What do you do while you're knitting?

[jackandahat]

I've just read yet another person going "Ooo, you can't possibly knit during films with subtitles". And I keep getting people doing the internet version of looking at me funny when I talk about knitting while reading fanfic.

But... to me that's perfectly normal. Obviously there's some stuff where I have to look at my hands, anything like picking up stitches. But if it's something like plain knitting/ribbing or an easy pattern, I'm generally either watching a film (with subtitles, dodgy hearing) or reading fic/a blog. I don't have the one-track attention to only be knitting unless it's something incredibly complicated - in which case I can only do little bits or it drives me nuts.

What do you do? Do you knit in front of the TV? Do you read while you do it? Do you knit while only focusing on the knitting? I'm curious now.

Comments

[glinda]

I've never tried knitting and reading at once, I'm not sure I could manage it. I do like to be doing something else while I'm knitting (or other crafts for that matter) as I really dont like working in silence.

I prefer to knit listening to the radio/podcasts/audiobooks, but I can and do enjoy knitting while watching tv/films. I can usually only cope with films in English while knitting, but I can manage gaelic tv along with french and german language films reasonably well (cos I know a bit of the language) but other languages not so much.

[jackandahat]

I envy anyone who can speak another language well enough to watch films in it! It's always impressive.