For my coworker Tracey who has been asking me (read: pestering me) to knit him a hat for months. He comes by my desk, “Karen Chan, when are you going to knit me a hat?”

Usually I ignore these requests. Or I suggest a barter and they back down.

In this case, I couldn’t do it. Something about his persistence endeared him to my knitting queue and he made it in. This hat suits him perfectly.