Anneke Visser

@annekevisser · 24 Oct 2023

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Knitting while watching TV

Recently, I received a compliment from my hubby. He loved that I could knit and watch TV at the same time. For the sake of fairness, I have to say that's not difficult if you're knitting straight forward. It's a different story when you're working on patterns, that you regularly use a different stitch, but it's not difficult to do it in a straightforward way. You just have to make sure that what you're knitting is the right length, that you don't knit endlessly and then find out that, in my case, the back of the sweater I'm knitting is getting too long. With a bit of bad luck, that will be a lot of takeaway and I don't want that. You should also make sure you don't drop any stitches and that there is still enough wool you are knitting with, and if you have any experience, you can just watch under TV or while talking to someone. If you follow a pattern, it will be a bit trickier and I won't watch TV either and I'll stop knitting when there's a visit, otherwise I'll just keep going.
My grandma always did that, too. When you went to visit her, she was often knitting and kept on knitting, she rarely stopped, just to give you a cup of coffee or tea with a cookie, but then she happily went on and told her what she wanted to say at that moment. Even when she went to visit, she brought her knitwear and then sat and knitted while talking to the others. For example, she has knitted a lot of socks, slippers, sweaters, cuddles and cushions. I can evoke that image again in no time, and I'll see her sitting in her talking chair, knitting a sock and talking while she's talking. I hope she still does that in heaven, because knitting was her passion and her life.
Personally, I also think that has something. It gives a cozy, cozy feeling when someone is knitting while talking. So I don't think it's rude when someone is knitting or crocheting or embroidering while talking. The person annoys me, though, when they visit you or you're visiting someone yourself and is just using their smartphone. If I visit someone and notice that they are busy with their smartphone and are not paying attention to me, I will leave and say that I will come back another time or I will stop going there if that happens more often, because then that person clearly has no interest in you. When someone visits and is systematically using their smartphone, I say something about it in a nice way and I won't meet up with them anymore either. It's different with crafts, isn't it. When someone is working while talking, he or she usually pays attention to the person they are talking to and often listens better than when someone is busy with their smartphone, they look at a screen and pay no attention to the other person, while the person who is doing crafts pays attention to the other person and occasionally looks at work with an oblique eye and stops handwork when he or she notices that the handiwork requires attention. The person he or she is talking to is then more important than the manual work he or she is currently doing.

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