why people who work in small little fabric shops are so unbelievably full of themselves i dont quite understand. all they do is sell it, they didn't make it or design it and they probably can't afford to buy it either! the first store we turned up at told as they only gave out swatches before 12 noon - it was 3 minuets past. the next shop told us not to touch ANYTHING, and "couldn't" provide us with a price for swatches. we eventually found a shop who realised that despite us being students we weren't actually vermin! we bought bags of swatches it was £2 a bag and you got about 6 swatches per bag so we got all our swatches in one go!