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Wearing a coral-colored “modular” knit sweater that she made, Irene York shows some of her cactus art. Photos by Ellen Sussman

True artists have the gift of being able to make something extraordinary out of the ordinary — and knitting artist Irene York can do just that.

Using traditional knitting needles and stitches plus a variety of colorful and textured yarns, instead of casting on, increasing, decreasing, and doing knit 1, purl 1, more than knitting, sweaters, scarves, socks and mittens Irene York knits cactus.

Her colorful home in Quail Creek is filled with a variety of live cactus outside and hand-knit cactus all abloom with vibrant flowers inside.

There’s the Golden Barrel and Mexican Fencepost plus much more of nature’s desert life.

“I had a yarn store in Tahoe. My background is art and teaching and I consider knitting an art,” York said......

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