Attempt at a swatch (colour I)

The bad yarn shopping I described yesterday didn't dissuade me from trying a swatch.  I knew before I cast on that I had muffed it, but I thought I'd put the yarn to work anyway.  

In truth, there are a couple of things I like about the swatch.  I like the pattern.  I like the way the tiny stitches look.  

However, you wouldn't know that there were two colours besides grey in that, would you?  It sort of gets paler at the tips of the stars, but basically, that could be some bad lighting in the photograph or something.

Even the relatively big blocks of colour in the cuff keep their secret pretty well.  It's not worth the effort of having an extra colour.  Not if it's going to be my little secret, anyway.  "Not many people know this, but there are three colours in this sweater."  It's not clever.