This is an original (to you) art wear knit. Every knitter’s will look a little different and is primarily knit with free range short rows and sized to fit as you work.

With free range short rows, I invite you to stop thinking linearly. Rectangles are all very good but in organic art, the unplanned edge invokes the best adventure. You cannot plan a project to the last row and stitch with this style of knitting. Here, tangents and unstructured rites of passage shape the terrain. Even if I wanted , I could never duplicate this Curving Path Tunic exactly. It refuses to be cloned. In true organic spirit, it was born in a series of tangential steps, ones that I can offer as guideposts for your own unique adventure. Expect your creation to be unique. Think of this as knitting a lava lamp of the 1970’s in its ever-changing shapes.

The tunic is created in two pieces, front and back, using the steps described here. By design, the piece is made to be loose with short row wedges forming subtle pleats along the lower edge to add a note of swirl. These short row inserts are added with small notes of intarsia to create visual interest. The front is knit in pure multi-directional short rows while the back is worked side to side. After the front and back are sewn together, the yoke is unified by knitting in the round on circular needles.