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

[woldy]

I like to listen to podcasts or audiobooks, but I will also knit easy things while watching TV or movies, on public transit, and once while in the audience at an academic conference. Like you, I get bored unless what I'm knitting is complicated. Mind you, I did once send us on a 2 hour detour because I was picking up stitches when I should have been navigating the car, so sometimes paying attention to one task is useful!