Tahki Yarns Acacia Reversible Pullover Knitting Pattern

Tahki Yarns Acacia Reversible Pullover

What is Being Made

The Acacia Reversible Pullover is a knitted sweater designed by Teresa Chorzepa. This pullover is intentionally reversible, featuring a unique construction where the garment can be worn inside-out to display the knit side on the outside with seam allowances creating decorative welts. The finished pullover is available in five sizes, with the smallest measuring 32 inches in bust circumference and the largest measuring 51½ inches.

Construction Method and Techniques

This pullover is worked using a bottom-up, seamed construction approach. The garment is knitted back and forth in separate pieces rather than in the round, with all pieces subsequently seamed together. The design features reverse stockinette stitch as the primary stitch pattern, with the purl side of the fabric intentionally displayed as the right side of the garment. This unconventional presentation is central to the reversible design concept.

The pattern includes detailed shaping instructions for both the back and front pieces. Armhole shaping is accomplished through strategic increases worked at regular intervals. Shoulder shaping involves bind-offs on alternating rows, with decreases worked to create proper shoulder seams. The neckline is shaped through a center bind-off with additional decreases on the shoulder sections.

Stitches Used

• Reverse Stockinette Stitch (rev St st): The primary stitch throughout the body of the pullover, creating the characteristic textured purl surface that serves as the right side
• Garter Stitch: Used for the initial 7 rows at the cast-on edge, providing a finished edge detail
• Make One Purl (M1P): Used for armhole increases, worked at the beginning and end of right-side rows
• Knit Two Together (K2tog) and Purl Two Together (P2tog): Decrease stitches used for shoulder shaping and neckline shaping
• Bind Off (BO): Used to finish all edges and shape shoulders

Materials

This pattern is designed to be worked with Tahki Yarns yarn and requires straight needles for the flat, back-and-forth construction method. The pattern references standard knitting abbreviations and techniques, with guidance available through online knitting glossaries for any unfamiliar techniques.

Pattern Details

The back piece begins with a cast-on of 52 to 84 stitches depending on size, followed by 7 rows of garter stitch for a finished edge. The body is then worked in reverse stockinette stitch until the piece measures approximately 13½ to 15½ inches from the cast-on edge. Removable markers are placed at each side to indicate the base of the armholes.

Armhole shaping is achieved through paired increases at the edges, with the frequency of increase rows varying by size. The front piece follows the same construction as the back until the armhole measures 6 to 7½ inches, at which point the neckline is shaped by binding off the center stitches and working decreases on each shoulder section. The pattern provides specific stitch counts for each of the five sizes throughout all shaping sequences.