Happy 2010 everyone!  I hope everyone’s started off well!

Mine started off with “burning of the swatch”.  If you are on Twitter at all, you will hear designers talking about swatchfires.  What is a swatchfire, you ask?

It all started one day when someone mentioned that their gauge swatch for a design “lied” to them.  You know, you do a gauge swatch to painstakingly make sure your garment will be the right size, then wouldnt you know it, the actual garment’s gauge turns out totally different.. even with the exact same yarn and hook!  So we talked about burning the original swatches in a “swatchfire”.

Then Tracie Barrett (@TracieCrochets on Twitter) Mentioned having a New Year’s Eve Swatchfire so that we all could appease the fiber gods for the New Year.  The thought behind it was that if we burnt the swatches now.. all our swatches in 2010 would be truthful and kind to all designers.

So.. I thought I would share my Swatchfire with all of you:)