This is what the dull grey swatch (which I took off the needles last night) looks like:
If I work it, work it, work it, I can take a picture that looks like this:
More attractive, sure. Still dull and grey. I think that photographing knitting with a very (very) short depth of field is a sure-fire way to get an attractive picture. It's a cliche by now, to be sure, but there is a reason why people take arty pictures of their knitwork in this fashion. It draws in the eye to the detailed stitchery and yet you still get the impression of all of that luscious, fluffy out-of focus stuff.
The other option I have is to frame it interestingly or position it interestingly (we're letting it be a given that the dull grey thing itself is manifestly NOT interesting).
The final thing I might do is to give it a really lovely background. That option wasn't available to me this morning, but I thought I'd mention it here as another way things that are dull as ditchwater can be used to generate photographs you'd want to look at.
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