http://www.besottied.com/wordpress emily@beSottied.com en-us http://www.besottied.com/imagefiles/rsssitepreview.jpg http://www.besottied.com/wordpress 200 156 http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=622 My inability to find exactly what I wanted, combined with my desire to make something - anything! - from Debbie Bliss Como, led to a new beSottied pattern: Nevis (modelled here by me: hello!). http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=614 Part of me was looking forward to it, and part of me was dreading it. I was still feeling very raw following Monday night and was scared I might get a bit too drunk and end up crying in a less-than-salubrious toilet cubicle. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=605 Hello, strangers. September has rolled around and I'm ready to crack on with blogging once more. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=592 I've knitted something. I'VE KNITTED SOMETHING! Ahahahaha! http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=587 Last weekend, after Neil and I got back from our adventure in Northumberland, I got cracking on my Swing Bag. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=575 To help celebrate the occasion I channeled my inner Women's Institute member and, with the help of Helen's Kitchen Aid mixer, whipped up a lemon meringue cake to take with us. It wasn't too shabby! (And don't panic, I sliced it in two and left half at home: no two people should eat that much cake in a weekend.) http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=572 How I dislike assignment season. I handed in one essay on Monday evening and my next isn't due until 13 May, so I'm planning on having myself a nice little break - perhaps even with some blogging! http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=566 I should really come up with some sort of message to put on here when I inadvertently vanish, in order to prevent loyal visitors from sending out search parties in a nationwide hunt for my dismembered remains. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=555 Anyway! Before I start ranting on about the robbing railway companies which are also having a negative impact on my financial situation, I will tell you about my thrilling week. I expect you're on the edge of your seat =) http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=546 When I woke up the next day I was greeted by more snow. More snow! It's only just melted! http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=538 The hat is finished! http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=531 I am going to see if I can knit another Grace Lace beret by this time (3 pm) tomorrow. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=523 Is it too late to get the mulled wine out?? http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=513 On the knitting front, I'm clicking along on what I hope will be my second beSottied knits pattern. All I'll say is... everyone loves fingerless mitts! http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=505 I should have run outside and rolled around naked in the snow for an authentic Nordic experience. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=503 Download my first beSottied knits pattern, for zero pence! http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=489 ...and prepare to do some celebratory dancing! I've actually finished something! http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=478 After spending considerable hours asking myself if I was really happy with my k1, p1 ribbing (I wasn't), I frogged the hat, tossed my DPNs to one side and got cracking with the co-ordinating scarf. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=459 Once more, I'm ashamed at my lack of updates. Thanks to those of you who sent emails and texts demanding that I get my act together. I'm back, and I promise you photographs, and knitting, and my trademark rambling on, brackets and hyphens. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=456 2 hours, 34 minutes and 6 seconds. It was boiling, it was busy and it was brilliant. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=450 Finally! It's almost here! It's Great North Run Eve! I've barely slept this past week but have had quite a jolly time eating lots and lots of CARBS!! http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=441 Why?? Perhaps one breast is heavier than the other? Who knows? http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=432 I've decided that, this year, I will have myself a nice hat and scarf combo in a carefully researched, lusted after yarn. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=419 Most shockingly of all, there has even been knitting. This is one of my own patterns, which I'm working on at the moment with a half-baked hope of setting it loose on Ravelry at some point in the future. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=413 He did seem very keen on his medals. 'Hah.' I thought. 'No punk-ass bit of metal is going to motivate me. I care not for medals!' http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=389 He'd have been laughing on the other site of his face, Mr Clever Kite Man, if he'd had to take me home to my mother, my body over his shoulder and my head in a rucksack! http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=374 It wasn't all about relaxing and getting fat: I'm sat here typing with very tired legs, as we made the most of our couple of days away and did a fair bit of scooching up and down hillsides, too. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=365 We went to Durham, walked a lot, climbed to the top of the Cathedral tower, then ate a giant piece of chocolate cake that probably contained more calories than we'd burned off. But it was BRILLIANT cake. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=361 There are some absolutely stunning places all over the country: a lot of them are more or less on my doorstep. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=358 Muriel will be three years old on Tuesday (weep!) and will be going for her first MOT test on Monday morning. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=343 I'd just whizzed down a pretty steep hill when I heard a car roaring along behind me. It didn't sound as though it was making any attempt at slowing down, so to be safe (remember my accident-proneness) I scooched over on to the muddy verge and rattled along in some old tractor trails until the car passed. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=337 No, no, I'm not dead! I?ve just been away from the land o' the blog for a few days. I've been chock-full of good intentions, though, and have been taking photos all week with half-baked plans to write a post languishing at the back of my mind. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=331 When I was heading off to Uni on Friday I thought that my piece of cream woven stitch probably wouldn't do too well out of a rickety journey on a grubby train. And so, in a flash on inspiration, I thought of trying something with the two balls of Louisa Harding Flotsam I got in the Secret Santa swap at the Knit Happens Christmas party. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=326 I love the stitch I'm using. It's called woven stitch, and it's really simple. To knit the woven stitch, you need an even number of stitches... http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=324 Aaaaaaaaargh! Why can't I run anymore? Why?! Calm, calm. Regroup. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=316 As 23-year-old girls up and down the country are out doing drugs and sleeping with inappropriate men, I'm sat in my bedroom, happily filling a milk bottle with old buttons. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=310 Sunglasses!! I had to wear SUNGLASSES on Friday! And yesterday! Isn't it amazing how much difference just a little bit of sunshine makes to your mood? http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=301 I've just been clearing out some old messages from my Facebook inbox, and have been reading most of them as I go. Quite a lot of the messages in there are just little short notes between me and Laura, about stupid things: http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=291 I'm normally steaming away with my knitting before the train's left the platform, but yesterday it took me an age to even cast on. kept dropping stitches and splitting my yarn and yuck yuck yuck, I couldn't get into it. Once I got going, I even managed to mess up a simple k2p2 rib. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=289 If you're quite new to beSottied, or just haven't had a look around before, you may want to look at these pages: http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=281 I'm really not having a good week, am I?! I think I'll go somewhere and sit down before I hurt myself =P http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=262 I love that every crisis, no matter how dire, can be massively improved with a nice cup of tea, and solved completely with the application of a nice cup of tea and a biscuit. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=254 I think my cast-on diet is having a negative effect on me. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=251 See, fear of Helen-and-Mike-related reprisals may mean I don't have the chance to bring you photographs and needlessly long blog entries, but at least I can share some lovely links! http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=247 Still, I'm determined that 2009 (The Year of Adventure!) is the year I'll finally get a pattern out there. Even if it's ugly, full of mistakes, and no-one decides to knit it =) http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=243 Admit it to yourself. You know someone you'd like to slap. It's most likely someone you work with. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=235 I don't suppose a knitting needle to the left ventricle will really help me with my training plan. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=230 All this talk of holidays left, right, and centre! I'm feeling the urge to go and buy my standard SPF 50 (lead-based paint) and jet off somewhere. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=225 I got an email this morning telling me that I've been 'awarded' (hah) a place in the Bupa Great North Run 2009. Horrors. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=217 Luckily, I always keep a shower squeegee in my front door pocket (don't ask)... http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=208 By the time I got to the shop I thought I was going to have to strip off all of my clothes lie down, prone, on the pavement, and call Lassie to go get help. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=194 I've spent most of the week moving around the office in a crablike fashion - this seems to be rapidly becoming my default gait - because of all the activities I've been getting up to. And no, it's been nothing rude. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=191 Just a short post this morning. I ended it with Arron last night. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=182 There was a running commentary running throughout the tour, which we tuned in to with headphones. We had wild japes cunningly changing the language on each other's headphones. Edinburgh: now in Spanish! http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=174 I come to you doing a very merry jig, for I finally submitted the last of my horror essays today. That means my evenings are - for the next few weeks at least - my own once more. I'm not entirely sure how well I'll have done on the essay front, but I've definitely learned a few things: http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=159 I did go horse riding last night for the first time in weeks and weeks, which is probably why I'm currently walking around like a crab, scuttling up the stairs and edging through doorways =) http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=156 As well as some thrilling Christmas escapades with Laura (we found a fairground! In Newcastle! In December!) I've spent some time in London, at home and in Newcastle with Arron, and some considerably less exciting time with my essays for uni... http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=152 Button mushroom looks aside, it's been a nice Christmas. My diet has consisted of tea, chocolate, stuffing and alcohol, and I think my blood may have turned to gravy. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=139 Unfortuantely, all of this Christmassy togetherness is taking a serious toll on my secret knitting time. I almost stabbed myself in the heart with a circular needle on Wednesday evening, when Mutti positively burst in on me as I was sat on the sofa, clacking away on her scarf. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=130 I got back home late on Sunday evening but have spent most of my free time since then with Mutti's Sofascarf in one hand, a vodka in the other, and a cable needle clamped between my teeth. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=128 I'm running away to London for the weekend, visiting Arron. I'll be back on Sunday evening, hopefully with a fair selection of photos for your perusal =D http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=121 As promised in my last post, I've cobbled together this little selection of links to make up for my lack of knitting updates. http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=106 I hate that alarm clock with a passion. Once it starts beeping, it's nigh-on impossible to switch off, especially in my groggy, just-woken up state (I totally misjudge where doors are and walk in to walls. I think there may be something seriously wrong with me). http://besottied.com/wordpress/?p=84 I called in sick to work and set up camp on the sofa for the day, switching between uni textbooks and thrillingly bad daytime TV. I cuddled up with my blanket, but my stomach still growled on. To the left is one of my soon-to-be famous (I’m sure) "artist's impressions" =)