I am using a medium light blue yarn for my cathedral cable. I will be knitting other blocks as well. I was wondering. What colors go well with blue? :think:
On the color wheel, the complimentary color to blue is orange.
It depends on what tone you want to set. Cream and tan look good with light blue, but red and white also go well.
no the complimentary color to blue is red. I think purple goes well. Any other opinions.
To follow RKs great suggestion from the color wheel there are several options:
A monochromatic scheme of green, blue, purple
Or:
Blue with yellow and green
Blue with purple and red
I’m fond of light blue with peach (an orange variant) and cream, as well as Ingrid’s blue/tan/cream.
There’s also blue/rose/white, a paler variation on Ingrid’s red/white/blue.
There are so many options, I love playing with color selection!
Have fun selecting yours!
Any other opinions?
Oh Charlotte, colors can be so much fun, can’t they? A bit of a variant on one of your favorites, I love a periwinkle blue with a pale peach, one of my absolute faves 
Yes, indeedy! Periwinkle with that little bit of purple in the blue is just divine next to a blushy pale peach. Sigh, scrumptious!
Purple and Green go good with light blue and so does dark blue and dark purple. What colors go good with these pairs?
Purple and Green
Purple and Dark blue
Purple and Dark purple
Green and Dark blue
Green and Dark purple
Dark blue and Dark purple :think:
To be more specific in terms of color, at least in my opinion, the most pleasing arrangements of color tend to be those that match in hue, then in tint, shade or tone. Again it depends on the effect you want. Take a look here to help you decide, then select the combination you like best.
Actually no, the complimentary color to blue IS orange.
Other combinations, and even multiple-color combinations may work/look good, but blue and orange are, strictly speaking, complimentary colors, as they are opposite one another on the color wheel.
Ultimately, only YOU can decide, what color(s) you like together.
but I don’t know so that is why I was wanting to ask you guys.
Hello Caters - I have a suggestion for you for picking out colors that will work together.
Find some fabric with a multitude of colors including the blue color you are using for your cathedral block. You want to make sure that it is a fabric that you really like and then purchase whatever the minimum yardage requirement is. This will give you colors that you know will work together, next of course is to find colored yarn that closely matches the colors in the fabric swatch.
You can be assured that your colors will work together, and this will help you to build confidence in color selection.
Hope this helps.
It does help but I want to think about this myself. I want all the yarn that I use to be soft such as I Love This Yarn. the 4 blocks adjacent to the blue will be analogous colors. the other ones might be analogous too. I am wanting an anlogous color scheme because I think that it will give me the most variety as well as look good. There will be a little bit of monochromatic but only a little.
What colors besides blue are analogous to purple(light) and green(also light) and for the dark blue and dark purple should I use the same colors but darker?
Try Googling analogous colors and looking at color wheels and things like that. You might be surprised at what you find. I think having other people tell you what to do with your creation would take most of the fun out of it. :???:
okay. As for the purple it is going to have adjacent to it blue(which I am already using), blue-violet, red-violet, and red(maybe pink would go better). As for the green it will also have blue(which I am using) but it will have blue green, yellow green, and yellow. should I use the same colors but perhaps a different shade for the dark blue and dark purple?
Hello Caters 
Well, all this talk of analogous colors positively makes my head spin :noway: Unfortunately, I cannot pick colors for you, but what I can do is share with you some of the ways I choose color.
I used to weave, and I would find a variegated yarn that I liked, and pick out yarns to match the colors in this yarn. Another technique I would use when planning to weave a project was I would use a card to do wraps around. I would be able to determine proportionately how much of each yarn I would want to use and even the order I wanted to use each yarn in.
Recently, while painting my home, I needed to recoat a bathroom cabinet. We had changed the colors of the walls and the trim to white and cream colors. It is amazing the different hues that are available in cream colors alone! While I was in the store, I had the two paint cards representing the white and cream colors that had been used, and then picked out a good sampling of paint cards and began holding them up one at a time next to the two paint cards. During this process, there was a cream color that seemed to really pop!
So basically I use my eyes to determine which colors I am going to use together. When I put colors alongside each other, I view them and I will know if they work for me, it is almost as though :figureditout: something goes off in my head. It is difficult to explain the sensation that I experience, but there it is.
I know nothing of color theory and I neither feel the need nor the desire to learn. I would rather be :knitting: It sounds as though you have a gorgeous blanket in mind, I do hope you will be able to choose colors that will work for you and can then move on to the next step in your creative process.
Hope this helps
I also will not pick colors for you. It’s a very personal choice. Another thing you can do is go to a paint store and look at the paint swatches, etc. 
Dark Pink and Purple will look fantastic with light blue. I have table mat in light blue and dark pink color, I love this combination of color.