Acorn Stitch

Hi, I'm Mary Beth Temple. And we're going to take a look at the acorn stitch. It's called the acorn stitch. Because when you look at it in this orientation, you have your little pearl ridges there, your reverse STT stitch ridges that look like the acorn cap and then your stock inet stitches that look like the nut meat of the acorn and then your little double decrease, that looks like the very bottom, that little point of the acorn. So this is an eight row repeat.

It's really simple to do. I'm working in a worsted weight wool on size us seven needles, but it'll work in whatever yarn you want with an appropriate size needle you want to cast on an odd multiple of three. So five times three is 15, 7 times three is 21 et cetera. You do not want an even multiple of three. So an odd multiple of three plus two, you need a salvage stitch at the beginning and the end.

If you don't have a salvage stitch, you're gonna wind up with yarn overs at the end and I hate yarn overs at the end. They kind of fall off So it is an eight row repeat. Row one is knit one. This is a right side row. Pearl three two, three.

And then we're going to knit three pearl three to the last stitch and knit, the last stitch. So knit three, pearl three, et cetera, et cetera. However many repeats you have coming up on my last four stitches. We're gonna pearl 31, two, three, knit one for row two, which is a wrong side row. We're gonna begin with knit four.

So that's our salvage stitch and our first three stitch repeat. And then pearl three, knit three, all the way across. There'll be one stitch remaining and you're going to knit it. So when you're starting this stitch pattern from scratch, after your first two rows, honestly, it looks like knit three pearl three ribbing with an extra stitch on each end. So you're doing fine here we are with the last four stitches.

We're going to knit three, which is the last iteration in the asterisks, one stitch remaining and knit that one. Now we have another right side row and this is where the magic happens. We're going to knit four, one, two, three, four. Then it's yarn over sk two P yarn over. So the yarn overs are increases, the SK two P is a double decrease.

So you're going to come out with the same number of stitches you went in with. And for this pattern when you do that, sk two P. You want to slip that first stitch knit wise. So let's take a look and see what that looks like. We're gonna yarn over, bring your yarn forward and over the right hand needle sk two P slip the first stitch, knit wise, knit two together past the slipped stitch over the knit stitch.

And that's what gives us our little point, our little point of our acorn. Then we have another yarn over. We're bringing the yarn between the needles and over the right hand needle. And that second yarn over makes up for the double decrease. So we have the same number of stitches in every row.

Let's take a look at that one more time yarn over by bringing the yarn between the needles and over the right hand needle slip that stitch, knit wise knit two together, pass the slipped stitch over the knit stitch and yarn over a second time. Net three one, two, three, one more time yarn over slip, one, knit wise, knit two together. Psso pass slipped stitch over and yarn over. Now we're going to knit the last four stitches. It'll say knit three at the end of the repeat and then knit one for the last ditch for rows 45 and six, you're going to repeat, row one, row two and row one again.

So you can just follow along with the pattern. It's our knit three pearl three, keeping this pattern as established if you are working long and you kind of can't remember what row you're on if you're seeing yarn overs, you know, that you're going to knit into those at no point in this particular stitch pattern. Do we pearl into a yarn over? We're always knitting into the yarn over. So it helps, you know what row you're on, if you see that yarn over, you know, that that's going to be three knit stitches.

So then you can sort of count backwards, knit three pearl, three, knit three pearl three and my one on the end. So I know I'm starting with knit one pearl three, but this is one of those patterns. You have to really remember where you are when you put it down because it can take you a minute to figure out where you left off when you pick it back up. So I'm gonna go ahead and knit rows 45 and six. Row seven is very similar to row three in that it has those SK two PS in it, but they're staggered.

This is how come our little acorns stagger. So for so for row seven, we're going to knit one. You're an over SK two P yarn over net three one, two three, you're an over SK two P, you are over SK two P. Just remember to make that slipped stitch knit wise because my habit is always to do it pearl wise. But for this particular stitch pattern, it looks a lot neater if you do it knit wise, coming up to the end of the row, here's our SK two P yarn over and knit one and then just follow along with the pattern.

So you have two rows that have the SK two PS in them, which give us a little opening at the bottom of our acorns. And then all the rest of the rows are knit, three, pearl, three or pearl, three, knit three. And once again, if you turn it upside down, there's our little acorns, there's our little cap, there's our little nut and there's our little point. So I hope you had a wonderful time learning the acorn stitch and you use it in all of your projects. I'm Mary Beth Temple.

Thanks for joining me.