Get-Acquainted Swatch

You have a new to you yarn that you'd like to knit with and where do you start? Now the ball band may gave you some information about the suggested needles to use for hand knitting and what stitches you might get, but as machine knitters, this doesn't tell us anything. This doesn't tell us what tension to turn on the tension dial of your machine.

Let's spend some time today playing with a get-acquainted swatch.