12/18/13 After much questioning and rejecting of hats, ties, scarves, gloves etc. niece finally suggested I might knit golf club covers for her boyfriend. A PhD student at Northwestern University, he is working toward a degree in Chemical Engineering. I enjoy teasing him about being an “engineer” which he seems to appreciate - indeed once when we were having a meal together he asked if I was okay. Niece said he thought I did not like him because I was not insulting him. By the end of the meal I was back on my game.

I decided to replace the usual numbers on the golf club covers with the symbols for Hydrogen, Lithium & Boron, #1, 3 & 5 on the periodic table. I also worked an appropriate number of stripes into the ribbed cuffs of the covers.

I’ll see him this Saturday at SIL’s house and hope he likes the covers, which I finally finished. Now, if I can just get niece’s earwarmer finished as well … and her sister’s mittens …