Freedom Friday

On Friday (aka tomorrow, but let's just say Friday because it doesn't sound as imminent as "tomorrow" or "32 hours from now"), I give an oral defense of my thesis.  I can't believe it's almost over!  Am I nervous?  Very.  In fact, I am so nervous I can hardly knit as I should be spending every waking second that I am not eating or arranging referees for my medical school applications studying for this defense.  Hardly...But it's guilt laden I tell you!  GUILT LADEN!  I also can't show you what I am knitting because I am currently working on Sue's Secret (Belated Birthday) Socks and she has no idea what they look like.  She's even been over for a blind fitting, which was hilarious (Costin thought we were crazy).  The only things she knows about the socks are:

1. I am using Lorna's Laces.  This is new for me because I am a KPPPM whore.  Though I am finding Lorna's Laces quite enjoyable.
2. The socks will be long.  They will have calf increases and elastic to hold them up at the top.
3. The colours are WILD.

Speaking of Sue, last weekend I attempted to fix her favourite sweater which she has worn through at the elbow.

                        

I have no idea how to darn anything, but I thought I could figure it out.  The only problem is that I have a vision.  I want there to be a cute red heart over the area that needs repairs.  Here's my first attempt.

                              

The heart didn't turn out quite how I imagined (maybe it needs to be bigger?  maybe it needs to look more like a heart?), so I will have to come up with a different way of doing it.  Any suggestions??

Also, I want to knit/crochet myself a beanie toque for my trip to Greece.  I figure that my hair will become a tangled, sweaty mess under my bike helmet and a cute little lacy toque seems like the quick fix I need.  Does anyone know of any good patterns?

Comments

[Choochie]

I know it's not a beanie per say,
but what about the bathing cap from Knitty.com?
It would be soooo cute!

oh, i love the red heart on the sweater. it looks great and covers the hole!

[Mandy]

More knitty ideas:

The Lacecap
http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEsummer03/PATTlacecap.html

Shedir
http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall04/knittyF04surp.pdf

The hat that goes with the Zigzag sweater
http://knitty.com/ISSUEfall04/PATTzigzag.html

[Olivia]

Allie- good luck tomorrow. I'm sending encouraging thoughts your way! Miss you!

[Jessica]

Bad friend that I am, I don't know the exact time you are defending... so you might be done already! Or you might doing it RIGHT NOW! Either way, within a few hours it will all be over! The Pain! The Suffering! The Agony! All over. Now the vacation can start :)

[gray la gran]

here's an idea for the heart --- you could just mend that area however works out best, and then knit a separate heart to use as a patch! there's a very nice heart pattern in nicky epstein's 'knitted embellishments' book.