I believe it is important to swatch for fun as well as for gauge. Over the years I’ve knit, crocheted, and woven many different swatches. This project will attempt to organize them in a way that may be useful for others and hopefully inspire more swatching. I ask for patience while I build these tools.
Notebook (blog post) Entries
swatch project: oink pigments mystic
Today I’ll share what I learned while swatching Oink Pigments Mystic. This is a relatively new yarn, it debuted last summer. It’s my new favourite and absolutely delicious to knit and crochet. Mystic is a 3-ply DK weight yarn and is 100%…
swatching & schedule
Instead of writing here, the time that I normally set aside for this has been devoted instead to swatching. Here’s the resulting pile of some of what I’ve worked up over the past several weeks: This includes yarns from Anzula, Artyarns, Lorna’s…
swatching, storage
Now that my September Swatch Project has ended, the problem to solve is: how do I store them? It’s a problem I need to find an answer to. I’m not thrilled with my current solution for the Anzula swatches. First some personal…
