Free Pattern Alert! Knit Princess Diana’s Iconic Black Sheep Sweater & Support Doctors Without Borders!
UPDATE – some people are having trouble accessing the pattern. It’s a link to an archived PDF, try again or you can email me and I’ll send it to you – this is the link to the PDF file: .
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LOL, you have to love Princess Diana and how clever she was with messaging … This pattern originally appeared in McCall’s magazine in 1984 and was donated to p/hop in 2011 by the designers, Joanna Osborne and Sally Muir, to raise money for Médécins Sans Frontières/Doctors without Borders (MSF).
You can help keep Diana’s life’s work alive by downloading Muir and Osborne’s iconic black sheep sweater pattern and donating to Doctors Without Borders. The pattern is free, even without a donation, but please donate if you can. Doctors Without Borders does good work around the globe.
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p.s. The New Yorker recently covered the return of the black sheep sweater, including its appearance in The Crown.
p.p.s. The actual sweater that Diana wore is up for auction in the summer of 2023 and is expected to sell for $50,000 to $80,000, as reported by The New York Post.
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I have the original of the Princess Diana pattern in a scrapbook.
I have a large collection of almost every weekly magazine pattern published in the 80s, 90s to date. Suffice to say there’s a lot of mohair & intarsia styles.
Had to smile as a pattern from the 80s was recently republished – no mention was made of its origin !
Bonjour, pouvez-vous partager le motif du mouton svp? Voici mon adresse mail martinebreulet@yahoo.fr, c’est pour faire une surprise à une amie qui est en admiration devant ce pull? D’avance merci
Martine Breulet
Martine, the sweater is available with a donation to Doctors Without Borders. I am not able to email it to you.