Stop dreading and start loving the swatching process! A joyful invitation to be more playful with colors, needle sizes, yarn weight, and textures. It’s just a swatch after all! A fun and improvisational way to learn about color dynamics and the surprising ways you can “break” the rules with terrific outcomes. By staying in the process and out of the results, you’ll discover how much you can learn when the only goal is curiosity. Bring an assortment of your favorite yarns, a range of needle sizes, and a what if? mindset to play, experiment, and even fall in love with the swatching process.

Erin Lee Gafill is a museum-exhibited artist, author, and award winning teacher dedicated to helping others awaken their creative spirit. Her fearless use of color in her paintings and textiles was profoundly shaped by her uncle (and sometime baby-sitter) designer Kaffe Fassett.  

Erin and Kaffe spent fifteen years of stolen weeks painting and knitting side-by-side. These works—both paintings and textiles—were celebrated in their coffee table book, Color Duets, and featured at the Monterey Museum of Art in 2021.
Erin teaches creativity workshops both online and in person in Mexico, Italy, and Big Sur, California.

She is the author of the inspirational memoir, Drinking from a Cold Spring, a Little Book of Hope; Jane Gallatin Powers, a California Modernist; and Color Duets.

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Bring an assortment of your favorite yarns, a range of needle sizes, and a what if? mindset to play, experiment, and even fall in love with the swatching process.