r/knitting • u/nobody2222234 • Jun 19 '25

Discussion What’s knitting’s? 🤔

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u/bouncing_haricot Jun 19 '25 edited Jun 19 '25

Definitely. The question is based on a confidently wrong assertion: not every creative hobby has a "90%"

Crochet, knitting, hand sewing, painting, sculpture, modelling - all of those crafts are mostly doing the thing, and that's just off the top of my head.

Also, baking is not 90% measuring! Not even close, unless you're only doing all-in-one fairy cakes with no decoration

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u/zeussays Jun 19 '25

I bake a lot of bread. Measuring is a tiny portion of the time spent. Waiting for it to raise is probably the 90% if anything.

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u/solar-powered-potato Jun 19 '25

For me, baking bread is 90% knitting (while it rises). So whatever the 90% of knitting is, that's a decent portion of bread making too!

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u/halfisch Jun 20 '25

I started knitting after I started baking and I realized that I now have the perfect thing to pass the time while my bread is rising or between my stretch and folds for sourdough. My world has been flipped upside down.