Dragging pattern to swatch menu...

Hi! I'd LOVE some quick help!
Normally I can create a pattern and have excess hanging off of my board and just drag and drop it to the swatches and it creates a swatch. For some reason it's not working! I'm on a deadline for a customer and everytime I drag it to the swatched palette, it just dings and won't work. Anyone know what's wrong?
I have a bounding box in the back with no stroke or fill like I usually do - not sure what's going on!?!?
thanks so much!

I have it set to show all swatches, yes. I just tried the define pattern as you suggested and it said, "Patterns cannot contain anything painted in a pattern" but I didn't paint anything!?!?
Thank you for your help!

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