gnomi: (knitting_chicken)
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Procrastiknitting: Knitting in order to avoid another project.

Usage Example:

I spent last night procrastiknitting instead of dealing with the paperwork I have to do.

Date: 2008-11-06 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] madknits.livejournal.com
Oh, so that's what I'm doing when I'm knitting instead of working on my paper.

Thanks, that's good to know.

Date: 2008-11-06 05:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
Yes, indeedy. Aren't you glad it has a name now? :-)

Date: 2008-11-06 05:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cbpotts.livejournal.com
I like it!

Procrascrochet doesn't have the same ring to it, I'm afraid.

Procrochet? Or have we lost too much of the time wasting element and instead entered the realm of REALLY good afghans?

Date: 2008-11-06 05:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikchik.livejournal.com
How about procrochenating?

Date: 2008-11-06 05:57 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cbpotts.livejournal.com
YES!!!!!!!!!!!

You win an internet!

Date: 2008-11-06 05:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rikchik.livejournal.com
Yay! I've always wanted one.

Date: 2008-11-06 06:48 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] elaine-brennan.livejournal.com
I seem to be indulging in this activity right now (with this brief break for LJ!)

Date: 2008-11-06 07:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nwl.livejournal.com
Love it!

Date: 2008-11-06 05:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
I like [profile] rikchik's suggestion. :-)

Date: 2008-11-06 05:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bbennett.livejournal.com
You are just brilliant. :)

Date: 2008-11-06 05:58 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
Aww, thanks.

::blushes::

Date: 2008-11-06 06:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thudthwacker.livejournal.com
That was very nearly exactly what I was about to comment, so I shall instead just agree with you.

Date: 2008-11-06 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
::blushes harder::

Date: 2008-11-06 06:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] i-beckygardens.livejournal.com
Very clever!

Date: 2008-11-06 06:07 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Date: 2008-11-06 06:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lordavon.livejournal.com
I'm at the point where I procastiknit about procrastiknitting.

Date: 2008-11-06 08:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
I know this problem, too -- the "I don't want to work on *that* knitting project; I know! I'll work on *this* one!" issue.

Date: 2008-11-06 06:45 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] 1-rhiannon-1.livejournal.com
I love it! :D

Date: 2008-11-06 08:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
Thank you!!

Date: 2008-11-06 07:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] jenwrites.livejournal.com
I've been procrasticrossstitching a lot lately. "Should I work out? Write? Get more done on my brother's wedding present while getting some backlog off of the TiVo?" The option that involves the sofa always wins.

Date: 2008-11-06 08:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
Indeed! This is why I end up procrastiknitting a lot.

Date: 2008-11-06 07:13 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] ayoub.livejournal.com
Good word!

Date: 2008-11-06 08:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
Thank you!

Date: 2008-11-06 07:22 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] violetcheetah.livejournal.com
this seems so perfect, and so you, that i have a feeling of deja vu, as if i have heard you use the word. are you -sure- you just came up with it?

Date: 2008-11-06 08:15 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
I *think* so. I make up a lot of portmanteau words (such as referring to [profile] beckyfeld as my pharmacister), so it probably sounds like other things I've said before.

Date: 2008-11-06 07:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] nwl.livejournal.com
There is a flier in my local grocery store, advertising knitting classes. The flier lists the various health benefits of knitting. It also says, "Knitting is the new yoga." I think of you whenever I see the flier.

Date: 2008-11-06 08:16 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
A woman that I've known for a while just found out that I knit. I couldn't figure out how it was that she hadn't known previously (seeing that I almost always have knitting with me), but then I realized that she sees me most often on the one day a week I don't knit -- the Sabbath.

Date: 2008-11-06 10:59 pm (UTC)
From: (Anonymous)
It works especially well because it is a change of only one vowel sound. Is procrastiknotting the macrame version?

Date: 2008-11-07 12:05 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
Oooh, I like that!

(By the way, who are you?)

Date: 2008-11-06 11:35 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chanaleh.livejournal.com
Good thing I don't knit. I have enough trouble these days procrastichatting. >:-)

Date: 2008-11-07 12:06 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
Indeed. Procrastichatting (on line or in person) is a big problem for me at times.

Date: 2008-11-07 12:49 am (UTC)
fauxklore: (Default)
From: [personal profile] fauxklore
I am entirely stuck on an equivalent for nalbinding. But since that's a craft that maybe 10 other people on the planet actually indulge in, it would probably not get enough use to be worth creating.

Perhaps the generic form is "procrastineedling"?

Date: 2008-11-07 02:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
I like that. Though "procrastineedling" could also be "vaguely annoying someone to avoid doing other work," as well. :-)

Date: 2008-11-07 01:26 am (UTC)
ext_6909: (Yarn Pirate Snooch)
From: [identity profile] gem225.livejournal.com
I proscrastiknit so much, but you knew that. *g* Great word-coining!

Date: 2008-11-07 02:06 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
Thank you! I enjoy procrastiknitting as well. I did a bunch of it this week.
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Date: 2008-11-10 01:46 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
Thanks!

Date: 2008-11-09 09:04 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shimshonit.livejournal.com
Way to go, Babsie! (Are you on holideh?)

Date: 2008-11-10 01:47 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gnomi.livejournal.com
I'm working all week, but I knit on the T and other fun places, and that allows me to get lots and lots done. :-)

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