Oak Harbor Pullover - Sweater Knitting Pattern for Women in Tahki Yarns Coronado by Tahki Yarns

Oak Harbor Pullover – Sweater Knitting Pattern for Women by Mary Beth Kelso in Tahki Yarns Coronado

The Oak Harbor Pullover is a beautifully crafted women's pullover sweater knitting pattern designed by Mary Beth Kelso and published by Tahki Yarns. This intermediate-level pattern produces a polished, feminine sweater with a refined cable-and-texture body, making it an ideal project for knitters who are comfortable with reading charts and working multiple stitch patterns simultaneously. The design is available as a downloadable PDF and is worked in the brand's own Tahki Yarns Coronado, a luxurious DK-weight yarn blend.

What Is Being Made

The finished garment is a seamed pullover sweater worked flat in separate pieces and joined. It features a garter stitch hem border, an intricate cable and textured body pattern worked from charts, and a neat neckband. The sweater is designed with a relaxed but structured silhouette, offering generous ease across a range of women's sizes.

Sizes and Finished Measurements

• Sizes: Small, Medium, Large, XL, 2XL
• Bust: 41 (45, 49½, 53½, 57½) inches / 104 (114.5, 125.5, 136, 146) cm
• Length: 22½ (23, 23½, 24, 24½) inches / 57 (58.5, 59.5, 61, 62) cm

Techniques Used

The Oak Harbor Pullover is constructed using a bottom-up, worked-flat, seamed method. Each piece — back, front, and sleeves — is knitted separately from the cast-on edge upward and then seamed together at the end. This traditional construction approach gives the finished sweater excellent structure and drape, and makes it easy to try on pieces for fit as you go.

• Bottom-up construction: Work begins at the lower hem of each piece and progresses upward toward the shoulders and neckline.
• Worked flat: All pieces are knitted back and forth in rows, rather than in the round, using circular needles as straight needles for comfort with larger stitch counts.
• Seamed finishing: The completed pieces are joined using seaming techniques, giving the garment a neat, structured finish typical of classic knitwear.
• Cables: Cable motifs are incorporated into the body chart, adding dimensional texture and visual interest to the fabric. Cables involve crossing groups of stitches over one another to create twisted rope-like or braided effects.
• Chart reading: The body pattern is worked from a printed chart, requiring the knitter to follow both RS (right side) and WS (wrong side) rows with attention to stitch placement.
• Wet blocking: The pattern specifically instructs knitters to wet block their gauge swatch and finished pieces, as the stitch patterns fully open up only after blocking. This is an important finishing step for this design.
• Needle size changes: Needle sizes are changed throughout the knitting to accommodate the differing gauge requirements of the various stitch patterns used in the body.

Stitches Used

The Oak Harbor Pullover incorporates a combination of classic and textural knitting stitches that work together to create its distinctive look:

• Garter stitch: Used for the lower hem border, worked over 16 rows to create a flat, reversible edge that lies neatly without curling.
• Cable stitches: Featured prominently in the body chart, creating the signature rope or braid textures associated with cable knitting.
• Combined body chart patterns: A blend of knit and purl stitches arranged according to the Body Chart, producing the textured fabric of the main body sections.
• M1L (Make 1 Left): An increase stitch used to add stitches by lifting the strand between needles and working it through the back loop to avoid a hole.
• K2tog (Knit 2 Together): A right-leaning decrease worked through the front loops of two stitches simultaneously.
• P3tog (Purl 3 Together): A double decrease