I've been a bit distracted lately – you could even say scatter-brained. I've chalked it up to having a lot on my mind. But yesterday I brought "distracted" to a whole new level.

I have a pair of shoes that I keep at the office, and I normally wear my sneakers to work, and then change into my work shoes. Occasionally I forget to change shoes before I head home – nothing strange there, I'm sure lots of people do that. Yesterday I left the office, got home, took my shoes off, and went on with my evening. At bedtime, when it was time to take the dog out for a walk, I went to the door to put on my shoes, and found this:

I wonder how many people on the bus noticed. I sure didn't.

Thanks for all of the nice comments on my new scarf. To answer a question that was asked, this is my own pattern. I used the same cast-on as in the Swallowtail Shawl, which gives you 7 stitches with which to start, but in a way that blends in nicely with the finished edge. I used the Spider Stitch pattern from Barbara Walker's Treasury (the first one I think – I don't have the book here so I can't confirm that), with two knit stitches at each edge, and 4 yo increases on each right-side row (one on each side of the centre stitch and one on each edge), until I figured I wouldn't have enough yarn left to do another repeat. I was going to do a nice edging, but after trying a couple, and not liking them, I ended by doing a row of eyelets, followed by 3 knit rows, twice. I then did a stretchy bind-off.  

I may have had enough to do another repeat after all. But since I didn't have a digital scale, I couldn't weigh my remaining yarn accurately enough to know for sure.  That won't happen next time, since I now own this:

Three posts in three days. I need to get some new stuff on the needles really soon.