I did pull out the stalled "Color Bar Blanket" (I cannot quickly find someone else's finished version of this on line to link to, but this is a pattern using solid-color granny squares arranged so it looks like the old CMYK television test pattern).

I made a couple more blocks of the "medium blue" color (there is a pale blue - well, cyan, really, is what it's supposed to be, and a navy blue). I've decided to try to complete all the blocks needed of a color before moving on to the next, doing them scattershot, working on whatever color I "felt" like gave the sense of less progress being made.

I also chose a different green from my stash than the one I had bought - the one I originally bought had too yellowish of a tone (I had limited color choices) and really clashed with the magenta, which it would be next to. The new green is still yellowish (wool-ease in "Avocado"), but it's closer to a true green so it works better.

I'm thinking of it now as my "No one expects the Digital Transition!" blanket.

(And yes, that is a Monty Python reference. I am such a big geek). Because apparently, no one does, or so the networks seem to think. The ad campaign to remind people that they either need (a) a new tv (b) cable or satellite or (c) a converter box is every bit as ubiquitous and, if possible, even more annoying than the political ads during election season. (The 17th of February - when it is set to happen - cannot come fast enough for me).


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It occurs to me that maybe my car (which will hopefully be all fixed today) and my computer (which is now at the computer doctor getting an adware-ectomy and hopefully, a new virus-protection enhancement) maybe got jealous of my piano and broke so they could get a little attention.

Yes, yes, they're inanimate objects. But still, I am very suspicious of them breaking right now.