I've been knitting for years and years now, the motion of the needles and wrapping of the yarn has become second nature. It's pure muscle memory and so is very easy for me to multi task. I've actually found it improves my concentration. Who else on here finds themselves falling asleep at meetings and conferences? A good technique some people use is doodling or something that allows them to keep busy. That is exactly how I use knitting.
My fingers know exactly what to do so I don't have to think about the movements or even look at what I am doing. The movement of my hands keeps me awake and helps me concentrate more on discussions and debates. Luckily I have a very understanding work team but I can understand how non knitters might find this very confusing. I spent most of my lectures at university sat knitting, I found I was one of the few students who actually stayed awake through the whole thing and even asked questions. This was probably why the lecturers let me knit. Does anyone else use crafts in meetings to actually keep them focused?
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Yes! Until I have something for my hands to hold, I can't focus on anything else. I cannot teach without a pencil or pen in my hand. I cannot watch a movie or ride in a car without a book or knitting in my hands. When I am in a meeting where I cannot knit, I have a hard time thinking about anything unless I have a notepad (taking notes or making lists--or sometimes writing a paragraph about how boring and useless the meeting is.)
😁 We were at the same meeting!
I really need to try this! Might be a good exercise to have the whole team do actually and help identify what is wrong with meetings to improve them....I imagine there might be a lot of swearing in the paragraphs though :D
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BEER.Oh yes this is totally me! I can knit without looking most of the time and it helps me focus on meetings and the like, too. The only time this tripped me up was when I was knitting a scarf for a present to look like the flag of Norway for a friend. I had to keep track of rows and switch out colors to do it, but I'd keep going too long and realize ...d'oh! ...and have to frog back to where I should have switched. 😂
I feel you!!! I tried to crochet a lace shawl during meetings and I involuntary invented a new lace pattern (read: I messed up the repeat completely)🤣
We're just inventing new patterns! That we can probably never repeat again! One of a kind! 😁
Haha that's what I say to my friends when I teach them to knit and they make mistakes. I show them how to fix them, then we move on to patterns and the best way I can explain it is "all those mistakes you used to make, well now we are going to make them deliberately and it'll make a pattern" :)
You have to learn the rules to know how best to break them! ;)
We're just inventing new patterns! That we can probably never repeat again! One of a kind! 😁
Oh that is always so annoying, I spent the whole of last Saturday making my new halter top and then realised I'd gone wrong. A whole day of knitting down the drain. So disheartening.
Oh noooooooooooo, my heart cries for you! It is definitely disheartening when that happens.
Hello @knit-stich-witch, yes I do the very same thing! I found it really helped my concentration in lectures (I was usually knitting socks). The other problem I had was that other student were not engaging and participating in the discussions, they were always waiting for me to say something. I found that knitting helped me keep my mouth firmly shut.
I did start taking knitting to a set of meetings that I knew were going to be boring and fruitless. Whenever the meeting went off at a tangent I would hold up my knitting to show how much I had done. I still managed to complete a cardigan including sewing it up! (Needless to say, the meeting never accomplished its aim).
I mainly knitted socks in lectures too! They are so good with how small and portable they are. I honestly wonder sometimes if any big meetings are anything but boring and fruitless, I love how you use your knitting to measure how pointless it has been though. :)
I couldn't let my life slip away with nothing achieved for that time!
Socks are fabulous, with a small set of circular needles they can even fit in a pocket. I must admit I only do stocking stitch and I do the heel shaping at home.
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That's exactly how I feel, we waste so much time but knitting makes us be productive. I used to knit on my bus to work each morning before I started working from home. I used to be able to make a pair of socks each month just from my commute alone! :)
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ENGAGEtokens.ENGAGEtokens.YEEEEES! And it is even easier for me to do it while doing video conferences (I am not good in looking away from the knitting or crochet). I often find it helps me to refrain from intervening too much and to stay cooler and let others fight :-DDD Shame on me, I sometimes even paint while being on a board meeting (video meeting): the meetings are often long and fruitless and as it is charity work I do not feel too bad if I can accomplish (sketching/Knitting/crochet) something else during these long meetings.
I am very strict about this - 90 minutes only and business has to be done in that time. Going digital really helped, I could claim "health and safety" and "good practice".
Wow you sound like my friend at work he paints warhammer during meetings, he even turns the webcam down so we can all watch, it is really therapeutic. Not sure the higher ups would be impressed to know though :D
Narrr let them fight it kinda provides entertainment anyway. I once watched two grown men screaming at one another going red in the face arguing their point, trouble was neither was listening to the other and they were actually agreeing with one another. Personally I think if we'd all been sat knitting there wouldn't have been any fighting, well except screaming at our needles when we go wrong. :D
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