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Last night I finished cutting my blues and then I did what comes next. (I know you’re all at the edge of your seats here) While pondering two other completely different projects, I tried to make a nice gradation of the blues I had cut. I needed one that used about 48 fabrics, and Boy George, that’s what I got.

Now, what the heck am I doing pondering other projects while playing with these two inch squares of fabric? It’s all about:

Preemptive multitasking is task in which a computer operating system uses some criteria to decide how long to allocate to any one task before giving another task a turn to use the operating system. The act of taking control of the operating system from one task and giving it to another task is called preempting. A common criterion for preempting is simply elapsed time (this kind of system is sometimes called time sharing or time slicing). In some operating systems, some applications can be given higher priority than other applications, giving the higher priority programs control as soon as they are initiated and perhaps longer time slices.

So it’s not only about WHAT you’re going to do, but WHEN you’re going to do it, how LONG you’re going to do it and what AMOUNT of resources (your time and effort) you’re going to give it.

While I was getting this nice crisp definition for you, I ran across a link to something called “wall time“. This is not, despite what you might be thinking, the amount of time a quilt in progress hangs on the wall to be admired or despaired over. Or at least, not exactly!