Here's where you need to have a good color selection of yarns at your fingertips. If you can take one color and use several shades or tints of it, you can get nice results. Monochromatic is defined as a color scheme using one base hue and its shades, tones and tints. Tints come from adding white, tones from adding gray and shades from adding black. This color wheel gives you an idea of what these combinations might look like. In both of the following designs, I've used a monochromatic theme...
