I'm curious. How do other weavers organize their samples? Probably more important, do you have a mechanism or trick for resurfacing the samples you have archived when you need them? Have Jane and staff written a blog post someone can point me to?

I am not the right person to answer this....🤣 because I throw them in a bin and forget about them, mostly. I have only been weaving for a couple of years and most of my "samples" are a pile of mistakes that I would rather never resurfaced.

I would love some advice on this too. I am like Deb, and all of my samples are in a bin in a big chest, so it is hard to pull them out and look at them. But I would love to design more of my own weaving, and having organized and ready access to samples is key. I have been thinking about organizing them in some sort of portfolio, but the problem is that they vary quite a lot in size. Some are small squares, others are scarf length.

At least I have all of my samples labeled with sticky labels, but that is the extent of my organization. Organization is the bane of my weaving. I am not great with keeping project notes either!

Forgot to add, if either of you are on Ravelry, there was a good discussion about this a couple of months back.

https://www.ravelry.com/discuss/weave-with-jane-stafford/4305151/26-50#38

Smaller samples that I generate as part of my own weaving projects - I usually sample for 15-20" at the beginning of a warp, and wet finish the fabric different ways so I know what I'm doing - I keep in sheet protectors with all sorts of notes* about the yarns, the draft the sett, shrinkage, etc. These go into wide binders labeled by the range of years they were woven in. I use these a lot when I'm planning later projects with the same yarns or drafts. But the samples we're weaving here with Jane are sooo much bigger!

*at least, that's my plan.