Create Pattern Swatch from Placed Image in Javascript

I need to create a large number of pattern swatches from some .jpg file on disk. I've figured out how to script the insertion of the .jpgs into my AI document as placed images:
     // Embed the image into the document.
     file = new File("MyImage.jpg");
     var document = app.activeDocument;
     var newPlaced = document.layers["swatches"].groupItems.createFromFile(file);
     newPlaced.name = "MyImage_Placed";
This works fine and the item shows up in the correct layer as an embedded image.
Now I want to create a PatternSwatch (I think) from that Image.
To create a new swatch the code starts out as:
     newSwatch = document.swatches.add();
     newSwatch.name = "MyImage_Swatch";
but now I'm stuck! How do I associate the new PlacedItem with the swatch I just created? I can see the swatch in the palette so I'm partway there.

When you say you would drag the image itself into the Swatch Palette and it would show the image itself? How would then use this swatch? Can you give an example of what you would apply a jpeg to as a swatch? The only palette that I can think of off the top of my head that you can drag a jpeg into and have the icon appear as the jpeg is the Symbols Palette. Is is possible that you were using the Symbols Palette in the past and not the Swatch Palette?

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> Okay, I am trying my hands at vector graphics and there
is something that I
> found that I really want to learn to do. I would like to
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> regular image and make it look like a type of cartoon.
>
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>
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> they have a cartoon look to them. How do I do this? Are
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