High Marsh Road

*When I moved to Atlantic Canada a number of years ago, I fell in love with the light on the marshes. I live in New Brunswick, in a region that the Indigenous Mi'kmaq call Siknikt, the draining place. It is a landscape that blurs the line between land and water, where the famously high tides of the Bay of Fundy sweep across mudflats twice a day and dykes hold back the water from marshes and communal pastureland that sit just below sea level. On a warm fall evening, we drive out along the gravel road that cuts across the marsh, just to watch the warm sunlight cast long shadows across the grasses. When we stop the car to listen, the only sounds are birds and the rustle of the constant wind; the High Marsh Road is a magical place. As I swatched this design, my mind kept returning to those soft fall evenings in the marsh light. The mohair diffuses the light and the silk glows, creating the same soft ethereal effect as the marsh light. The placement of the increases and decreases creates a gently undulating edge that mimics the contours of the marsh landscape, while the garter columns set up a pleasing rhythm (and a brief rest for your knitterly brain). The resulting scarf is elaborate, even elegant – and also a delightfully wearable lightweight fabric that is pleasingly warm for transitional seasons.* **Finished Measurements:** Width: 11.5 inches/29 cm Length: 72 inches/183 cm **Yarn:** Gobsmacked Yarn Fuzz [64% kid mohair, 36% silk; 459 yd/420 m per 50g skein]; [MC] Fox Heart; 1 skein [CC] What Steeps in Marshes; 1 skein