How long do you knit in a sitting?

[Viridian]

This is something I'm curious about. I knit every day, thereabouts, but never for more than thirty minutes at a time. Sometimes, if I'm motivated, I'll knit for an hour. Maybe this is why it takes me so long to finish a project.

So how long do you knit in a sitting?

PS - I tried to make this a poll, but it failed me. Oh well.

[SandraS]

I work full time, so my knitting is done at night in front of TV, after supper, dishes, the dog, etc. About 2 hrs usually. If I'm sitting, I'm knitting. I get a lot of knitting done on Saturday and Sunday, between errands and chores. Our children are grown and gone, hubby is playing golf, so I knit!

[Plantgoddess+]

I knit whenever I am sitting down. This winter because we had sooo much snow I got a lot of knitting time. I knit in the morning with my coffee while I read news on the internet. I knit in the evening while watching tv. I knit during the day whenever I sit down to take a break. If things are slow I can turn out a pair of socks in less than a week.

[gargoyle08]

I get interrupted (or distracted!) alot at homes, so it goes from just a few minutes to up to an hour usually. Today however, I get to go to my knitting group so I will enjoy a good 2 hours of knitting.

I personally take forever to knit, I think it is partially because I am a little slow, and I get distracted easily - I knit while watching TV or my husband just wants to talk and show me stuff all the time.

[auburnchick]

I can usually knit for about two hours at a time...sometimes three if there's a lot of good TV shows on at night. I typically knit from 7-10pm.

I will also knit before soccer games, so that's about an hour to an hour and half. I knit during half-time, but that's only 15 minutes.

[bethany]

as loooooong as I can! I try not to even sit and knit if I can't dedicate at least a half an hour to it. That's when I really start feeling the groove. If I get interrupted before that, I get grumpy!

[Plantgoddess+]

I think you'll find that some of us older knitters have more time than the younger with children to raise. I know that even 2 years ago knitting was an occasional thing for me, I'm loving having hours of uninterrupted time to knit and get all my work done.

[Sunshine's Mom]

I don't like to get started unless I can really devote anywhere from 1/2 hour to multiple hours. But, usually, I get home from work, work-out, make dinner, DH and I take the dog for a walk, then knit and watch TV from about 7-9:30/10:00PM. Then on the weekends I knit in the mornings until we start the chores (so that's about 4 hours - I'm an early riser). Then once the chores are done (or at least I'm only on laundry detail), I watch baseball and knit. Unless it's nice out, then I'm outside reading.

Knitting curtails quite a bit in the summer for me, but since I'm really into socks now, that's something I can do in the evenings and the yarn is of a consistency that doesn't make me too hot to knit.

All told I probably knit about 30 hours a week. Yeah me!

[McKnitty]

Never enough! I wish I had more time, but I just have to grab the opportunity when it arises. I think the longest time I've ever knit at one sitting was 3 hours, and that was too long for me because my hands and wrists got very sore. Now I take more breaks and stretch my hands, wrists, arms and shoulders. I would say an average for me is around one hour.

[ARiley]

It depends -- a couple hours in the evening while watching TV, half an hour or twenty minutes during lunch hour. If it's nice out on the weekend (not a common happening in Chicago lately) I like to bring the knitting out to the patio with me for the afternoon.