Usually, I don’t do knitting swatches. Life’s too short sez I. But for this yarn I really want to make sure I get the pattern and stitch just right. First was just plain ol stockingette, nice but I wanted some texture. So then I tried a bamboo stitch (new one for me), pretty but maybe too much texture. This picture is my third swatch! And is from The Yarn Harlot’s One-Row Scarf.
The yarn is some of my most recent handspun and I (for once) am happy with how it came out. I drafted it so that there are long stretches of as-solid-as-possible color and then Navajo plied it to get gradual fades from one color to the next.
Now that I’m looking at all three swatches, I am (groan) leaning towards plain old stockingette. I like the longer color bands and that you can see the blends so well. But a stockingette scarf? Meh. In any case, I’ve knitted all I’ve spun up and can’t do much until I spin more. 
The end result I’m going for is a neck-tube scarf that folds over in front, like this. But the color bands just weren’t long enough to go around and around.