The Stitcher's Problem

Although, this applies to crochet as much as cross-stich, to be fair.

Anyway, the problem is that you can't just do the thing. You need something else happening as well. Maybe you need podcasts, or music on or to be listening to audiobooks or even dictating your future novel.

I watch TV. and anime, and films and movies and anything else I can get my grubby little mitts on, if the mood takes me.

The reason this is a problem is a) the inability to sit down and craft without suitable secondary-activity material (e.g. a new show to binge) available and b) for long projects, you can watch or listen to quite a lot of stuff. Like, a lot. My cross stitch tends to the large, complicated side with 10s or 100s of thousands of stitches so I can watch a lot of TV in the months or years it takes to finish a piece.

The results of this? I run out of things I want to watch. (Not, like, entirely, but things that I'm in the mood for genre/type/trope-wise.)

And then I watch anything that'll tick the boxes needed so I can get to crafting.

So if you're looking for someone who has seen xyz copycat isekai anime or that trashy cookie-cutter sci-fi movie or whatever, I have probably watched it whilst crafting. In fact, it's from watching anything even vaguely academy-anime-like that I got my favourite semi-original character. But that's a post for a separate tag!