I laugh at those estimates too! I just thought I was THE SLOWEST knitter on the planet but you

I'm curious coit carpet cleaning to know how your brain functions when you are knitting.  Are you focused on your knitting coit carpet cleaning and find it easy to sit and knit and do nothing else?  Or do you stop at every thought coit carpet cleaning and act upon it?  
Last week, after finishing my first mitt, I was leafing through the book and noticed the "knitted gifts planning guide" which gives an estimate of how long a project should take.  These mitts are in the category of "4 hours or less". 
To say this was painful is an understatement.  It was torture .   The voices coit carpet cleaning in my head started.  "Oh, I need to text Shelly."  "Hmm.  Who's teaching tomorrow's yoga class?"  "What year was Beetoven born?" "Who just text me?"  "I want to look at instagram."  "How many minutes per day should I be practicing piano?" "What is the balance in my checking account?" "I should really be calling mom."  "Oh coit carpet cleaning shoot, I should have put those clothes in the dryer."  "When is Andrew's basketball game?"  "I want to check my email."  "I wonder if those boots are on sale."  "I should order those long johns for Charlie."  "Do coit carpet cleaning I have an extra yogurt in the refrigerator for Libby's smoothie?" 
OH!!!!  It went on and on.  I wanted to pick up my phone a hundred times.  I wanted to pop up and do things a hundred times.  It was exactly like when I meditate and have to constantly bring myself back.  Over and over I had to bring myself back to my needles.  Listen to the sound. Watch the pattern unfold.  
I'm coit carpet cleaning the same way - a million things can distract me. So when I sit down to knit, I pick a goal (two round, a pattern repeat, etc.) and force myself to reach that goal before going to do anything else. Once I have, I flake off and do whatever my brain was bugging me to do, then come back and set a new goal. I also find putting on a good movie helps keep the distractions to a minimum. coit carpet cleaning 9:58 AM
I'm a member of the same club, Leslie - the only way I can "power knit" is to do it in front of the tv or while listening to a podcast or two. Otherwise - our torture just as you say. The mitts are lovely - lucky friend! 10:05 AM
I usually knit in front of the tv/ipad (watching a tv show not surfing) so I'm only focused on 2 things - knitting and the show. Sometimes the show wins out and there's very little knitting, sometimes knitting wins out and I have no idea what happened in the show. I think that's why I prefer mindless knitting where I can actually do both! 10:08 AM
What a great post! I think this explains exactly why I never seem to make much progress on my knittng-- I'm always too distracted by phone, tv, etc. Perhaps this weekend I will try the same experiment! The mitts turned out lovely. 10:37 AM
It is nearly impossible for a woman to find 2+2 hours of complete dedication to a project, without life interrupting. Congrats on the 2 hour wonder! Does the second coit carpet cleaning one get easier to focus with?? Or maybe harder as more things poke at you?!?!? 1:14 PM
Because of that darn full time job, my knitting pretty much happens only in the evening, and usually in front of the TV, when every other task is done. Once I finally get some knitting coit carpet cleaning time, though, I'm loathe to interrupt it for anything, so I'm pretty single minded about it. The complication of the pattern dictates what I can watch without losing focus - there are inevitably times I need to track backward through whatever show or movie I'm watching when I realize that I have heard a word or seen a single scene in quite a while . . . 4:57 PM
Ha ha!! Yes, might take 4 hours if you have 4 hours to sit and do nothing but knit and can bear to stay there and just knit! Well done you for not being distracted by anything else. I prefer to go at my own pace with things and get them done in my timescale!! xx 5:38 PM
love it! Nope, no way can I just sit and focus on knitting - knitting is what my hands do while my monkey brain goes, in between I do little things, too. But it was awesome to read about your ability to focus for two hours and finish that second mitt! 2:59 AM
I miss you..your beautiful knits, your beautiful words, beautiful coit carpet cleaning you. I have the opposite coit carpet cleaning problem. By the time I get all that "other stuff" finished, I don't have time to knit! good for you for sticking with it and abandoning coit carpet cleaning your phone for two hours. what a lovely gift. xo 10:38 PM
I laugh at those estimates too! I just thought I was THE SLOWEST knitter on the planet but you're right. I knit a couple of rows and then admire my work and then maybe make a cup of tea, come back and knit a couple of rows and on and on. 8:43 AM
This is exactly what happens to me. I love your description of how the mind is constantly switching gears! So typical of busy moms! I am just trying to knit accessories these days. Especially hats, they seem to ke