Listen While You Work

In almost every craft related social media group or forum I belong to, someone always asks, “What’s everyone listening to while you work?”

I’m not going to literally give recommendations of book series to listen to in this post - but if you would like some, check out our favorites list on the Recommended Reading page. Currently, the list contains a number of series that have gotten our team through lengthy projects. It will be updated over time, so bookmark it and check back. We’ll be adding more suggestions as we find them.

I’ve noticed that my taste in literature tends toward mysteries. If it is quirky, historically based, and cosy-ish, not as separate categories but as a single category, that’s my next series.

Ironically, my first true audiobook experience was listening to the entire “Three Musketeers” by Alexandre Dumas anthology while I was sewing a coat for my annual trip to Chicago for Thanksgiving. Highly recommended, BTW; but be warned that while it is so much fun and comical in the first three books, the last three (spoiler alert!), get downright serious and gut-wrenchingly tragic. No wonder they stop early-on in the saga, or simply rewrite the ending, in Hollywood versions!

Recovery took me about 5 months and a number of more light-hearted book series including a christian youth audiobook series “Hagenheim” by Melanie Dickerson, to get over the trauma. But after that, I was hooked on audiobooks!

Gift yourself an Audible membership - or get your craft widow/er to get it for you. Audiobooks make the time fly! And you will be amazed at the things you learn while you listen.

For me, listening to audiobooks while I craft, is not distracting, in a weird way, they help you detach from everything but the craft.