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.

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[jenna_thorn]

Right. Himself is fond of slow moving mysteries, so we watch those, but they don't demand my full attention, nor am I likely to miss anything vital if I glance down to count or psso.

So I'm in the room and being social and interacting with the family, discussing the plot or mocking commercials, rather than physically separate in the office or mentally wholly engaged and thus emotionally distant, as I would be if reading or writing.

There aren't a lot of shows I'm actually invested in.