Lake Breeze is a rectangular scarf, made up of two lace borders worked vertically with stitches for the scarf body picked up along the edge of one border; the second border is attached to the scarf in finishing. Each end of the scarf body has a 5-stitch hem facing—so no matter how you tie, drape or wrap the scarf to wear it, all edges are presentable!

(Keep in mind that if you want to make this scarf longer, you may need more than one skein; as written, the pattern yielded roughly .5 oz/14 g of leftover yarn from the one skein.)

The inspiration for this design was the skein of Highland Handmades Sugar Maple Sock yarn in Storm Warning that I picked up at the 2012 Maine Fiber Frolic. The flashes of white and light gray that appear throughout the yarn remind me of the little whitecaps that flit across the lake when the wind kicks up. The proprietor of Highland Handmades, Heather (indie dyer and host of The Fiberista Files), is a Mainer, too, and so I like to think of this design as the meeting of two yarn-obsessed Maine minds.