A close-fitting cowl with a little lace so your skin can still breathe. May be worked in doubled heavy lace weight, DK, or sport weight. The use of a smaller than usual needle creates a cushy, insulating fabric that tends to hold its shape better.

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.

We mark our territory with walls and fences, declaring some plants desirable and disdaining others as weeds. Nature has her own ideas about what belongs where, and when it can, the wild comes creeping up to our fences and infiltrates our tamed gardens. Sometimes her gifts are shy and delicate; sometimes, like buttercups, they can be bold and br...