KnittingFool

I present the latest swatchbox crop: 

•  Pineapple - bobble-like
• Bells and Bell-Ropes - bells are just modified leaves
• Joyous Stripes - great way to use left over yarn.  The pattern calls for five colors, but there is no need to restrict the colors to five.
• Embossed Bell - this is a pleat effect.  I wonder what this would look like if it were done in some extreme variation — instead of cast-on 8 stitches, cast-on 24 stitches and do secreases on all rows after that.
• Fuchsia - variation on a bell pattern.
• Mrs. Hunter’s Lace - not lace by my standards.  This is a gathered stitch followed by a yarnover.
• Star Cluster - a more extreme version of the gathered stitch paired with a double yarnover.
• Peacock’s Tail - rack ‘em up.  It looks like a set of pool balls more than a peacock’s tail.
• Quatrefoil Eyelet - simple eyelet, easy
• Fractured Lattice - more interesting that the simple symmetric lattice patterns.
• Zigzag Eyelet - simple eyelet, easy
• Dots and Dashes II - boring, why bother.
• Shell Mesh - open work that looks almost unsturctured.  Too sloppy to please me.
• Berry in a Box - structured and lacy with good texture.
• Pine Tree I - this is a like a mix of open work with a cable-like effect.  Would work well as a panel with one or two repeats of the pattern.
• Pine Tree II - similar to Pine Trees I except with a little less depth in the pattern becuase it is using a stockinette stitch background.
• Lily of the Valley - this is a version of the old standby that includes bobbles, openwork and lots of increase/decrease shaping.  May work best as a single panel rather than an all-over pattern.
• Dragon Skin - good use fo increase decrease shaping to create a pleasing surface.
• Wave and Shield - interesting, highly textured pattrn that looks somewhat like a cable.
• Openwork Knit Hourglass - good openwork, lacy pattern. 
• Openwork Purl Hourglass - simlar to the knit version of this pattern; the purl version has a little more depth.
• Filligree I - this results in a highly textured fabric with the appearance of rib waves. 
• Candle Flames - this is a beautiful version of an over-all leaf pattern.
• Syncopated Brioche - this is brioche used to create a checkered effect. 
• Embossed Diamond - this is a minimalist version of the leaf pattern.
• Shell Cross - open work with depth.
• Closely-wrapped Stitch - this stitch results in a subtle diagonal pattern across the fabric.
• Double Wing Openwork - this results in an cable-like pattern with a few eyelets at the base of each ‘wing.’
• Double Wing - almost the same as the Double Wing Openwork, lacks the eyelets.
• Bobbles - a basic bobble on garter stitch background.
• Long Stitch - this results in an overall pattern of flattened diamond shapes.
• Openwork Bobble - bobbles surrounded by eyelet diamonds.
• Blackberry Bobble - groups bobbles to emulate the shape of berries or clusters of grapes.
• Embossed Leaf II - this is a simple version of the leaf pattern.
• Jumping Eyelets - this results in narrow columns of alternating eyelets.
• Puff - this is a loose bobble.
• Waterfall - this results in columns of diagonally arranged eyelets.
• Welting Fantastic - this pattern uses increases and decreases to make garter stitch waves.