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

[meretia]

I can't knit while I'm reading, because I keep needing that hand to scroll down or turn the page and it disrupts my groove. Other than that, though, I really can't watch TV or movies without knitting in my hands anymore because it feels like such a waste of time. I get bored very quickly just sitting and staring at a screen without doing anything else.

[onthehill]

THIS! I actually took up knitting because I felt like watching TV was such a horrible waste of time. I feel so much better now because I'm actually making something while being entertained. \o/