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

[gwaihiril]

If it's something simple, yes. Actually, if it's something simple, I'll usually only knit it in front of a tv/computer or while talking to someone, because otherwise I get bored with plain stockinette/garter/ribbing. I can't watch/read while doing complicated knitting, though, because I have to look at what I'm doing.

[jackandahat]

"because otherwise I get bored with plain stockinette/garter/ribbing."

Very much this - I would never get through knitting socks or plain hats if I didn't have something else to do during it.