What to do with all that Keuryon?

Today is supposed to be my day off. My difficult customer needs help, and so the day off has been moved until sometime next week. It’s OK. For the most part. I’d like to get the icky stuff over with anyway. It would have been so good to spend the day at home with Peter. Knitting or spinning, fussing over what’s for dinner, cuddling up with the cat. Sigh.

Over 75% of the Peacock Tail and Leaf scarf has been knitted, despite the serious lack of attention it’s been getting this week. It shuld be an easy run to the end of the main repeats tonight.

This scarf is being made for my friend Janine. She left to visit her mother yesterday, and it may be for the last time. Hopefully not. It reminds me of those last bittersweet days spent with my mother. My parents used to take a road trip to Vancouver from Nova Scotia every now and then to visit family and old friends scattered here and there across the country. At the time, one of my brothers lived in Lethbridge, Alberta. I flew to Calgary on Dominion Day (July 1), and surprised my parents the next day. We had a wonderful time touring around that part of Alberta. Head Smashed in Buffalo Jump, Banff, and a number of other highlights. At the time there was no inkling that she would not be around that Christmas, but she did live to see and hold her first grandchild several months later. I am so grateful for that spur-of-the-moment trip, almost 15 years ago.

Well, enough with the trips down memory lane. I have a bit of a quandary in that a mitred squares blanket was promised to someone by the end of the month. Everything tried so far has been a flop. 17 different colour combos of Noro Kureyon are to be devoted to the task. After the scarf, it’s experiment time with the Kureyon. Perhaps garter stripes. Diagonal garter squares? Modified Lizard Ridge? Hmmmm...