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.
Lovely to see you here. Are you new to Hive?
!ENGAGE 20
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! :)
Yes I am fairly new to HIVE still finding my way around and figuring it out. If you have any advice would love to hear it! I've seen this engage token around before but I don't quite understand what it means?
you look like you are doing great already :)
engage and other tokens like beer, wine and pizza are ways you can show appreciation and reward comments and engagement. They all accumulate in your Hive-Engine wallet, which you will be able to see under your Hive wallet on peakd.com (or here). Once you have accumulated 1,001 engage tokens you can start distributing them yourself by using the command:
!ENGAGE 20
inserting however many you want to give the person (I usually do 20-30).
You can buy and sell engage and the other tokens on hive-engine.com.
They are especially useful for new and small accounts because you have little voting power and you don't want to waste it voting on comments. Your vote is so small that neither you nor the author benefit. It's best to keep votes for posts because there will usually be enough other votes to make a difference.
ENGAGEtokens.ENGAGEtokens.