Belted dilemma day

I finished the Sutra scarf! I'm so happy I could cry. By then, the lovely people at John Lewis (where I got the yarn for said scarf) had managed to remainder all the colours I was using, and it was only by a miracle that they managed to come up with one single ball of the white for me, when I realised I would run out of white. It wouldn't have been the end of the world, but it would have been a much shorter scarf. Instead, it looks like this:

I sure hope the asymmetric look is all the rage in Japan right now... The stuff I've done with the red yarn is vaguely based off a photo of a sutra that I found on the internets:

 While I was knitting the green bit at the very bottom, I also ran out of green yarn. Literally while I was tying the loops closed. I was forced to cannibalise the loose threads from the scarf itself (the ones left over when I'd  changed to a new ball of yarn) - cut them off with enough left over to fasten the thread, tie it in a knot to the "main" thread, and keep on working with that. I had to do that three times! But it worked, so yay!
Also, here is today's outfit - and I realise I've probably copied a certain famous style blogger's outfit from a while ago, but I blame my creative failure on the knitting drama of the night before.  

I couldn't decide whether I liked this outfit best with or without the belt, so I tried both. Actually wound up not wearing the belt in the end; I thought it made the whole outfit too busy. The scarf is from the same store as the pink one - Toku Home Store, I think? I had a third one, a gorgeous brown and orange one, but wound up

giving that away to a friend - and I'm not sorry, she loves it way more than I ever could.                                                                                                                 

Anyone getting tired of the fabulous view of our balcony yet? I take my photos early in the morning, since it gets dark so early here, so there really isn't anywhere else in this tower block where I can go outside and have privacy... Hm, maybe downstairs by the recycling bins? How glamorous would that be!