back (similar to the gusset heel of some sock designs) shapes the hat to fit snugly against the back of the head.

Designer: Rae Blackledge for Willow Yarns
Yarn: Willow Yarns Daily DK Weight (DK Weight #3)
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Fuzzy Mitten Lamb

Knit sheep patterns made with fuzzy yarns are extra soft and snuggly. You can tell just by looking at them! This bipedal sheep design stands on two legs like a human. The pieces of this pattern are worked flat and then seamed. Everything is made in stockinette stitch using just knit stitches as well as basic increases and decreases.

Designer: Fuzzy Mitten
Yarn: Worsted Weight #4
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Little Lamb Sock Critter

This lovely little lamb is made to resemble stuffed animals made out of socks, like the iconic sock monkey. The smooth stockinette stitch body is covered in wool made with intricate stitch patterns, including moss stitch, for plenty of added interest. Special techniques include short rows, crossed stitches, twisted stitches, and cables.

Designer: Lion Brand Yarn
Yarn: Lion Brand Wool Ease Solids, Heathers, Twists (Aran Weight #4)
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Knit Little Lamb

If you’re looking for knit sheep patterns that are a little on the easier side, then you really can’t go wrong with this cute sheep. The simplistic body shape means less shaping for you and the pattern only uses basic stockinette and garter stitches. Everything is worked flat, so you don’t have to worry about struggling with double pointed needles.

Designer: Lion Brand Yarn
Yarn: Lion Brand Superwash Merino Cashmere (Aran Weight #4)
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Sheepster

This sheep sure knows how to accessorize! She is rocking a button up vest, a stylish multicolor tam hat, headphones, and sunglasses. There’s even a little patch on her upper arm that’s made to resemble a tattoo. The body of the lamb is a straightforward stockinette stitch construction knit in pieces in the round.

Designer: Nancy Anderson
Yarn: Stitch Nation by Debbie Stoller Full o’ Sheep (Aran Weight #4)
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Sheep in Sheep’s Clothing

These friendly sheep must be freshly shorn because they were cold enough to need some wool sweaters of their own. Their colorful sweaters are removable, which means more fun for kiddos who love to play dress up with their dolls (and the potential for multiple sweater options to choose from, if you are so inclined to make extras). The pattern is knit in stockinette stitch worked flat in back and forth rows with a cute garter stitch border. 

Designer: Frankie’s Knitted Stuff
Yarn: None specified
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Fluffy Little Sheep

This sheep pattern has a few tricks up its sleeve to make it extra fluffy. First of all, the body of the sheep is made with loop stitches which add extra dimension and texture. Second of all, the pattern calls for wool roving yarn which is barely spun at all and most closely resembles wool straight from a sheep making each loop stitch more realistic. The face and feet of the sheep are made with stockinette stitch.

Designer: Lion Brand Yarn
Yarn: Lion Brand Martha Stewart Crafts Roving Wool (Bulky Weight #5)
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Sheldon Sheep

It’s kind of creepy that these sheep don’t have faces, but I’m sure you could easily add some eyes and little smile to your own sheep creation. You’ll be knitting the face, ears, and limbs of the sheep using stockinette stitch. The body of the sheep is crocheted with alternating single and treble crochet stitches for lots of extra texture.

Designer: Amy Gunderson for Universal Yarns
Yarn: Universal Yarn Deluxe Chunky and
Universal Yarn Deluxe Bulky Superwash (Bulky Weight #5)
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Lamb Sweater

I’m kind of obsessed with how cute these sheep sweaters are. Just look at the little bandanas that the sheep are wearing! Also, can we just take a sec to appreciate that the sheep pictured on the baby cardigan are also wearing sweaters of their own. You can craft your own adorable sweater from this design using stockinette and rib stitches. 

Designer: Bergère de France
Yarn: Bergère de France Idéal (DK Weight #3)
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Cabled Sheep

Bulky weight yarn adds extra stitch definition to the cable stitches used to create the body of this sheep stuffie. The thickness of the yarn also makes the project a quick one. This is an advanced pattern with intricate stitchwork. Some parts are worked flat and some parts are worked in the round. There are written instructions as well as a chart for the cablework.

Designer: Lion Brand Yarn
Yarn: Lion Brand Martha Stewart Crafts Alpaca Blend (Bulky Weight #5)
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Final Thoughts on Knit Sheep Patterns

As we reach the end of our woolly journey, let’s take a moment to appreciate the magic of knit sheep patterns. From cuddly companions to stylish wearables and charming home decor, these patterns have truly showcased the versatility and charm of sheep in the world of knitting. What did you think of these knit sheep patterns?

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