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Garden Fences

Happy Victoria Day to all my Canadian readers.  Hope you are enjoying your day off and that the weather cooperated for your three-day long spring holiday.  Here in Minneapolis, the weather has been fickle.  Yesterday it was 78 degrees and then plummeted into the 40s overnight.  Add in a cloudy sky and stiff winds and the weather people are saying the wind chill could be in the upper 20s or lower 30 F today.  That's winter in Greater Vancouver's terms which means I pulled out the winter-wear, for at least today.

So I am sitting here at my desk, I put a desk together this weekend.  (Don't ask, it has 56 parts and I managed to put certain parts together three times.)  But as I said, I am looking around the internet for knitting stories and I found one.  (I am knitting, but it is more of the same rather repetitive stuff so I won't bore you with it.  Knitting is like that sometimes.)

This is the time of the year when some yearn to spend time planting and tending to a garden, either flower or vegetable or both.  I am a lapsed farm girl so gardening seems to get too close to work to be enjoyable.  That and the fact I have a black thumb means I am not a gardener, but I very much enjoy the work of others who are gifted at it.

A lovely English garden
Isn't this a lovely low maintenance garden--but wait, that fence--it is Shetland lace!  Anne Eunson from Hamnavoe, Burra loves to garden and knit lace.  In 2012 she put the two interests together.  Her yarn is the twine used to make fishnets and her needles are sharpened curtain rod (I can only hope they are made of aluminum and not wood.  Wood would make they rather heavy.)  And just like any lace, the beauty doesn't shine through until it is stretched.


One gets a sense of the beauty here
Here's Anne with the needles
Once again the creativity of some people just blows me away.  The fence is so lovely you have to stop here and look at other great photos of it.  

I complain about knitting with lace weight yarn.  This must weigh a ton as she works those curtain rods and the fishnet rope.  This makes getting back to my lace seem downright wimpy in comparison. There, we have had our moment of zen for today.

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