Those Swatches we Love to Hate, or is it Hate to Love

I don't know what I'd do without swatches - nothing ever comes out right without them (sometimes nothing comes out right with them but at least I feel better if I've made one first).


My swatches and samples seem to end up on bulletin boards. I love bulletin boards and love mingling swatches with family photos, notes etc.

Swatches are memories of all the things I've made for someone else. It's like the heart of the project lingers here.

There's the ones I did for Sue's cotton sweater, and Kaffe Fassett's Persian poppies, the fantastic stitch pattern I invented -- oh and the lovely lace bookmark Sue made me too pretty to use is there.

And below in orange tweed is the pattern I used last year for a baby kimono sweater and christmas stocking mini samples.

What do you do with your swatches?