Last spring, honorary crackpot Aunt Barb stayed overnight at my place, and I showed her some of my knitting. She went ga-ga over the swatch for my Hillswick Lumber sweater, and told me that it was such a piece of art that I needed to frame it and hang it on the wall.
Several months and a few trips to local big-box craft stores later, I’ve framed the swatch.
I was considering hanging it up in my bedroom, but I think I’ll actually take it in to work and hang it up there.
Details: I bought a shadowbox frame, and piece of mat board – I had to go to a couple of stores before I found pieces of mat board without holes (for photos) available at a decent (i.e., suitably cheap for a crackpot project) price. I then used regular thread and tacked the swatch onto the mat board around the edges of the knitted portion of the swatch so the texture of the yarn ends is still present.
It really looks great! Barb was right. Framing it was a good idea.