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

[indywind]

I knit with TV or movie, as long as it's not too complicated--entertainment rather than Art; including ones with subtitles. I knit while reading stuff on computer, which is pretty convenient except the interruptions to advance the page. If I could grow another couple hands I would knit while reading a paper book. I knit where I'm obliged to pay attention to someone else talking and not interrupt or fidget, as in a lecture class. I knit while being read to; that's most pleasant. I knit while engaging in idle chat, but not engrossing conversation; while riding on the bus or walking between errands, but only rarely with my complete undivided attention -- then usually if I'm fascinated with the pattern and/or eager to finish a (small) item or section.