Monday, May 18, 2020

Beautifying a chain link fence

Years ago I found some ideas for making a chain link fence beautiful.  It was mainly photos on Pinterest.  And I was intrigued.

I looked and looked for directions and guidance on materials, etc.  Nothing.

I thought about it several times over the years. And yesterday (back on Pinterest, of course) I found some more ideas!!!

This first photo is what I was looking at originally.  But this is a much closer view and you can tell that this is not added to an ordinary chain link fence.  It was created from the chain link metal in the first place.  I have no idea what this product costs, but I am sure it's not cheap.  It's bound to be worth a lot of $$$ with all the engineering, planning, machinery to create such a thing.





Then I came across this one.  See, it's just cute little crocheted squares made to fit and then sewn on.  I have seen these in several different designs.  Like flowers or snowflakes.  Whatever you can think of, you can make it fit.







And THEN I found this!  Woo Hoo!  Take a look at this!  Cross Stitch over chainlink squares.  I love this idea.  Any needlepoint or cross stitch pattern you have can be transformed to a chain link fence. I have some thinking to do on this.  Materials, some kind of a large curved C-shaped needle, that sort of thing.  But this is do-able!!