Swatch Experiment V

With my successful background swatch, I had discovered that I didn't like pale foreground colours, but I did like to pull out the blue from the background more than the pink.  So, naturally, I next chose to try a darker blue.  I picked a blue a couple of hue steps away from the blues in my background.  

The outcome is pretty good, I think.  It's a bit blurry at the edges, though.  The foreground colour is quite close to the background at its darkest.  It isn't identical to the background and if I look closely, I can still make out the pattern, but it's not easy to do.  

I like the effect.  I like the way that the pattern, as well as the glowing pink, gently rolls out in the middle of the swatch.  I can imagine a successful sweater built on these principles.  However, it's not what I have in mind right now.  I want my careful two-colour knitting to show!  I want the pattern to be as important as colour in the overall impression the sweater makes on the observer.