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

[lindorie]

When I got my Kindle for Christmas, it was THE MOST AMAZING THING EVER -- finally, I could read books AND knit at the same time without fussing with page turning or keeping the book open! I'm the girl who knits her socks while reading for class, just reading period.

I knit in front of the tv, the computer screen, whatever. Subtitles, no subtitles, it doesn't matter.

As for knitting while focusing only on the knitting... I can only do that in small amounts, otherwise I screw up and it irritates me to the point where I want to chuck it at the wall. ADHD and lace knitting do not mix, I don't think.