Attempt at a swatch (a thought)

Well, all I can say is "Thanks, blog! You gave me an idea".  The inside-out swatch looks a little more obviously 3-colour than the right-side-out swatch.  So, perhaps I should knit myself a little swatch with the background being blue and the foreground being grey and see if I don't like it better.  

I prefer the background to be steady as a rock and the foreground to play games, but I clearly can't always get what I want.  I always think that the narrower bit is the pattern and the wider bit is the background.

Let's see where this one leads.  I think that if I convince myself that I'm trying something like grey rocks in blue water I might be able to live with an undulating background.