A line of i-cord separates this corner from the rest of the garden, and a cabled spine divides it into two wedges of fencing striped with garter ridges and lines of buttercups.

Sport or fingering weight
800 yards (732 meters).
Circular needle size 8 (5 mm) 40” (100 cm) or longer for sport weight.
Circular needle size 6 (4 mm) 40” (100 cm) or longer for fingering weight.

The blue sample is approximately sport weight handspun in a merino-silk blend, 176 rows of pattern with a plain stretchy bind off and a 74” (188 cm) wingspan.

The green sample is a commercial fingering weight with a 64” (163 cm) wingspan, 183 rows of pattern, and an i-cord bind off designed to mimic the look of the upper edge.

Optional cable needle
Needle for working in ends

Markers, recommended but optional
Two markers for spine.
Up to 32 markers for buttercup stripes.
Up to 74 markers for fencing stripes, which may be the same as the buttercup markers. It’s a six-stitch repeat so can be marked only every other one or every third, as desired.
Up to 32 for use once within each buttercup, for two rows.

The buttercup pattern, a Gannet Designs stitch motif by Naomi Parkhurst used with permission, features the right lifted and left lifted increases, yarn overs, and a 1/1 right cross cable.

Also uses
knit, purl, k2tog, ssk, p2tog, yo, p1 k1 in yo, 1/1 right cross cable, 2/2 right cross cable, i-cord tab and edges, and choice of plain bind off or i-cord bind off worked onto live stitches and grafted at final edge stitches.

The i-cord tab and bind off are not charted.

Large print version available. No chart needed. 22-24 point Arial. No italics, left justified, greater spacing and margins, abbreviations explained and most spelled out.

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