Crafting from Work
- At October 25, 2007
- By Carey
- In crochet, WIP
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I know I am not the only one to carry a small travel project wherever I go. But sometimes it can feel like it when you are the only one crocheting or knitting in public. Most of the time you get a lot of stares and people asking you “how do you do that?” But that is to be expected. I know this so I do not take out my project unless I am prepared for this.
But crafting during my lunch break is another matter. I always worry about showing people at work that there are things that I would rather be doing than working. Lucky me, my supervisor does not seem to mind if I work on my crafts during my lunch break. In fact she often ask about what I am working on. I still do not feel comfortable whipping my projects out in the break room, but a quiet lunch by myself in a small conference room with a crochet project is just what I need some days.
Anyone else crafting during their lunch breaks?
blu
I knit on my lunch breaks. A co-worker has remarked that she was surprised that I wasn’t embarassed. I didn’t think I should be! Apparently, I do many embarassing things in public. Like photograph, read, knit. I should be ashamed!!:)
I adore my co-workers, and they put up with me, but they just don’t get it.
Meredithh
If I stay at work (instead of going home) on my lunch break I def. take a crochet project. The people at my work are just amazed by the projects I’ve been working on for Christmas. It does get old though, when, for the 5th time that week the same person asks “Still working on those gifts huh?” Yeah. I’m still working on the gifts. Got a lot to do. And after Christmas? I’ll probably still be crocheting. Because that’s what I like to do.
ArtMind
Once I needed to have a ceramic project finished where I needed tons of little clay balls to put on a baboeschka.
I took my clay to work too because I just needed all the spare time I had – they looked a bit strange but it definitely was a good way to show there’s life outside work too!
If you want to see the baboeschka, it’s part of a larger work, but it’s in the picture:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6864648
(the feeling is ‘patience’…)
Carey
Thanks for the responses guys. I am glad to here I am not the only one crafting at work. Maybe I will get the nerve up to knit in the break room soon.
ArtMind- I have no idea how you worked on clay at your lunch break. And it turned out so well too! It does remind me of when I was in freshmen year of art school and took one of my 3d design projects back to my dorm room. I spent hours carving plaster in my bathroom. My roommate did not understand at all…
Cammy
I love working on my knitting and crocheting at work! Tho it is kinda weird having people come up to me asking me questions. =]
Oh a totally off note, I’m in love with the blue yarn in the picture. (I hope you don’t mind me asking this…)What color and company is it from? =] I love your work!
clairol
Haha, I laughed when I read this post as my workmates think I am mad for embroidering on my lunchbreak. They are becoming more tolerant tho, I must say. Sometimes, as ArtMind says, you just need every single spare second you can grab. Up to Christmas, I’ve been crafting every second at lunchtime, breaks, before work – I’ve even been tempted to take my sewing to meetings!
Mandy Bee
I used to crochet during my lunch breaks, but the stupid jokes started getting on my nerves enough for me to stop. People just can’t seem to wrap their head around the fact that some young people actually crochet/knit.
A friend in the office likes to crochet and one day while working on her project, another coworker said, “Hey, now you can knit yourself a TV!” Since that comment, I’ve stopped crocheting at work because I don’t think I could listen to another comment like that without hitting someone.