Color Inspiration

Here's a chart (turned sideways) from The Art of Color by Johannes Itten, illustrating the relative shades and tints of the twelve hues plus gray:

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And here is my "Garden Bed" afghan, part of a collection of pieces inspired by lessons of the color masters:
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 The motifs are worked in the round, joining as you go, in a worsted weight yarn. 

I'm not satisfied with the big holes between the shapes, so I'm going to try it in a dk weight yarn, which would require more motifs, but make the spaces between the motifs smaller. I do like the way the colors flow in an organic way without looking like an obvious rainbow. It looks gorgeous laid out on a bed, hence the name "Garden Bed," a little pun.