I'd thought about that - I've got two afghans in the making, one for some friends, one for my mom, and another one or two planned after that, but they don't have to be ready until sometime next year, and it takes me about 2-3 months to do a full bed size one. I do occassionally bring my crocheting to events, though I always feel a bit bad doing so because usually the yarn I'm working with is clearly not period, both in composition and color.

I once knew how to knit, but all that ever came of it was a scarf for one of my rubber snakes. I find the needles without hooks a lot harder to manipulate for some reason.