Sebastian

...because that's definitely what I needed, what with all this copious free time I have.

Although actually, I think in the long run it might work out okay. The new hobby in question is knitting, which I took up partly because I wanted something that I could do to fill little patches of time where I don't have enough brain to read, and so had been ending up playing silly games on my phone, or futzing around on the internet.

At the moment of course, it's a new shiny thing, so I am spending basically all my time on it and staying up far too late and neglecting my sleep and correspondance and exercise and so on, but that should pass once the initial flush of enthusiasm wears off. I have found that it takes exactly the right amount of brain that I can do other things in the background that I find not diverting enough to do by themselves, but tune out if I'm doing something mentally demanding (e.g. listen to French podcasts, or have music that I'm supposed to be learning playing on repeat), So ultimately I think that the combination of allowing me to multi-task on these things, and reducing the amount of time I spend on my phone it will actually leave me with more productive time in the day.

Whom else do I know who knits? Do you have ravelry accounts? Tell me about your favourite yarns and sources for patterns and techniques and discussions and articles and so on :)

Also, I need projects. Obviously there is no guarantee about when (or even if) I will get round to it (especially if you only tick the "big things" option), but would anyone like anything knitted for them?