Hello @knit-stich-witch, yes I do the very same thing! I found it really helped my concentration in lectures (I was usually knitting socks). The other problem I had was that other student were not engaging and participating in the discussions, they were always waiting for me to say something. I found that knitting helped me keep my mouth firmly shut.

I did start taking knitting to a set of meetings that I knew were going to be boring and fruitless. Whenever the meeting went off at a tangent I would hold up my knitting to show how much I had done. I still managed to complete a cardigan including sewing it up! (Needless to say, the meeting never accomplished its aim).