Sandy D'Onofrio and I have been working on some free form knitting in our spare time (she has much more of it than I do!). Her piece, pictured at left, is "Miami." The colors were so Miami-ish and she added textures, beads, pockets for seashells, etc. It's quite a magnificent wall hanging.
My piece actually has "growths" on both sides, but they aren't visable here. I ended up draping this on a curtain rod and around the radiator pipes in the classroom area. It's much better in person!
The nice thing about free form knitting is there's no pattern, no right or wrong result and no known outcome! We mostly knit in short rows, creating wedges that gave the pieces dimension. Then we added pieces as we went, just knitting them in. Sometimes I would have 6 needles in my piece at once, working in different directions. I did no sewing.
Some of the pieces were knit first, then joined as I knitted.
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