Explore what you like, it is no pleasure to work with someone else’s choice if you hate it.

Play with colours. Before knitting the colourjacket which my sister is wearing I spent a long time
playing with the balls of wool I had dyed. I arranged them in different ways - dark and light,
neutrals and bright colours, greens/ yellows and browns/ oranges.

Don’t underestimate neutrals - greys, browns can serve as effective contrasts to brighter colours.

Make parallels with another field of interest. Think of colours as flavours in a meal,
hot and spicy reds and oranges, cool and refreshing lime green and turquoise. Plan your colour
scheme like a menu. Or notes in music with major and minor, bass and soprano notes with which
you compose your symphony or rock music.