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

[kareila]

My favorite time to knit is while watching sports, because of all the dead space in between exciting things happening on the TV. Yes.

I think I could also knit while watching a film with subtitles, but not while reading - unless I could scroll down or page turn with my feet or something.

[jackandahat]

Ha! That's a good one - I've heard of people knitting at games, but I guess the same applies watching it on TV. What's your sport?

[kareila]

I have two: I was raised on SEC college football, and I became a Red Sox fan when I lived in Massachusetts. That covers all but two months of the year, so I'm good. :)

[jenna_thorn]

Oh a thousand times yes. And not just tv sports. My son plays baseball, so I'm at every game, plus practices, plus the batting cage.

I'm an incredibly slow knitter, but even I can get a pair of socks and a hat or something done each season. and I normally cast on something fairly uncomplicated in late August for football season, because there's a high probablity of it beign flung into the air at a particularly exciting play.